Late last week, the Entertainment Consumers Association’s Facebook friends and members received a note from the ECA asking them to personalize and send this form letter to President Obama, outlining the merits of our hobby and urging him to stop saying “parents need to put away the videogames” anytime he addresses moderation for America’s youth: [...]
Archive for July, 2009
Instant Replay
Posted in Marketing, Old school, The biz, tagged Capcom, Ico, Loom, LucasArts, Marvel Vs Capcom, PSN, Secret of Monkey Island, The Dig, The Last Guardian, Virtual Console, Xbox Live on July 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Last week, LucasArts announced they’d blow the dust off their venerable adventure games catalog, offering an ongoing selection of hits via Steam. Of course, gamers everywhere rejoiced, and the immediate questions were all positive: ‘what other platfroms will these be available on?’ and ‘what other classics will they release next?’ The announcement came on top [...]
the id and the ego
Posted in Culture, Old school, The biz, tagged adrian carmack, bethesda, DOOM, id software, john romero, PC games, zenimax on July 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve been meaning to write a reaction to last week’s sale of id Software to ZeniMax, but it’s honestly taken me this long to figure out how I felt about it, exactly. For anyone that was an avid gamer in the mid 90′s, id (and particularly the DOOM series) represented a very specific division between [...]
