Events, Gamer Culture, Nintendo Wii
Any charitable event is a good thing. But a charitable event that raises over $10,000 is a great thing – especially if it’s run by three young guys from their couch.
Video game movies: a taboo subject for any gamer. Merely utter the possibility of an upcoming cross-medium production, and you may find yourself bombarded with groans, satiric speculations, and hands reaching to the heavens yelling, “Why?!” All because of the shadowy stigma that has haunted the video game film genre: they’re garbage. While one name has become almost synonymous with bad VG-film adaptations, Uwe Boll is not responsible for all of them.
Gamer Culture, World of WarCraft
I can still vividly remember the quiet hilarity brewing up within my seven-year old brain as I watched my father (then forty-two years old) attempt to play Super Mario Bros for the Super NES. While he had the basic, and admittedly simple, control scheme down, he kept violently tilting the controller to the right every time Mario jumped. I guess in his head the game would somehow take pity on his valiant efforts to get Mario over that last bob-omb, or maybe he presciently predicted the advent of the Wii. Whatever the reason, my young mind found his total lack of controller competence very amusing; and this was back when games only made use of six buttons.
Oh video game movies, how we hate you. It seems for every one decent movie based on a video game we get ten direct-to-DVD bargain bin stinkers. Sure, some of them are good for a few laughs (with Bob Hoskins as Mario, how could you not?), but it’s a rare occasion indeed when one even manages to turn a profit, let alone end up any good.
Radar Group, a venture capital-funded start-up, hopes to change all that. Co-founded last year by CEO Jim Perkins, the company seeks to manage original content intended for your favorite consoles and theaters alike.
