Posts Tagged ‘Video Games’

Green Day

Green Day have diversified into video games and even a hit Broadway musical but the Californian bands ferocious live show is still the best way to experience their pop-punk tunes.

How Green is My Game?

In recognition of Earth Day, which is later this month, we take an investigative look into the environmental impact of video games at all states of their development cycle. In this report, we look to several experts on the matter including Greenpeace and the Natural Resources Defense Council, to ultimately help us answer the question "how green is my game?"


Video Game Review: Zombie Apocalypse

Braaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaains… If video games have proven anything over the past year or so, it’s that people love killing that which is already dead. In fact, pretty much every week you’ll find Left 4 Dead and Call of Duty: World at War (with its highly popular Nazi Zombies mode) among the top 10 games played on Xbox Live. Even Halo 3 offers a “Living Dead” playlist where players become infected when killed. Well, we can now add the recently released Zombie Apocalypse to the list, as t


The Manchurian President

Thanks to Little Green Footballs , here's a preview of Comrade Dear Leader Barack Obama's speech with which he will indoctrinate our youth with Socialist-Leninist-Maoist ideology. Clearly, the Comrade President's exhortation to school children to turn off the television is a lightly-veiled attempt to subvert Fox News. The President's disdain for video games -- dominated by PSP2's-- is a dog whistle assault on Japan's noble and admirable Imperial legacy and its current capitalist system. A


Governement Reveals Video Nasty Blunder

Do you remember the thrill of watching a ‘video nasty’ in the 80’s, knowing it was against the law? Well, it turns out it was legal after all. To the Conservative and Labour’s embarrassment, the Home Office never notified the European Commission of the 1984 Video Recordings Act, meaning it was never properly enacted. The mistake came to light as Whitehall were updating the law to include video games, leaving the system designed to protect the under-18s from violent and explicit material


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