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There's a new auction site out there that'll be of interest to video game collectors:
http://www.thevideogameswap.com/
Those of you who missed it will be glad to know that the California violent video game law has been blocked by a preliminary injunction from Judge Whyte.
Some details are beginning to appear on the Nintendo Revolution:
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php?aid=13482
The short version would be "small, simple, and cheap".
Judges have blocked two more violent video game laws:
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php?aid=13409 http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php?aid=12883
Clinton and Lieberman have proposed a bill to ban the sale of M-rated games to minors:
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php?aid=13330
Of course, similar bills have been shot down over and over by the courts due to the First Amendment protections granted to video games, books, and movies, but why let that get in the way of a good publicity stunt? There's a 2008 presidential campaign to think of.
It looks like European publisher SCi is up for sale, just months after buying out Eidos:
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php?aid=12472 http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php?aid=12511
Could buyer's remorse be to blame, or is it simply that they've received offers too tempting to ignore?
Nintendo will officially unveil Revolution on May 9, at a pre-E3 briefing:
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php?aid=13277
Sony plans to release a graphical mud using a revolutionary new business model that's exactly the same as that used by numerous text and graphical multiplayer games in the past:
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php?aid=12627
Ken Kutaragi of Sony says that the PlayStation 3 could run games at 120 FPS:
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php?aid=12629
Of course, it's not clear what possible use this could be, other than as a corporate penis-waving exercise. Nor is it clear just how much physics processing and graphical quality could be achieved while running at this speed--but who cares about trade-offs?
The Europeans are on another banning kick:
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php?aid=12597
Mark Rein of Epic pours cold water on Nintendo and that goofy Revolution controller:
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php?aid=12577
Nintendo's Iwata says that the Revolution will be a "complete failure" if it doesn't outsell the Nintendo GameCube:
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php?aid=12530
This, of course, strongly implies that the GameCube was a complete failure--a fact most of us have been aware of for some time now. Then again, some complete failures keep pushing forward--Howard Dean, anyone?
You just can't make this stuff up. It seems a former Gizmondo exec had some convictions relating to his connections to the Swedish mafia:
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php?aid=12547
I didn't even know they had a mafia in Sweden. I thought they just had Muslim street gangs and bad poker players.
The ESA has released a survey of existing studies on the impact of video games on the minds of children:
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php?aid=12521