Here in my part of the northeast U.S., we digital new media fanatics are waiting anxiously, impatiently – and now jealously – for the fiber optic answer to cable TV. Our fiber option here is called “FiOS,” from Verizon. It tempts us with not just outstanding digital TV improvements, but Internet speeds faster than cable. As to the jealously part, that’s due to FiOS TV’s many technological advances. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette TV critic Rob Owen says our leading local cable provider’s on-screen menu designs look “like they were created on a Commodore 64; FiOS TV’s menus have a comparatively crisp, clean look.”
Interestingly, FiOS TV…
On Tuesday, National Geographic announced that it will be expanding its business into video games in an effort to reach its younger audience. The magazine hopes to have at four games released by next year.
This news comes at such a morbid time in the world of print media. National Geographic seems to be making moves to reach out to its younger readers. Instead of just watching things deteriorate, the picturesque magazine is putting forth some innovative effort. Who knows what the developers have in store, but I can imagine game plots ranging in anything from escaping the Amazon to leading a…
Right on the heels of the news that Barack Obama spent $44,000 on ads inside of video games this month, Gamasutra is examining the effects that video games have on the election process.
The GOP has released games with both the 2004 and the 2008 elections. In 2004, it was a game called Pork Invaders, featuring a McCain ship flying around shooting vetoes at pig “aliens. In 2008, it’s a game called Tax Invaders,
Tax Invaders cast taxes in the role of the alien enemy and George W. Bush as the executive-hero who would save the people from them, an apt characterization of conservative…
