Australian retailer GAME’s newest promotional tool, the suddenly-advertised-everywhere GameTV, went live this week.
Thank you GameTV. Thank you, uninformed Australian Media. It’s thanks to you that we get to pick between being an immature and irresponsible loser or someone so publicly inept that we are doomed to live a perverted existence in a sub-dungeon within our parent’s house.
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Nothing. It's up to the gamers to stop consuming content from companies that they don't agree with.
How do you know if you agree with it or not unless you play it? Which without conventions forces gamers to rely on trailers. Perhaps Demos should be made more frequently. But companies need to do better as well.
But is that not what they have now? Tons of gameplay or are you talking about watching actual gamers play it versus the trailers and streams? The big issue is that some companies pay streamers and influencers and they create content but for me; that is hardly a fair, unbiased, and factual look at a game.
They usually are attached to the money sadly. It would be nice to have gamers in charge but you have so much money invested that business people are needed. Hence the issue; you need people who know business but are also gamers who know have an eye to the community. It sounds simple in theory that if you give gamers quality games that they want to play; money will be made. But that is not always so.
Marie Dealessandri speaks to Borislav Slavov and Gustavo Santaolalla about “the new golden age of games music”.
A famous actor from Starship Troopers has showered praise on Helldivers 2 and said he is open to the idea of playing General Brasch.
Well based off most of the post on n4g. I think they think we are about 10-13 years old.
This reminds me of the Dead Space "Your mom will hate this game" campaign. Gaming has come a long way in being accepted as a legitimate art-form... Then stuff like this comes up and sets us back. Disappointing, to say the least.
The sad thing is, I can sort of see why the media gets the wrong impression about gaming and gamers. The gaming industry doesn't exactly help give a positive, mature image of gaming. Especially when it comes to things like E3. What WOULD the average (non hardcore) gamer think when they walk into an expo like E3 and be bombarded by things like booth babes, giant boobs, and over-the-top violence? I'm not saying these things shouldn't be in games at all, but seeing boob jiggling and ultra violence being treated a "main attraction" doesn't give off the best impression. Heck, what does the (non-gaming) media and public think of gaming when they see these things? It doesn't exactly give off the best impression of gaming and the people who play games. :(
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*hits princess over the head with a stagment douchebag*
Shhhhh