Entertainment Consumers Association (ECA) president Hal Halpin will appear on the CBS Evening News to discuss the Grand Theft Auto IV launch.The program airs at 6:30 PM Eastern. More details to follow...beemoh: Miyamoto seems to have been awardsed something- he was just trending worldwide on Twitter, and all the tweets were in what looked like Spanish.05/23/2012 - 7:07am
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Michael Chandra: Think so yes, since the judge didn't allow them to add ips at will. :P05/23/2012 - 6:23am
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Conster: TPB works fine for me (didn't work the day of the verdict). Apparently they switched IP addresses, meaning Brein has to re-sue to have that added to the block-this list?05/22/2012 - 8:16pm
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ZippyDSMlee: sigh...was playing anice game of empire at war and then boom crash...hope new oparts come soon ><05/22/2012 - 1:17pm
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Andrew Eisen: I still say the particular word or phrase the MPAA uses to describe what it's fighting against is the least of its problems.05/22/2012 - 1:12pm
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ZippyDSMlee: MPAA finally admits piracy is not the same as stealing, kinda http://tinyurl.com/chtcf8p05/22/2012 - 11:55am
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ddrfr33k: @EZK Bwahahaha! @Michael: Yeah, several news sources have said that google DNS can bypass the TPB roadblocks.05/22/2012 - 11:38am
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Michael Chandra: Weird, I can still visit piratebay. Wonder if Google DNS is related to that, or I simply have an exotic ISP?05/22/2012 - 9:03am
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Lisa Pham: No harm done, E. Zachary Knight. :)05/22/2012 - 4:50am
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Uncharted NES: BSA Claims Half of PC Users Are Pirates- http://slashdot.org/palm/17/12/05/22/0051216_1.shtml05/21/2012 - 11:18pm
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E. Zachary Knight: Ah. Missed that. My mind just connected DDR3 with ddrfr33k and ran with it. Oh well.05/21/2012 - 10:12pm
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Lisa Pham: He also mentioned the game "Shadows of the damned" which is on PS305/21/2012 - 8:08pm
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E. Zachary Knight: ddrf33k, I think Zip is referring to computer hardware.05/21/2012 - 7:33pm
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ddrfr33k: @Zip: Excellent game. It's a trip.05/21/2012 - 7:09pm
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Lisa Pham: IanC - if you read/looked at the report (PDF and written) then you'd see where they failed and why. Some games have come close to passing and some have passed. The list of games evaluated. http://www.reclaimyourgame.com/content.php/18-RYG-Evaluations05/21/2012 - 5:49pm
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Andrew Eisen: Maybe I'll luck out and the Wii version won't have this retail exclusive DLC nonsense.05/21/2012 - 5:12pm
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ZippyDSMlee: Bought new guitar...trying to find a nice DDR3/mobo combo under 200$ sicne I need new ram thats 100$....fun times..... picked up shadows of the damned tho!!05/21/2012 - 4:56pm
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E. Zachary Knight: Yeah, that's how I feel about retail exclusive DLC too. ;)05/21/2012 - 3:37pm
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RedMage: That's what I started to figure too. They seem to have trouble coming up with an effective scare tactic. At one point they referred to it as "online looting" which just sounds stupid.05/21/2012 - 3:34pm
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E. Zachary Knight: Of all the sucky suckiness that ever sucked. Lego Batman 2 will suffer from sucky retailer exclusive DLC. Suck! http://tinyurl.com/ckq67vg05/21/2012 - 3:30pm
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Comments
It's appalling that the media just grabs the first moron they can find to say something stupid and use it to fuel their fear mongering. I've heard GTA 4 mentioned 200 times in the last 2 hours, it must be a REAL slow news day that they spend so much time on this evil game that's gonna kill us all.
http://www.nbc10.com/news/16051084/detail.html?dl=headlineclick
I don't know how it'll turn out, but I would consider it a step up from Faux News.
Sorry, it's just that it's relieving to find that we can get some mainstream coverage that supports gaming. Beware, Jack, your reign of retardation will end soon enough. BWA, HA, HA! (cough)
He's going on CBS, not FOX.
Yeah I think one would rather take the low ratings of the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric over the biasness that is Fox News.
Unbiased Brian Williams for the win. :)
I thought it was about as balanced as it'll get when it comes to the MSM.
Aren't news anchor people supposed to stay neutral when reporting the news?
That little No Thanks just irks me!!
Pretty short, though Hal did make some good points.
Much better than "faux news" Tee hee hee. Still makes me chuckle.
I was pleased they didn't try and say that kids shoot people because of GTA though.
They were talking about the comparison between games and movies that has become increasingly apparent over the past few years. They quickly went into the use of character ideas to be exchanged both ways between the mediums. At the end they went something along the lines of "...IF you feel like stepping into this guy's shoes." To which Couric went "No thanks." That's all, really. It was an opinion.
They were just talking about the growing parallel between games and movies, the possible exchange of ideas for years to come. To that end, they wondered if GTA would be something of interest. That's where Couric said 'No thanks.' That's all. It was just an opinion.
There it is, I guess. Looks like it cut off before that "No thanks" part you guys are talking about, though.
Oh well, she'll be fired soon anyway.
The overall tone of the story was good and balanced, a far cry for Fox news supposed Mass effect story, for which the game community was rightly upset about.
I have not heard the comment in question, her choice is irrelevant and unimportant.
Journalists, especially in general areas such as news hosting, should endevour to remove their personal opinion and feelings from things. They should not be making their personal feelings known on issues, be it video games, famine, homicide or cute puppies.
They should be required to only report facts and never let emotion nor opinion influence their report.
That they do not, is one of the reasons journalism is almost in a worthless state these days for people looking for real facts and news instead of sensationalist garbage.