{"id":254,"date":"2005-11-29T20:33:59","date_gmt":"2005-11-30T00:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/2005\/11\/29\/gaming-rockstars-etc\/"},"modified":"2005-11-29T20:33:59","modified_gmt":"2005-11-30T00:33:59","slug":"gaming-rockstars-etc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/2005\/11\/29\/gaming-rockstars-etc\/","title":{"rendered":"Gaming, rockstars, etc"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a><\/p>\n

Thanks to Dave’s fabulous<\/span> new game-industry blog<\/a>
\n(now that he’s the associate dir @ MIT’s gaming lab<\/span>, it’s about time he
\ngot one up), I’ve been following some of the recent scandals and events
\nin the latest generation of games, something I haven’t done since
\nE3<\/span>.   And today I was lucky enough to spend an hour with Cory Ondrejka<\/span> at Berkman, someone I haven’t seen since Accelerating Chang<\/span>e this time last year.<\/p>\n

So I was reading up on the latest changes in Second Life<\/span>, and ran
\nacross this insightful take on Rockstar, from the cybersex-oriented Black Love Interactive<\/a>:<\/p>\n

[I]f they think “hot coffee” was explicit, it’s woefully juvenile and tame
\ncompared to the real AO titles- which typically have the balls to go AO
\nand not try to be “cool and dangerous” in a mainstream game marketed to
\nteens and sold through Wal-Mart… a rather *sleazy* market to try to
\nbe “edgy” in. Their brand image reminds me of the rebellious teenager
\nwho hangs out with younger kids so that he can be a badass and get
\nrespect even though all of his peers think he’s a huge loser. If they
\nwant to make adult games, by all means do it and don’t water it down
\njust so some 17 year olds can get it for their Christmas present from
\nGrandma ;p It would be cool if Rockstar actually did make AO games with
\nsex etc. but that would take backbone and is a suggestion beyond the
\nscope of this rant[…]\n<\/div>\n

\nNext time I see one of the developers of “Bully”, I’ll be thinking of Xmas prezzies from grandma.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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