Archives for the Month of May, 2007

Would you rather

Would you rather design a game which glorifies the exploitation of women or which marginalizes the lives of foreign peoples?
Either game can (and should) use violence to achieve its thematic end.

Video game pricing and Shadowrun

Shane Kim answers questions about the pricing disparity between the Vista and the Xbox 360 prices for Shadowrun (releasing on May 29). The answers to N’gai Croal’s questions are too good.
My hypothesis: releasing Shadowrun on the 360 at a lower price point (to match the Vista version) would have insinuated that it is of less [...]

A nation of laws

Lou Dobbs seems to think he’s special by pointing out that May 1 is Law Day.
And he claims that we are a nation, first, of laws. Aren’t we first a nation of people? People whose presence and mutual agreement imbues those laws with power?
I don’t even want to touch his immigration comments. Why is it [...]