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MSNBC, TMZ and iHeartRadio apps now available on Xbox Live
Microsoft released some new apps for Xbox Live today. If you head over to the Apps Marketplace in the United States, you’ll see video apps for TMZ, YouTube, Verizon FiOS TV and MSNBC. There is also an app for iHeartRadio if you’re more inclined to listen to music rather than watch videos. Apps for other countries have been released as well.
MSNBC writer believes some games should have sex in them
When one considers the negative (and often unnecessary attention) that video games receive for displays of violence and overt sexuality, it should come as a surprise when one hears of any one opening calling for games to maintain and even increase shocking displays, provided that they are handled in a mature manner.
The person who is sounding this alarm of positivity is Winda Benedetti of MSNBC. Benedetti, who pens game columns as MSNBC’s “Citizen Gamer” humorously, begins her piece by giving the impression that she is an individual who saw a male organ for the first time. While gamers would undoubtedly dismiss this childish display, her mock reaction in the article’s intro shares some similarities to the realistic responses expressed by…
Many game companies, analysts disappointed with E3 2008
Not many attendees were impressed with this year’s Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3). During an interview held Thursday, (July 17, 2008) Shigeru Miyamoto, Nintendo’s senior managing director and general manager of entertainment analysis and the development division, told MSNBC that even though many fans of long running Nintendo franchise games such as Mario, Zelda or even StarFox were upset he felt that E3 was no longer a place for those types of game.
Click through to find out what game companies thought of E3 2008…
MSNBC writer denounces games as media’s main scapegoat
Back on Monday (February 18, 2008), MSNBC published an article by writer Winda Benedetti criticizing infamous Miami lawyer Jack Thompson’s far too well-known crusade against videogames. Benedetti even went so far as to suggest that certain games can actually be thought-provoking enough to warn against the dangers of such things like obesity, which gaming is also often blamed for.
Yes, you read that paragraph right. In the wake of the recent shootings at Northern Illinois University, someone in the media actually…
