PC gaming's dying, hunh? Not if the rumormongers have anything to say about it. Between recent 'confirmations' of Final Fantasy XIII and Grand Theft Auto IV, PC gamers have started dreaming of a brighter future -- and judging by a recent scan of the ESRB ratings, those dreams will soon have a soundtrack. The ESRB has [...]
Continue reading...Friday, June 20, 2008
Your daily smörgåsbord of the very best gaming has to offer. Enthusiast: Guitar Hero: World Tour details revealed at (IGN) LittleBigPlanet will have some semblance of story, feature user-policing for adult content (PS3 Fanboy) "On September 2nd, shovel talks. You dig. Monsters die," and Atlus sets you to work building dungeons in Master of the Monster Lair for Nintendo [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, May 21, 2008
Reluctant would-be importers rejoice! That stronghold of early awareness, the ESRB, has rated several titles our Japanese gaming rivals have enjoyed for years, including the ridiculous platformer BioMiracle Bokutte Upa, side-scrolling shooter Gley Lancer, and Hironobu Sakaguchi's potent portable RPG Archaic Sealed Heat for the Nintendo DS. Also, City Connection and some more Alex Kidd...
Continue reading...Monday, May 19, 2008
This week, California State Senator Leland Yee defends our children -- and his own political stance -- by answering YOUR questions.
Continue reading...Friday, May 16, 2008
In this week's episode, Jesse covers the Video Game Ratings Enforcement Act, Wii Fit's unabashed honesty, DRM issues with Mass Effect on the PC and E3's growing lack of exhibitors.
Continue reading...Monday, May 5, 2008
California State Senator Leland Yee has granted GameCyte readers and fellow journalists an open interview.
Continue reading...Friday, May 2, 2008
Several sources are independently reporting that the quirky, beloved SNES role-playing game EarthBound has been rated for Wii by the Entertainment Software Ratings Board, and is thus liable to appear on Virtual Console sometime in the near future.
Continue reading...Monday, April 21, 2008
The ESRB and the PTA -- or the Entertainment Software Ratings Board and the Parent Teacher Association, for the acronym-challenged -- have published a new guide for parents about the digital bogeyman that is video games. The 19-page document is available online, and will soon be distributed to 26,000 PTAs nationwide.
Continue reading...Friday, April 18, 2008
Earlier this week, parts of the web were shocked to hear ESRB president Patricia Vance decree that downloadable content must not "go out of bounds" by introducing new elements that might change the game's maturity rating. Whether an attack on developers' free speech or merely a money sink for publishers forced to pull and relabel [...]
Continue reading...Monday, March 31, 2008
Over at Escapist Magazine, Brenda Brathwaite wrote a lengthy feature trying to divine the source of the non-gaming population's antipathy toward video games. She polled a group of forty of her friends who do not play video games about their opinions of games and discovered that the mood was overwhelmingly negative with only two respondents [...]
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Wednesday, July 30, 2008
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