Well this little nugget of news raised the bar on narrow-mindedness – fining companies for having booth-babes who are dressed too scantily. They already don’t allow anyone under 18 into E3, so you have an adult audience. Who are they trying to protect from what? And what’s the big deal with showing a little skin? This is LA. Hollyweird.
Other articles claim this is an issue of “respecting women.” Meaning they want more women to buy video games. Hey, how about rather than make the booth babes cover up, they have a few booth dudes for the women to gush over and have pictures taken with? Wouldn’t that be just as fair? Sure … but then the moralistic swine who want to tell everyone else what they can and cannot see wouldn’t get their say.
Video game “booth babes” forced to cover up
By Daisuke Wakabayashi
Thu May 11, 9:45 AM ETLOS ANGELES (Reuters) –
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If you play online games you know the term. And you know the kind of behavior you run into. This site is a hilarious Flash movie which so accurately depicts it. (Rated R for language and violence.)
There was recent flare up on the Aces High BBS and someone was foolhardy enough to provoke me. Berating people in words is usually enough, but some folks are so obtuse and absurd in their positions that they deserve the extra attention. So out comes Photoshop and the parodies:
(If you don’t play a game like Aces High, these will make next to no sense whatsoever … well, some of it will, some things like closed-mindedness are kind of universal.)
A new release of probably the best MMOG for WW2 aviation enthusiats. The B17 has been re-done and there have been some pretty significant changes made to the flight model code.
Download from the HiTech Creations website.
Hearts of Iron II is a grand strategy game from Paradox Interactive. It lets you play the leader of any of the Allied or Axis powers in World War II and decide the politics, the kind of army, and the way the war is fought for that power. Games can take days to complete – if you are into WW2 history and have a week or two you want to see vanish, this is your ticket.
Playing Russia is an interesting challenge. You don’t have the advanced research capacity of the Western powers, your army is out-of-date at the start of hostilities, and you don’t have the industrial base of the US. You do have lots and lots of manpower and plenty of space to fall back. So here is a nice technique to not only win as Russia in the Grand Campaign (1936-1947, Hard/Aggressive dificulty level), but also to have some pretty exciting game play.
