Depictions Of Videogames In The Media

WHOA

slocki OTM

http://technology.guardian.co.uk/games/story/0,,1947550,00.html

"Apparently it's OK to be a sports buff , a movie buff , or a food buff ... but being a games buff still somehow offends society. People prepared to conduct tedious 15-hour analytical conversations about football or Kieslowski or the best place to find balsamic vinegar will have the audacity to call you a nerd for mentioning anything more obscure than Grand Theft Auto. Well, fuck your snobbery."

yeah, but we've talked about this before, haven't we? the fact that modern video games sound like movies, so they use the 4-bit beep-bloop-blop sounds has a redundant shorthand to convey to dense and/or people that "yes we is playing the games"

Weren't the soldiers at the end in a 'biohazard' truck?

Lane's husband and flatmate are also constantly playing Soul Calibur III (PS2)

First episode of Charlie Brooker's Gameswipe is up on YouTube - I enjoyed it, especially the contributed sections. Nice to Rab and Ryan from Consolevania, and surprised to see Rebecca Mayes from The Escapist turning up too.

watching now, very funny. loved the guys complaints about gtaiv haha, in the second part vid.

lol project natal
"presumably the high score table is some sort of offenders register"

yeah, watched this. so there is more episodes coming?

doesn't look like it's on next week, checking beeb4 schedule.

What was this? Should I grab the torrent?

it was a one off, he wants to make more though, and it got better ratings than Screenwipe and Newswipe

CSI:NY Series 8 Episode 15 was set in the world of competitive video games. one bloke patched the code to make himself a smaller target and increase the size of the others. there was something else about legal highs. anyway, the most startling thing was they showed the code that the bloke had used for the patch:

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7215/7156991304_390c498b6d.jpg

it's quite obviously just html, printed in a cursive font (why?). did nobody notice? and both sheets are the same...

Everybody knows that real hackers use Comic Sans.

cool. that code doesn't even do anything lol

You don't handwrite code before you type it in?

This, according to Eastenders, was what a videogame looked like in 2010.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Il7gPKRhSDs
http://a.imageshack.us/img690/6885/eastgame.png

I love how Phil Mitchell and his creepy son are playing it as if it's a two-player fighting game, when there's clearly only ever one player character on screen.

You don't handwrite code before you type it in?

― smash sbros (Will M.), Wednesday, May 9, 2012 1:10 AM (2 days ago)

pshaw! Only n00bs handwrite their code. Real programmers use punch cards and punch the holes with their teeth.

(i have pages and pages of handwritten z80 assembly... and i'm not alone:

http://sandywhite.co.uk/fun/ants/AAsource.htm

but that's real code, not just random html)

that fake game has kind of awesome art

xp Guess I was spoilt by the BBC Basic's built in assembler.

SVU is a hall of famer at hilarious video game depictions, between the hooker-beating GTA rip Tenacity (which totally hooked Fringe's Lincoln Lee) and the MMO obsessed South Korean parents becoming US trailer dwellers addicted to something that looked like a single-screen Dragon's Lair. Oh and that way early episode where Kragan brags to a murderous preteen baout how he made it all the way to level 14 and bagged himself a Gorgon.

ok, heads up for uk people

CH4 this saturday @ 21:00
Charlie Brooker - How Video Games Changed The World
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/charlie-brooker-videogames-changed-the-world

followed @ 23:05 by
Indie Game: The Movie
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/indie-game-the-movie

I wonder how much of this is going to be new stuff, as opposed to a retread of Gameswipe plus Minecraft plus GTAV.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVGD5suu90I

http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/11/youre-like-a-dog-at-the-controls-of-a-helicopter-charlie-brooker-tries-and-fails-to-teach-newsreader-jon-snow-about-videogames/

Seems like the bulk of the programme is going to be a chronological order countdown of twenty influential games.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xAIpVxL3HU
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/nov/29/charlie-brooker-video-game-television

holy crap, rab florence got mad skinny. so was this any good?

I enjoyed it but it's one of those things where you could spend days arguing about the omissions. talking heads generally good. first time I'd heard Jeff Minter talk. thought the #1 entry was a bit fatuous though

I forgot this came out.

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/sep/20/grand-theft-auto-5-adult-gamers

I like this too

i keep forgetting this thread.

Dead Pixels, the channel 4 (UK) thing has large chunks of people grinding in a mmorpg. last episode had three of them punching a mammoth to death.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4419540/?ref_=ttep_ep14

there's a whole gamergate episode of SVU. lots of acronyms being explained. and tutuola is a massive gamer, despite never having mentioned it ever before.

"Trivia: This episode holds the record for the lowest rated episode for the whole series."

iirc that was the one that had a blatant Anita Sarkeesian stand in, hoop earrings and all. never did see it