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The Digital Age Crime

If you wanted to lessen your worldwide roaming prices because, even though you were rich, you wanted better value for money, you’d probably go online and see what was out there, right? Yes, that’d be the most sensible option seeing as we live in an age where anyone from anywhere truly can make it. Likewise, if you were a music producer for TV and film you’d probably be paying attention to the vast number of unsigned but highly energetic musicians out there.

Wait…

See, to my mind, when I turn on the TV now, something stinks: it’s usually some snazzy advert about moisturiser or something, and it’s only after a few seconds that I realise what is happening. That’s when I shout at the screen “is it really that hard to do something totally original?”

I don’t know when this happened, but it definitely happened sometime in the last five years: instead of thinking up their own catchy tunes for their ads, executives got the brilliant idea to take an age-old song, one that everyone knows, and put a hip youthful vibe on it so we barely even notice what the words are. While this is all good and well because good music is timeless, I can’t help but feel a bit angry that there are all these unsigned – and newly signed – bands and vocalists out there who would jump at the chance to create an identity for something like this. It saddens me that the same old stuff keeps being rehashed. Is being original such a crime?

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3D and move tech a big difference?

Will 3D and technology like the Xbox Kinect and the PS3 Move make a big difference in the gaming experience. It depends on the crowd its catering to. Some people are speculative about the 3D industry as they say that they’d like to preserve the 3D experience in the cinema and leave it at that. However its the same people who one day go over to their friends place and see that they bought a new 3D TV. You will discuss with your other male friends you will like it too. After 6 months or 1 year when 3D TV’s aren’t expensive anymore, you will definitely buy one because everyone is – in simple words – its peer pressure in adulthood.
However things like the Move and Kinect are things that will distinguish itself into strict margins. These movement detection device are strictly for the casual gamers, for a serious gamer, it wouldn’t be of any concern to him. Games the like SuperMario, Wii Sports and Wii fitness are best suited to movement detection devices as they genuinely promote the better experience. However for a gamer who plays shooters like Killzone 3 or RPG’s like Mass Effect or strategy like End War, it makes no sense. I’ve tried the Move in a friends place for Killzone 3, its not any good, it doesn’t make the experience better, instead your aim is unsteady and you get killed to often, plus you need to acclimatise your self to using the Move before you can play it.
Imagine a Move player with a controller player on Multiplayer, completely ruins the experience. The net root issue lies in the experience relevant.

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Violence In Video Games And Why It Isn’t So Bad

I’ve heard it said quite a lot recently that video games are becoming dangerously violent. I’m never quite sure what that phrase actually means. Does it mean “violent enough that people will start acting on what they see in real life” or does it mean “damaging to the mind in an emotional way from seeing so much violence and gore”? I happen to think that violent video-games are neither. Most of you will have seen how gory they are, but as for any emotional attachment, there really isn’t one.

And look at what people used to do for fun: I can remember learning about frying slugs with a magnifying glass and practising this terrible technique on any slug who wandered into my warpath. Did I grow up to construct a massive magnifying glass with which to fry people with? No, I didn’t, and it wasn’t just because my engineering skills aren’t up to it. What I mean to say is this: by presuming that children will grow up with murderous instincts is silly just as expecting a teenager might get in a car and mow people on the pavement down is silly. Yet nobody would ever think of telling a teenager “don’t kill anyone on the path today, now, tempting as it may be.”

I think it’s all getting a bit out of hand. Can’t we give the kids the benefit of the doubt? It’s always worked in the past, and now the kids have access to Free Antivirus Downloads and movies and education I think we should naturally assume that they won’t turn out any worse than most of us did.

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Review “Hard Corps: Uprising”

I brought an r4i flash card recently and while I was in the store I came across the video game Hard corps: Uprising. So I purchased it and went home and played for hours.

Now Uprising is the latest edition of the Contra series. It is a shooter action kind of game in which Konami uses his oversized gun to burn out that all bad street guys. It holds your hand in the beginning and throws you into the scene until you finish shooting all the targets till the end.

The main addition to this version is stage design and placing. The whole area is filled with enemies to keep you intrigued with game feeling overjoyed until you are finish with your challenge.

You are provided with the options of hybrid game modes equipped with older mechanics. If you like single player then Uprising gives you the conventional arcade mode with three lives and three continues to finish all the eight stages. As you progress through the game your health bar, power weapons and game difficulty increases gradually and the most interesting part is that the enemy’s progresses the same way as you move ahead in stages.

This version comes with two added modes online gaming and local co-op feature. In every mode you will likely have a fantastic feeling from playing. In online gaming mode you can call your friend to help you out in fighting the enemies giving you a tremendous group experience. In short you will never regret on your choice of playing this game, I know I am not.

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