Utah bans having fun

4 March 2009

Utah continues its heroic attempt to become the most ass-backwards state in the Union.

Bets Buy joins the anti-developer hate train by reexamine its used game program. When will this crusade end?! Oh, it will when we abolish $60 games and $100 million development budgets for one-player, 6-hour shooting games? OK then!

Toys R Us is testing a used games program. Is it time to start blaming Toys R Us for video game developers’ money problems now too?

Seriously guys. Just stop before someone gets hurt. Game publishers need to get off their faux Ivory Tower and realize that video game movies just don’t work.

The bogus race debate surrounding upcoming sales figure failure Resident Evil 5: Use the Controls We Tell You To Use takes a slap to the face. Can we stop talking about this made-up controversy now?

Telling children they can’t have something makes them want to have it even more. Who knew it applied to to Mature rated video games too? Not the American Academy of Pediatrics, apparently, which just finished up a wild foray into the world of the mind-numbingly obvious.

Video games were called “recession proof”—that is, until developers and publishers started shedding jobs in the thousands. Yet Nintendo, even though it has reported a reduction in revenues, hasn’t shed any jobs, and is still making good money. Why is no one asking the tough questions about why all these respected and “successful” developers/publishers are cutting jobs during one of the most wildly successful times in video game history?

The Japanese love their exclusive RPGs so much that they’re willing to sacrifice their dignity and buy an Xbox 360 just to play them.

Who gives a hoot about the rest—Punch-Out smacks around the Wii in May.

Forget the massive pedophilia problem for a second. The man could GAME.