The Legal Arcade
Blog URL http://www.legalarcade.com
Located Travelers Rest, South Carolina USA
Tags videogame, video game, gaming, legal, research, sony, nintendo, microsoft, xbox
A blog about video games, and in particular controversial games and the legislation and research targeting them.
Latest Blog Posts
- Modern Warfare 2: Some Notes on Nov 13, 2009 in controversy Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2
So Modern Warfare 2 is already setting sales records. And it has not shied away from conspiracy for even one second. Before release, Infinity Ward was releasing some advertising material that just baldly seemed built to piss some people off and get t...
- Blood Pressure Raised by TV Time on Aug 4, 2009 in study research Studying Studies
According to the study covered here, children's blood pressure may go up as they watch TV or play video games. Oddly enough, blood pressure increases independent of the body type of the 3 to 8 year-olds studied did not increase with regular sedentary...
- Sphere Psychosis Game Released on Jun 17, 2009 in Unity Marble Madness TIGSource Nathaniel Edwards NV Games
I've started making my own games, so here's the first: Sphere Psychosis, an entry into the Unofficial TIGSource Vaporware Competition, in which you had to make a game that was never released. I chose Marble Madness II, and decided to make it 3d, with...
- Terrorism Can Be Fun With Red Faction: Guerrilla! on Jun 12, 2009 in controversy terror terrorism Red Faction
I've almost finished playing Red Faction: Guerrilla, and I'm having fun with it. The sledgehammer-swinging pure destruction is just so much fun, all on its own, that the rest of the game would have to be terrible to bring it down. Miyamoto famously a...
- InFAMOUS Impressions Live Blog on May 29, 2009
My little brother is loading up InFAMOUS, and I'm on the laptop, and I can tell I have a lot to say about this extremely well-reviewed game, so here's a live recording of my reactions:19:50: God, the writing for the opening sequence is ridiculously a...
- Have a Reflective Memorial Day! on May 25, 2009 in independent games
Download Stars 'n' Stripes here!Enjoy this, the greatest Memorial Day game ever made, a program I wrote in Lite C, with some fantastic music stolen from LaLaLand 5. Now, I'll get back to trying to figure out Unity while I've still got twenty days of...
- Telltale Games Anniversary Sale on May 14, 2009 in sale coupon Telltale deal adventure offer
Telltale Games, makers of the Sam & Max, Strong Bad, Wallace and Gromit, and Bone games are offering an anniversary sale until mid-June in which you can get any of their games for $5. Just use this coupon code at their site:FRM-5A2-B9Q-DH7...
