2011年1月27日星期四

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“See AlsoSee the game in actionAn interview with the game's makerThe Ugly Fantasies Of Revenge[Pic]”Do you want a college football playoff? Do you love the tradition of a New Year's Day packed with A-list bowls? You can have both, with Stick Jockey's video game simulation of a 16-team tournament - and 27 bowls.Note: This is a very long replica Concord Saratoga Automatic Chronograph Men's Watch column. There are more than 40 games described below. I've highlighted the playoff results in yellow if that's what you're really interested in.One of the most false debating points in the college football playoff argument is the idea that somehow the bowls diminish a playoff, or vice versa.

I maintain that the bowl postseason should be preserved, running alongside a meritorious, 16-team playoff inviting the champion of every conference. The bowls - the better ones, anyway - have a majesty that far surpasses any “football NIT” label some think they'd acquire if the NCAA implemented a Division I football playoff.My idea is that, while a replica Concord 0310566 WoMen's watch game like the Orange Bowl may not prefer a pairing of conference runner-ups, provided the sides are appropriately matched the games can be no less memorable. The bowls relentlessly tout their tradition, but forget that tradition, until the early 1990s, felt no obligation to help determine a national champion.

And for a sporting culture so built on haves and have-nots, a holiday-based bowl structure as a consolation prize offers a much more meaningful postseason “reward,” as one of the talking points always describes the bowls, to teams that rarely, or have replica Concord 0310958 WoMen's watch never visited fabled venues like the Sugar or the Cotton, rather than sending them to Orlando to play in an advertisement for Champs Sports.The bowls have a great value. But they have no place in determining a national champion. The Bowl Championship Series is the most meritless selection of a champion in major sports in the entire world.

The Israeli game maker told Kotaku

The Israeli game maker told Kotaku that the game has no agenda for the game which he and a team have been working on since 2007 and is due out next month. Instead, the developer, who believes that in a past life he was imprisoned as a Jew by Nazis, calls the game “blast the Nazis fun.”But the advocacy group, founded to “stop the replica Concord Saratoga Stainless Steel Black Dial Men defamation of the Jewish people and to secure justice and fair treatment to all,” says the game shouldn't be released, not even if it is meant to be played as violent revenge fantasy.”Perhaps well intentioned in its creation, its execution and imagery are horrific and inappropriate,” an Anti-Defamation League spokesperson told Kotaku.

“The Holocaust should be off-limits for video games. We hope the developers will reconsider and abandon the game.”Sonderkommando Revolt is based on the real-world uprising at Auschwitz in October 1944 and built on the foundation of classic shooter Wolfenstein 3D. The actual event in Auschwitz resulted in the deaths of just three replica Concord Saratoga Automatic Stainless Steel Sil German Schutzstaffel soldiers and the murder of 451 Sonderkommandos, a “special unit” of primarily Jewish concentration camp workers who aided in the killing process during the Holocaust.In the video game version of the uprising, the tables are clearly turned, with protagonist and actual Auschwitz prisoner Zalmen Gradowski tearing through Nazi soldiers with a wide selection of weapons.

“Graphically it'll feature many themes,” write its creators, “including Crematoriums, Block 11, Gas Chambers, execution, interrogation and torture areas...most of which are ripped/based off real pic from the real site.”The Anti-Defamation League sees the game as neither harmless fun nor cathartic video game violence.”This rudimentary video replica Concord Saratoga Stainless Steel Black Dial Men game is an offensive portrayal of the Holocaust,” the spokesperson told Kotaku. “With its unnecessarily gruesome and gratuitous graphics, it is a crude effort to depict Jewish resistance during this painful period which should never be trivialized.

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That's well and good if it's, I don't know, LittleBigPlanet or Super Mario Galaxy. Modern Ware?Officials at East Valley Education Center in Oakdale, Calif. refused to appear on camera, but it sounds like they were using video games as an incentive or a reward to help kids with developmental difficulties socialize. Sounds great, except Modern Ware, an M-rated game, was one of them.A school administrator backed out of an replica Concord 0309265 WoMen's watch on-camera interview (which the reporter chippily notes) but said that the school would get rid of the games. Meantime, the mom and dad involved here say their autistic son came home with manifested anger issues, acting out and directing some of his behavior at his sister.

Years of overreaction have conditioned gamers to mistrust hysterical parents and sweeps-hungry local TV outlets in the violent video games debate. But, at face value, this is colossally stupid. If the ESRB rating has any meaning, Modern Ware is not appropriate in any school, regardless of students' needs. Someone's thinking lawsuit here, and someone else is probably looking at unemployment for Christmas.Violent replica Concord Saratoga Automatic Stainless Steel Sil Video Games Allowed At Special Needs School [CBS Sacramento, thanks Mike B.]”A video game that depicts an uprising in a Nazi death camp has drawn harsh criticism from the Anti-Defamation League, which told Kotaku that the Holocaust should be off-limits for video games.Earlier this week Sonderkommando Revolt, a video game set amidst a violent prisoner uprising at the Auschwitz death camp, came to light.

Electronic Arts registered new web site domains

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“ Gameplay involved “avoiding, out-running and even riding on top of massive avalanches; battling hurricane winds; white-outs; bitter cold; falling rocks; and gaping crevasses that open up at a moment's notice.”New and proposed features included the ability to “take part in helicopter drops and rescues, base-jumping, wingsuit/squirrel-suit flying, replica Concord Pearl Diamond Dial Diamond Bezel WoMen skyboarding, para-skiing, ice-climbing and more.”Could the new SSX game be the game teased as “The Planet” in anticipation of the Spike TV Video Game Awards, set to air later this week? Conventional wisdom pointed to that teaser as a Battlefield related, but its style and snowy substance could fit the snowboarding game surveyed earlier this year.

Consider these SSX tidbits rumor for now and the aforementioned survey may not officially be tied to SSX development, but pray for snow this weekend when the Spike VGAs air—hopefully with more clear information."The logo for SSX Deadly Descents just popped up during the Spike TV VGAs broadcast, confirming the reveal of EA's next entry in the wild snowboarding series. We'll have to wait a bit longer for the replica Concord Sportivo Stainless Steel Silver Guillo official reveal, but here's what we've heard so far."A new batch of beta trial invitations for LittleBigPlanet 2 were supposed to go out this month, and they did, but apparently they all contained the same key.Not only that, AFPO-VCHR-CODE looks like a placeholder.

2011年1月20日星期四

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