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Seth MacFarlane will be hosting the Canadian Awards for the Electronic and Animated Arts this year. The event will feature winners from over thirty categories and is scheduled to take place on February 15, 2008 at the Centre in Vancouver for the Performing Arts. To cut to the heart of… Continue Reading »

Cooper Lawrence, a self-help book writer who appeared on the Fox News program The Live Desk With Martha MacCallum and berated Bioware’s game Mass Effect for its repugnant content and depiction of women as sex objects, has admitted that she misspoke about the game. Her comments had incensed the gaming… Continue Reading »

In a recent post at AfterElton.com entitled “The Week in Gay Geek”, writer LyleMasaki takes on the recent controversies surrounding the UK re-release of Bully and Fox News’ coverage of Mass Effect. LyleMasaki writes that the issues taken with Bully (thankfully) have nothing to do with the same-sex kissing in… Continue Reading »

Earlier this week (January 21, 2008), Fox News’ “Live Desk With Martha MacCallum” segment focused on the sexual content in the Xbox 360 game, Mass Effect. In the segment, titled “SE’XBOX,” it pointed out that portions of the game includes some nudity (though that is debatable) and claimed the game… Continue Reading »

Text in videogames is a tricky thing. It can either help enrich the experience or slow the game to an agonizing pace. Sure, back in the days of Zork, a text-based adventure was actually a genre, but now it’s often an overlooked element of a larger game. I’m not talking… Continue Reading »

Product: Mass Effect Price: $59.99 System(s): Xbox 360 Rating: 9/10 Publisher (Developer): Microsoft (Bioware) ESRB Rating: “Mature” Pros: Amazing story, solid shooter action, great custom character creator, great new franchise. Cons: To short for a true RPG, graphics aren’t quite up to Unreal Engine 3 standards, a number of noticeable… Continue Reading »

That didn’t last long. Almost as quickly as Singapore banned the videogame Mass Effect, the Media Development Authorities did a complete turn around after the Board of Film Censors gave it a M18 rating and placed the game on the shelves. Did the homophobic city-state learn to understand and accept… Continue Reading »

That didn’t last long. Almost as quickly as Singapore banned the videogame Mass Effect, the Media Development Authorities did a complete turn around after the Board of Film Censors gave it a M18 rating and placed the game on the shelves. Did the homophobic city-state learn to understand and accept… Continue Reading »

Ah yes, another countdown to another highly anticipated game. Xbox 360 owners are about to suffer from some serious over exertion of their pleasure centers. In anticipation of another blockbuster title for the Xbox 360, Microsoft, Yahoo! and the SCI FI channel are teaming up to countdown to the November… Continue Reading »

Bioware has announced the release date for epic galaxy-spanning RPG Mass Effect – November 20, 2007. That means that gamers have about twelve weeks to wait for the hotly anticipated (and oft-delayed) title. The Xbox 360 DVD game will have an estimated retail of $59.99 and carries an ESRB rating… Continue Reading »