The Games News

Oklahoma, Louisiana, and now Minnesota seem to be great places to raise your children, especially if you are raising video game playing teenagers. Due to recent signings of the “Inappropriate Games” bill, minors who purchase M-rated (Mature) and/or AO-rated (Adult Only) video games will levy a fine of $25 dollars, instead of fining the retailer who sold the game to the minor. This poses a paradox of sorts: Why fine the minor who bought it when it was the retailer who failed to ask for ID that sold it?

Minnesota Representative Barb Gordon, however, tried unsuccessfully to amend the bill so that retailers would get fined as well. “It’s the retailers that buy the games or rent the games that know what they’ve got there. If they choose to rent those to children then they ought to pay the fine,” said Gordon. That’s one statement, if you’re a state government that is trying to pass a bill of this sort, which you need to heed to. If you are going to punish one, then you should punish all. Fine the minor who bought it, the retailer who sold it, and the company who made it. There should be no fine line anywhere in this equation. If you’re going to punish someone, don’t be biased.

Generally the first instinct for millions of people worldwide is to turn on electronic games when they want to be entertained. Entertainment is nowadays a fast growing industry with millions of subscribers from different countries. Now TV is no longer the main attraction and a good game can be more captivating than any TV network. The good games are involving interactivity, strategy, thinking, and in many of them a basic story line is followed. The games are not just for young boys but also for girls, and their main advantage is the interactivity. The quality of TV is going down too much and in those conditions 2 in 5 in 10 adults turn their attention to electronic games. Video games are the highest form of art mankind ever has made, because they combine everything: music, art and feelings are melted together and the best part is that you are actually in the game. Movies, no matter how good they get, are not interactive. In video games you actually are in the story instead of just watching it, and people are starting to finally realize the advantages of that.

Every hero has an end, only Rayman it’s immortal. A new version for this challenging adventure game, called Rayman 4 will be released by UbiSoft, and available on Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360, Nintendo Wii, Sony PlayStation 2, PlayStation Portable and also on handheld platforms.

Rayman 4 is coming to current and the next generation consoles and will be available around November 2006. The universe of Rayman will be again unleashed. This project was assigned to Michel Ancel, the creator of the original Rayman series so the success hidden beyond this game is almost guaranteed. Rayman is about to exceed any expectations. Furthermore new adventures will be available, so the legend continues. Game play, feeling sound and graphics, all in one just say: Rayman.

According to GameSpot, Apple is looking for C/C++ programmers that have previously worked as game developers. This move comes right after the transition from PowerPC to Intel, which made the Mac even more powerful, allowing it to run better games.

The developers are supposed to work on better OpenGL support in MAC OS X so the new hardware to be better optimized for gaming. Recently Apple hired programmers to work on a game engine for with ARM7 RISC processor, which is found in the iPod. With this Apple is trying to make the iPod more than a music and video player.

As it was announced, Paris Hilton appeared on May 11 at the Electronic Entertainment Expo in the Los Angeles Convention Center, in order to introduce her mobile phones game, ‘Paris Hilton’s Jewel Jam’. Not long ago Paris Hilton Entertainment Inc. signed a deal with video game maker Gameloft to develop and produce a series of mobile phones featuring the Hilton heiress.

At E3, Paris Hilton came, as usually, late to unveiled her new video game which she called it ‘Diamondquest’. Yes, it wasn’t her best day saying the wrong name of her game among fans and photographers. Flying with a green mini-dress and with the boobs half out, Paris Hilton ‘advised them’ to download the game, although ‘Paris Hilton’s Jewel Jam’ which can be played on a cell phone, will be available this summer.

Sorry I’m late. I’m really excited to have my new video game, ‘Diamondquest.’ Thank you all for coming, and you can download the game.
- said Paris Hilton -