All Together Now: May 1972 - January 22 2008

All Together Now will be my weekly news reviews at the new site, which will provide links to all the posts I made that week and will sum them up "real purdy-like". This one clearly doesn't have any posts to link to, but I'm going to quickly sum up some recent news that falls under this blog's new purpose.


UNITED KINGDOM (LA (Legal Arcade, not Los Angeles)) - Gordon Brown sorta kinda blames video games for knife violence on the rise in Britain. The press featured screens from violent video games to exaggerate his statements.

Also, Bully becomes an issue in the U.K. all over again with its re-release. Maybe that's because it's actually called Bully now instead of the old British title Canis Canem Edit. The new title got anti-bullying organizations in a large hissy-fit even though the main character of the game isn't really so much of a bully. This brings up what will certainly be an overriding theme of this blog- Old people aren't hip to what's actually in the game. And you shouldn't expect them to be. However, you shouldn't expect them to threaten censoring your medium because they don't understand. Anyway...

BRAZIL (LA (alright, I'll stop that now, I'm not exactly the Associated Press)) - Counter-Strike and Everquest are banned for some reason in the country of soccer and big Jesus statues.

UNITED STATES - Mass Effect gets brought up by a specific conservative pundit, and he mostly recants his position. Then, Fox News brings it all up again and Geoff Keighley fails to defend the game in the couple of seconds of air time he's given. The controversy is the sex scene very late into the game. Because you can choose whether or not you have sex with this very humanoid alien, and whether you're male or female, the press decided that they could call it "interactive sex". It's not, and there's no real nudity, and you have to work for at least ten hours to get to the scene, so it's not exactly as easy as little Jimmy finding internet porn or a magazine, or as rewarding for him.

Well, there's the first round of depressing news about the clash between politics and the gaming world. Real posts to begin likely tomorrow.

Bonus points for whoever figures out what happened in May 1972

Benvenuti a "Il Legal Arcade"

Here's the new blog, split off from my old one, the Wii PlayBox, dedicated solely to politics and studies and censorship and old people and everyone who does or does not understand video gaming as a new medium. Likely no one's going to read this post, but that's what this blog is about. So read some real posts, and not this.