Video Games and Sex

This is starting to pop-up everywhere (here, here and here) but I still wanted to share it with you.

A Professor at Savannah College of Art and Design, Daniel Floyd, has summed-up very eloquently the current state of sex in video games, and the whole "controversy" around it. Very well put together.

Enjoy and pass around!

EVE Online Speedlinking for May 26th, 2008

Wow, I take a 3 day break off my Google Reader RSS feed, and a whole bunch of great posts and amazing news happens! Well, I've learned my lesson, from now on I'm never ever leaving the site of my PC. Either that, or I spend some money on buying myself a laptop instead of a 2nd and 3rd VX922 (more on that later).

So here's the news in the past week.

• CSM election results are out!
• CSM: The Results are in
  
• The Council Members
  
• The Votes in numbers
  
• Vice Chairman Steele
• The CSM Assembly Hall - Make your Voices heard!
• In the News:
• CCP Announces Player Council Election Results
• So what is EVE Online's player council all about?
• Delegates for EVE's first council of stellar management announced
• Reflections in a flat - Zapatero on the election results.
  
• "A Life in Three Acts" - A new EVE Chronicle
• Experiences of Empyrean Age on SiSi. (little update) - An update on Empyrean Age
• New Eden's virtual reporters - Massively.com on the ISD.
• Warp Drive Active Episode #37 - A behemoth of a podcast worth every second! A must!!
• EVEcast has got a new look and a new address!
• The possibility of AvA in EVE. - Keith expands upon my earlier FPS EVE post.
  

If EVE Online were a First-Person Shooter...

...it would probably look something close to Gears of War.

These days, when I'm not playing EVE and I need to get a quick fix of adrenaline, I slap in Gears of War in my 360 and start shooting and chopping Locusts like there's no tomorrow. And ever since I first saw trailers for this game, it's always reminded of what EVE Online might look like if an FPS were designed around it.

What I wouldn't give to play through a level based on the Man-Eater chronicle of EON issue #008, or maybe Legionnaire back in issue #001. Gears of War has that dark gritty and horror feel to it that would be the perfect setting for an EVE Online FPS. Don't you think?

And speaking of Gears of War, here's a clip that shows some of the action that we'll get to enjoy when Gears of War 2 comes out this November.


You can download the HD video here if you're interested!

Move out!