‘TIME’ magazine just doesn’t get ‘Halo’
Bits Bytes Pixels Sprites has a nice breakdown of why TIME magazine’s cover story (it’s in the tiny box in the upper right) about the upcoming Halo 3 = teh suxx0r.
His assertion that most readers of Time couldn’t possibly describe what the Halo games are about is the most laughable. Though Time magazine’s circulation numbers have dropped from 4 million down to 3.4 million in the past year, those numbers are still EASILY dwarfed by Halo 2’s sales numbers alone, so far moving 8 million copies. So maybe Grossman shouldn’t assume that no one who reads Time magazine plays Halo.
The TIME piece also characterizes videogames, the highest grossing sector of the entertainment economy, as a marginalized subculture full of unrepentant virgins — “lonely and alienated” in their “invisible geek ghetto.” Apparently, TIME doesn’t realize this only describes Counter-Strike players.
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6. September 2007 at 3:08 pm :
wow, this lonely and alienated virgin is going to cancel TIME subscription, good game.
7. September 2007 at 5:54 am :
what i think is funny is the “halo:3 - the thinking gamer’s shoot ‘em-up”. you really have to think to play halo…. cause you know how complex it is….. ugh