djWheat has been conserving his energy for this episode! We discuss coop games and Army of Two! What was the hosts first Coop game? A caller calls in via Skype on his PSP, and it doesn’t sound like crap. Summa wants to be a pig! We discuss the Digital Games in 2008! What education does djWheat have? What sort of major would someone need to work in this industry? What is better, plasma or LCD? Game makers have reached the blu ray capacity! Who would pay a monthly fee to play a Wii game?
By far the most interactive and visceral demo station here at DigitalLife is the America’s Army area tucked in the corner of the convention hall. Called the Virtual Army Experience, groups of attendees are ushered in, registered, tagged, and placed in a real-life situation with real-life weapons — only instead of bullets, everything is laser sighted. I had a chance to not only stop by the booth, but take part in the entire experience myself.
The time has come for another weekend video interview with an eSports persona. In this week’s 1on1, Wire’s Michal “Carmac” Blicharz talks to the Meet Your Makers CTO, Markus “Army” Stefanko.
Among the subjects mentioned in the conversation are the big millions behind MYM, Jang “Spirit Moon” JaeHo’s reported monthly of $9,000, money in the eSports industry and the Championship Gaming Series’ influence on Counter-Strike 1.6.
Ostensibly, our troops are in Iraq to promote Democracy, stabilize the region, and depending on to whom you listen, lower the price of crude oil. But they’re not there to kill Muslims just because they’re Muslim.
Yet the Pentagon is allowing a right-wing Christian evangelical “entertainment troupe” to distribute copies of Left Behind: Eternal Forces to U.S. troops in Iraq. Continued…
