Grand Theft Auto IV is not just a gleaming cube of excellence. By selling 3.6 million copies and raking in US$310 million in its first day of release, GTA IV claimed both the Guinness World Records for highest grossing video game in 24 hours and the highest revenue generated by an entertainment product in 24 hours.
Members of Vancouver’s arts community spent the afternoon of May 12 at the Vancouver Playhouse, taking part in the City of Vancouver’s Creative City Conversation 2008, a forum on arts and culture strategies.
Fans who have missed Dominic Da Vinci since Da Vinci's Inquest and Da Vinci's City Hall vanished from the small screen will be excited to know he's returning to the airwaves once again.
When I was growing up, video games were simple. You had two buttons to mash, and levels were simple but difficult. You sat on your couch for hours stuffing your face full of Cheetos. My friends and I used to call Nintendo “Nofriendo”, since most of the games were designed for one player. I always dreamed of games that were more interactive and friend-friendly.
Gwynne Dyer recently wrote about a flood of chicken-cross-the-road jokes that have come out of Zimbabwe’s contested presidential elections. The piece reminded me of another chicken-cross-the-road joke that came out of Iraq.
Here is the weekly update (edited very slightly) from Media Matters for America, which tracks right-wing media bias in the United States. (Anyone interested in this topic should read David Brock's outstanding book The Republican Noise Machine, which goes into much greater detail on this topic. Brock works with Media Matters for America.)
It takes some serious effort to find pathos in a green frog puppet, but somehow the brain trust behind Sad Kermit has done it again. (You might remember Sad Kermit's Johnny Cash-esque take on the Nine Inch Nails classic "Hurt", a Net sensation from a few months ago).
