Battlefield 4 came out during the last part of October and I didn’t get it posted. This is one that if you love military games you will probably want to add to your gaming collection. Thanks to “Battlefield” on YouTube for the following trailer:
Batman: Arkham Origins Trailer
For all you video gamers today is the release date for Batman: Arkham Origins. This is one that many will want to add to their video game collection. It not only hits the gamers sweet spot, but the Batman fans sweet spot as well. Thanks to the “Batman Arkham City” channel on YouTube for the following trailer:
Opening to Fairy Fencer F
On this last Wednesday, Compile Heart began streaming the opening to the new Fairy Fencer F role-playing game, which will be available on PlayStation 3 in Japan on October 10. There is no release date for the North American market. However, I’m posting this because we get to hear Maho Matsunaga, a member of StylipS sing the opening entitled “Resonance World” and we don’t get to hear to many J-Pop songs. So thank you to “CompileHeartOFFICIAL” channel for releasing the opening, I enjoyed listening to it and you can check it out below:
Metal Gear Solid: Legacy Collection
The majority of gamers probably already have these in their collections. However, if you don’t PlayStation is offering up the Metal Gear Solid: The Legacy Collection this month. So if you don’t have the games in your video game collection this would be a good time to pick them all up at once. Thanks to “SneakingFox” on YouTube for the following trailer:
Xbox One Console
Don Mattrick, the president of the interactive entertainment business at MicroSoft revealed on Tuesday that the Xbox One console will be coming later this year. There was no specific date, so if something happens they can push back the launch date, you know how technology updates can be. Could this be the end of used games at stores? It is stated that when you purchase a game you upload it to your console. If you take the game to another console you will have to pay a fee to upload it to that console. So, scratching of the head, does this mean you buy a used game at a store and then you have to pay another fee online to load it to the console? Also the previous generations will not be able to be played on the Xbox One. Seems gaming companies are getting touch about their titles. Follow the link to more information:
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2013-05-21/microsoft-reveals-new-xbox-one-console
Lost Planet 3 Trailer
CAPCOM is streaming a trailer for the upcoming Lost Planet 3 game on their YouTube channel. The video game will have a June 25, North American and a June 28, European release dates. This has been a popular series so you might want to consider it for you video gaming collections.
New One Piece Game Trailer
The European branch of Namco Bandai Games has released the English One Piece trailer on YouTube. One Piece: Pirates Warriors 2 is one you might want to purchase for your collection especially if you already have the other One Piece video games. The release dates are: Japan, March 20; and the European and American market will be this summer.
House Minority Leader Pelosi Defends Video Games
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi was a guest on the Chris Wallace’s FOX show were he stated “that more research on video games is not needed because the link to violent behavior is obvious, Pelosi pushed back: “the evidence… says that in Japan, for example,… they have the most violent games than the rest and the lowest mortality from guns.”
Pelosi may be referring to an oft-cited study by Max Fisher of the Washington Post which compared per capita video game spending to gun murders in 10 different countries. Japan did indeed have a very low rate of gun deaths, but the really striking examples were South Korea and the Netherlands, where video game spending far outpaced the other countries yet gun murders remained well under 0.5 per 100,000 people. By comparison, U.S. video game spending was below the average, but our gun murders were over 3 per 100,000, statistical light years from any other country in the study.
It is nice to see someone look at all the evidence before just blasting media without looking into everything.
http://cbldf.org/2013/02/pelosi-rejects-link-between-video-games-and-violence/
Pokemon Gates of Infinity Trailer
Nintendo began streaming a trailer for the upcoming Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Gates of Infinity 3DS game. Pokemon is like the old standard and might be one to consider picking up for your gaming collection. It will be available in the North American market on March 24.
Still Outcry on Video Games
More are getting on the band wagon against video games, this time its Senator Charles Grassley (R-IA). This happened with the comic book medium in the 1950’s. Excerpts from the article by Betsy Gomez follows:
The Hill reported on Grassley’s comments, during which Grassley mentioned Call of Duty: Modern Warfare specifically because Anders Behring Breivik, the Norway mass shooter, cited the game as a training tool. During his statement, Grassley asked, “Where is the artistic value in shooting innocent civilians?” He further stated that he shared Vice President Biden’s disbelief in manufacturer claims that video games do not have an impact on real world violence.
Scientific evidence does not support Grassley’s (or Vice President Biden’s) conclusion. The Washington Post‘s Max Fisher recently looked at the statistics related to gun violence in the countries with the highest rate of violent video game usage and found that the United States was a statistical outlier in a trend that actually shows a slight decrease in gun violence as per capita video game usage increases. Further, Kotaku examined 25 years of video game research, looking at both sides of the argument in an article that ultimately supports the idea that there is a lack of scientific evidence supporting a link between violent video games and gun violence.
http://cbldf.org/2013/02/another-senator-blames-video-games-for-violence/