I thought I'd create a thread for lots of little bits of gaming news that don't deserve their own thread, but are worth discussion (or even seeing). Feel free to post stuff you find, or more information on what others find.

So, first up, an idiot gets what's coming to him. Bout time, too. Though I will miss laughing at his completely stupid cases.

Next, Creative Assembly want to have a go on consoles. I really don't see how they would manage to do this effectively, Total War is quite a complex RTS, and trying to use a controller for it would be nigh on impossible.

Finally, Valve and EA don't like the PS3. Well, that was predictable, and I really doubt many people ahve the PS3 version anyway, it was released as an afterthought by the publishers for extra cash.

That is all, for now.

Who is Jack Thompson? Never heard of the guy.

Are you being serious? He's the lawyer who kept trying to file lawsuits against various games for silly things. He had a massive campaign against GTA (something about the stuff is unsuitable for kids, even though it was 18 rated). He also tried to link any violence to games (a high school shooting, for instance). Plus, any game he was against he was completely misinformed about (having no experience of it).

Sounds like a nut job. But I've never heard of him!

You can't call yourself a gamer if you've never heard of him. Go read his Wiki page.

I don't get involved in the boring side of it

It's actually quite funny. Usually ends up on news sites with plenty of ridicule.

Sounds silly. I've played video games since as far as I can remember and have not yet killed anybody AFAIK.

AFAIK? Heh, should we be worried about that?

I mean I did Sonic jump in to my brother once but he didn't die.

LOL

Can't beleive you'd never heard of Wacko Jacko before, Azcn. He's a big giant sack of inverted lemons! Like Skillers said, he got what was coming to him.

Counter strike and doom caused the columbind (not sure on spelling) shooting.
so GTA is probably the cause of cancer

More news;

A good reason to hate Japan.

Steam made more awesome. (other link)

i'm gonna move to japan and make a living selling pirated DVD's to the UK