All the new entertainment (Games, Music, DVDs and Blu-Ray) that will be out and available this week (26/10/15 to 30/10/15) in most stores near you (England).
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James Rolfe’s Angry Video Game Nerd character is well-known among the gaming community for hes short tempered and foul-mouthed video game antics which he shows the world in he’s quite regular YouTube videos. James Rolfe has been making an Angry Video Game Nerd feature film from donations he received from fans. It was filmed mostly last year but it’s still in post production. A recently released trailer shows that the film is coming on nicely.
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Yesterday The Walt Disney Company announced a deal to acquire Lucasfilm for $4.05 billion, with half in cash and half in shares of The Walt Disney Company stock. This isn’t much of a surprise seeing as in the past Lucasfilm and The Walt Disney Company have worked together to create Star Wars and Indiana Jones attractions for Walt Disney Parks and Resort attractions across the world. At the same time as this announcement a new Star Wars film was announced. Currently its called Star Wars Episode VII and is expected to be released in 2015.
The excellent 80s Miami, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, American Psycho, Drive inspired game Hotline Miami came out last week and I just got round to mentioning it now. It’s a very violent game but one that makes you think of how to solve the various puzzle like rooms and what the heck is going on around you. Is it a dream? drug and/or alcohol induced mayhem, are you a cop?, a hitman? or just someone out to get revenge? I am still trying to work it out as I play through.
Markus “Notch” Persson has written on he’s blog recently about the issues of gender in Minecraft. Notch says he’s original intention when designing the game was to have the playable character “Steve” to be entirely genderless. He also says that he regrets adding a goatee to the character and that the character name Steve came from a joke response when someone asked him about the character.
This gave me an idea to explore about gender in games such as Minecraft and Tomb Raider while looking at how films handle this problem at the same time. Also I will explain why sex and gender is important in the various entertainment mediums.
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