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| Next Gen Wars Drop Out | Wednesday, February 21, 2007 Posted By: Jake
 CIRCLE Studio, the creators of Without Warning went ahead and completely dropped off the face of the earth without warning (I know that was cheesy.)
"The reports added that CEO Jeremy Heath-Smith informed the company's staff about the bad news the other day. Also, it has been said that CiRCLE has gone into liquidation and will cease operations immediately."
The WW game for PS2 and Xbox was actually a fairly respectable game and I really though that we would see CIRCLE Studio in this battle of next gen consoles. I guess I was sadly mistaken.
Lets hope that we don't see anymore decent creators giving up on us.Labels: News
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| "Wii leads January hardware sales in US" | Posted By: Jake
 "According to the preliminary data of the NPD group, the Nintendo Wii leads the January hardware sales in the US. Apparently, it has sold 436,000 units throughout North America. Microsoft's Xbox 360 is in the middle with 294,000 units sold, while the PS3 isn't far behind with 244,000 units.
This preliminary data was allegedly released by Microsoft and has not been officially confirmed by NPD. Molly O'Donnell, group manager for MS' entertainment and devices division said that "Xbox 360 had a fantastic January, and we feel great about our position in the marketplace".
She also added that the X360 experienced an 18 rise in sales compared to the same period last year. We'll be sure to give you more updates about this in the coming days. For now, we all have to make do with this piece of "preliminary data".
(Via QJ)Labels: News
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| Utah gunman - Gamer? | Posted By: Jake
 This is an article from QJ.net and the Utah gunman!
"Recently, we reported police findings on the case of Sulejman Talovic, an 18-year-old Bosnian refugee who walked into the Trolley Square Mall in Salt Lake City, Utah and went shooting into the crowd, killing five and wounding four. The police never found any evidence that violent video games may have influenced Talovic. In fact, they never even found any computer game or video game system in Talovic's home.
But now, another lead surfaced: Talovic's friend, Enes Kadic (left pic), claims that his friend Sulejman did play computer games. Kadic, who went to seventh grade with Talovic, said that "combat games, fighting games, Super Mario..." are the sort of games that Talovic liked to play. Talovic also liked to watch movies with violence, his friend said. "He liked watching fighting movies. He liked watching those fist-fighting movies and movies where they shoot each other. He liked watching those type of movies," he added.
According to Kadic, Talovic was quiet and not very talkative. He kept mostly to himself and didn't leave his house after school. At least once a week, though, Kadic would convince his shy friend to watch movies at his house or play video games at Talovic's house.
This new evidence leaves us all out in the open. Still, the fact that Talovic did play computer games is a poor indication that Talovic was convinced to shoot people because of gaming influence. His eight-grade math teacher at Hillside Intermediate School, Virginia Lee, said that Talovic was just a young man who wanted to be social, to belong.
Talovic's friend Kadic says that he still cannot believe it was his friend who did the shooting claiming that "it's pretty crazy to me he did that. He's the last person on Earth I thought would do that." Talovic may have been any one of us, and we do feel sorry for his victims.
The gunman might have had his reasons for going postal that day, yet must we always point blame on the gaming industry? After all, we've never heard of anybody else going on a shooting rampage after a round of playing Super Mario..."Labels: News
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