Archive for October 2008
Top Gear Wins NTA Award. AGAIN!
Top Gear UK has won it’s third British National Television Award in a row. Well deserved of course as it is the most original, fun and refreshing Television program on anywhere in the world currently. Well done chaps!
Watch the quite funny video of The Stig accepting the award below.
“TOP GEAR IS BACK”
You’ll have to forgive me for this moment of excitement, but WOO HOO. Top Gear is always one show that is a must watch because its original, something that rubbish American networks need to get into there thick heads looking at the crap that they’ve been shoveling out these last few years! (Two & A Half Men excluded of course)
Come November 2, intelligent people the World over (thanks to bit torrent) will get there fix again when series 12 airs in England in a few weeks. Begin countdown! Oh yeah.
Presidential Election Advertising.
Obama NBA09 In Game Advertising
It’s a funny World we live in these days. Gone are the days of regular newspaper, radio or TV advertising. We live in a connected world and now we find real World advertising jumping into a virtual world. Players in certain American states will find billboard’s within the game Burnout Paradise & NBA09 for Barack Obama’s Presidential campaign. This I find quite ironic considering Obama blames video games amongst other things as the cause of underachievement amongst the younger generation. Personally I disagree. Lack of discipline is the issue in my books but that’s for another story.
This in game advertising gets me thinking though. Here I am sitting in Australia and I’m bombarded left and right with news about the upcoming American election between and old geriatric and a black man with the middle name of “Hussain”. The question I’ve got to ask is why? Why do we get bombarded by news of the US election when it is of no concern to someone in Australia. Or is it? Many consider the office of the President Of The United States, leader of the free world. If this is the case, does he become my leader too?
Apparently, yes! While the President doesn’t have any effect on us Australians in a governance sense, the decisions made by the President and his administration do have an effect on us indirectly. After all, look at the problems the World is having economically and militarily today! The world is effectively stuffed! So, seeing that this “leader of the free world” does indeed have an effect on my way of life, why don’t we get a vote too? Why do we leave the job to a bunch of loud, obnoxius, arrogant, gun toting, gum chewing yanks who’s IQ levels have to be questioned considering the choices they have made the last eight years. If they best they’ve been able to come up with is a C grade student with awful verbal skills, were in trouble!
Halo Recon Teaser?
Bungie software has presented the World with several new teaser images from there new game. Most likely this is for the new game “Halo Recon” which was originally supposed to be announced at E3 earlier in the year but was at the last minute pulled from announcement.
If this image is from a new Halo game as is expected, the only question I have to ask is: Will the new Halo game be something original and exciting, or will it be a turgid piece of derivative unoriginal shit like the previous two Halo games or will they take a risk and create something different?
Somehow I think not.
