If you've already moved beyond Grand Theft Auto IV, you can look forward to a 50 Cent-themed game, Blood on the Sand, coming out this fall. Though, judging from most of the comments on the linked page, gamers aren't going to like it any more than music fans liked his last album.
---Cary Darling
Controversy? What controversy? The first reviews for the latest edition of Grand Theft Auto are generally raves.
---Cary Darling
I don't think these folks are going to be too pleased with that news.
-- Robert Philpot
Who would have thought that Showtime's Dexter, now airing on CBS, would spawn this?
---Cary Darling
Grand Theft Auto 4, the highly anticipated sequel in one of the video game world's most successful (and controversial) franchises, finally has a release date: April 29.
---Cary Darling
I kid you not. You can even choose sides. Most likely to be played by people who don't look like Denzel Washington or Russell Crowe.
--Robert Philpot
Of course they're art. I don't even play them and I know that. And, considering that they kick the movie biz's butt in annual gross sales, they're pretty good commerce, too.
--Robert Philpot
Veteran film critic Roger Ebert (top) and veteran horror writer Clive Barker (below right, with his pal) are going toe to toe over whether video games are art. It's a hot topic, especially on the week that hallowed Halo 3 hit stores. You can follow the fisticuffs here
Barker calls Ebert "a pompous, arrogant old man." Ouch.
Maybe Clive is still touchy from Ebert calling saying of Hellraiser: "Who goes to see movies like this? What do they get out of them? I like good horror movies because I enjoy being surprised (and sometimes even moved), but there are no surprises in Hellraiser only a dreary series of scenes that repeat each other. What fun is it watching the movie mark time until the characters discover the obvious? This is a movie without wit, style or reason, and the true horror is that actors were made to portray, and technicians to realize, its bankruptcy of imagination."
---Cary Darling
