Crackerwax

Video games have a bad reputation. We’re told they’re responsible for a nation of fat, indolent children, that they condone – nay encourage – violent behaviour.

Whilst I certainly wouldn’t want any child of mine playing Resident Evil 5, Dead Space or – God forbid – any of the relentlessly tiresome Grand Theft Auto series, I wouldn’t object to them playing video games per se, much in the same way that I wouldn’t object to them watching films. In both cases I’d just want to ensure that what they watched or played was suitable.

You see all of the games I’ve mentioned above have 18 certificates in the UK and just like movies with the same rating shouldn’t be sold to anyone under the age of eighteen. It’s all fairly straightforward, these games are just not suitable, the fact that they are just games changes nothing. (more…)

Games™ and their appalling proof reading.

I’d always thought that writing for a magazine would mean that you had a good grasp of the language you were writing in. Look at this from the Gmaes™ review of Guitar Hero III.

The bit underlined in red is unforgivable. What sort of people do they have writing for them, glue sniffers?

I just cannot understand why it is that Gmaes™ never spot these errors before they go to print. what does their editor do? I can’t believe for one second that the entire magazine isn’t proofread before publication? I mean, really?

Come on, I know timescales are tight in the magazine business but fundamental errors of grammar like this shouldn’t happen, let alone be allowed out there in the published magazine.

Still, I could of really loosed my temper over there disregard, this as to stop.