JFK Assassination Game Defended as &#39;Educational&#39;
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A British company has released a video game re-creating the assassination of President Kennedy. A spokesperson for the president&#39;s brother, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, called the game &quot;despicable.
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A computer game that allows players to assassinate US president John F Kennedy was attacked by his relatives. The game, &quot;JFK Reloaded,&quot; is being released by Traffic Games today to coincide with the 21st anniversary of Kennedy&#39;s murder.
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Just in time for today&#39;s 41st anniversary of President John F. Kennedy&#39;s assassination, a tasteless Internet game is being launched that lets players be Lee Harvey Oswald.
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The game designer, Scottish company Traffic, is also sponsoring a contest in which the person who most closely matches Oswald&#39;s shots will win up to $100,000, depending on how many people download the game.
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In a rant vilifying iPods and machines in general, the pundit implies America is at risk because our kids play video games instead of learning to kill real people and geeks can't carry on a conversation. So why does O'Reilly have a premium subscription available as a podcast? In Cult of Mac.
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Some game makers are trying to get players to expand their horizons by reflecting on news events in games
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A PC game produced by Scottish firm Traffic Games has come under fire from the family of former US president John F Kennedy for allowing gamers to play through his assassination as sniper Lee Harvey Oswald.
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A computer game that allows users to play the role of Kennedy assassin Lee Harvey Oswald was released Monday by Traffic Games, a Scottish software company.
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A British firm seeking to capitalize on the anniversary of President John F. Kennedy&#39;s murder today is issuing ``JFK Reloaded,&#39;&#39; a purportedly educational ``docu-game&#39;&#39; that lets players
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A British company says it&#39;s releasing a game that recreates the 1963 assassination of President Kennedy, the senator&#39;s brother.
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Are games based on the Vietnam conflict making us immune to realities of history?
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A new video game &quot;JFK Reloaded&quot; released at the time which coincides with the 41st anniversary of Kennedy&#39;s murder stirs up so much controversy that even its producers can hardly expect.
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The Internet hath no fury like a gamer scorned. Thatâs the lesson Fox News and a self-help author learned this week after a program on that channel featured a discussion of the sexual content of the hit video game Mass Effect.
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Tycho:  Having played collectible card games since the original printing of Magic - taking my dishwasher's tips across the street to Dragon Tails to secure boosters for the coveted Arabian Nights - seeing Gabriel take up the pastime has warmed (but not thawed) my black heart.  It's always a portion of myself I've bridled in his presence, kept hidden, suppressed may be the word.  To have him take it up so freely makes me wonder which perversion of mine he'll take up next.    When he started talking about his "Firestarter" deck, whose dancing fires were stoked by a mysterious device known as "The Holon Engine," I began to worry.  The dangers of Netdecking are fairly substantial when it comes to friendly play, a corrosive force that turns friendly pick-up games into ostentatious displays of wealth on par with rap videos.  If you're playing in a competitive venue, building on prior art and making loads of precision purchases is probably your only recourse.  But if you're just playing at lunch, let me be clear:  you are consorting with devils.    I took time over the weekend to hit the level cap in Call of Duty 4, and then just to be sure that I understood what was going on I played for several more hours.  I'm not the most skilled player you will encounter, with a roughly equal number of kills and deaths, but I prefer to think of my work in an assassinative context - the removal of key players at key moments.  Please let me have this.  In the absence of the game's deeply integrated progression scheme, Infinity Ward would merely have created one of the best shooters available today.  It would have staunch proponents, and they would be right to praise it.  Is there a substance within cream that can rise to the top of itself?  This substance has been discovered.  As a distillation of the Infantry FPS, this is right down to it.  This is brutal, unrepentant, bathtub fucking hooch.  It is tight and smooth, it is lethal.  Unrelenting in its intensity, your first rounds - indeed, your first few levels - will be spent without the succor of CoD4's rich rewards for continued play.  But you'll see them on the killcam, every time you go down:  this one has increased health, of course that would help.  This one does more damage.  This one, after he's killed, pulls his sidearm and takes a few final shots.  This one's shots retain more of their damage after they pass through a wall.        You earn these for leveling up, with the experience you gain for every kill, for every round.  You also earn experience for Challenges, which are (collectively) "awesome things that you did."  I completed X-Ray challenges last night for killing people behind walls, which dished up bonus XP - this is displayed with exultant audio and video cues at the very moment of success.  Killing while crouched, killing while prone, taking down an enemy helicopter, this is all gravy.  There are challenges specific to your weapon, as well:  for kills and headshots with that firearm, you travel down an upgrade path unique to that weapon that reveals sights, camouflage patterns, and other tools to customize your equipment.    Watching videos of multiplayer play online, you'll get the impression that it looks better than it does.  It looks fantastic, don't get me wrong, but it's not completely photorealistic.  What it does have is an extremely reliable framerate and excellent level design, so that during the experience of play these fantastic visuals are transmuted into something sublime.  Here's what I mean:  if a friend is over, and they are watching you play, they'll be able to detect flaws here and there.  Level geometry isn't especially fanciful, and blown paper or leaves look a little strange.  But for the player, movement is just right, player models are just right, and the environments are right so that moment to moment everything gels.      As I said on Friday, to bring this thing into the house of Halo is pretty ballsy - but it'll carve out its proper due.  On the Playstation 3, what force could stand against it?  I have a high opinion of Haze, but I've never played it - that's based mostly on my gut.  Call of Duty 4 will fall hard on that system, like shrieking artillery.
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GLASGOW - A new downloadable video game allows gamers to assume the role of Lee Harvey Oswald, the assassin who killed US president John F. Kennedy.
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&quot;JFK Reloaded&quot; from Scottish videogame company Traffic Games lets you become Lee Harvey Oswald and recreate the assassination of JFK.
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God games in which  players must control virtual people could be educational, says research.