Looks like the gaming industry is making another push for the mainstream conscience, as you could be seeing some trailers for M-rated games in theaters in the near future. The ESRB (Entertainment Software Ratings Board) has made tweaks to the restrictions placed on marketing Mature-rated games. Publishers can now put up trailers for M-rated games before a movie plays at the theaters.
The upcoming Splinter Cell: Blacklist is boasting quite the bevy of special editions available for your choosing. There are four different options (five if you include the previously announced Paladin Multi-Mission Aircraft Edition) that you can choose from come August 31, 2013.
Developing a game that's inspired or even derivative of another title is nothing new in the gaming industry. Look at Call of Duty. Is it the first time a game has ever let you look down the scope of a gun via first-person perspective? No -- it took from what other first-person shooters had already offered and put its own spin on the genre.
Kratos, anti-hero of the upcoming God of War: Ascension, has never been known to hold back. Hell, he decapitated an Olympian god with his bare hands and gutted a titan from the inside, spilling guts and gallons of blood without a nanosecond of hesitation. So it's only natural that God of War developers Sony Santa Monica want to ratchet up the brutality in order to avoid the dreaded been-there-done-that syndrome. Unfortunately, reaching that goal meant striking the nerve of many gamers and press members, but the uproar isn't even stemming from the violence.
Game of Thrones is all about rewarding the patient viewer. The show has proven that they already have a very passionate core fanbase that is steadily growing and as with many television shows, this viewership is absolutely essential in justifying the production of a program.
