India is taking another lively step toward capitalist nirvana this week: It’s hosting the Sony Playstation Experience for the second year, with more cities added. The video game expo started in Mumbai last weekend, and now it’s going on to Bangalore and Delhi.
“Gaming has increasingly become an accepted form of entertainment amongst the Indian consumer,” [...]
Filed under: South Asia, Video games by Marc Breindel
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It’s a small world after all, which is why Sony had the opportunity to read on a Web forum that some folks don’t want verses from the Koran wafting out of their video games. Sony is therefore removing a song from the new PlayStation game Little Big Planet, because the song contains Koranic lyrics, before [...]
Filed under: Africa, Arab/Persian American, Jewish American, Video games by Marc Breindel
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Video game makers are finally getting hip to the world’s largest market: Women.
Nintendo’s new Wii Fit targets that 51% of the world with two X chromosomes and real curves. The Japanese game company already demonstrated it has a way with the ladies: Original Wii recently became the first console that’s more popular with gals than [...]
Filed under: East Asia, Gender, Video games by Marc Breindel
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Jake Gyllenhaal has officially been cast as Disney’s new action hero: “Prince of Persia,” alongside new Bond gal Gemma Arterton, according to Hollywood Reporter.
Jake & Gemma (right & below) could do for desert sheiks what Johnny Depp & Keira Knightley did for pirates. More importantly, they could help ease global tensions.
U.S. moviegoers should benefit from [...]
Filed under: Arab/Persian American, Middle East, Movies, Video games by Marc Breindel
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