Saving trees and more
1. Ubisoft saves trees, scraps manuals
(cnet.com, Josh Lownsohn)
Ubisoft is just one of many game publishers to only make digital manuals available for the players. I say, good riddance. I still need to localize it into German. Especially good when renting console games from your neighbourhood game store. The booklets are missing anyway. On top of that, Ubisoft plans to deliver the games in a “a 100 percent recycled DVD case made up of polypropylene”. Replace polypropylene with cardboard and you are on the right way, guys.
2. How to detect bad games before spending money
(videogamezone.de, in German)
This is a nice top ten. My favourites: 3. Game and movie are released at the same time. So very true. When was the last time we got excited about a game released with a movie? Stop thinking about it. 6. No German speech, no German text. Yes, if the makers don’t invest into localization, they either have the best game of the century or one for the bottom of the barrel.
3. When the most powerful man mentions video games…
(Gamasutra, Kris Graft)
…we should quote him: “With iPods and iPads and Xboxes and PlayStations, — none of which I know how to work — information becomes a distraction, a diversion, a form of entertainment, rather than a tool of empowerment, rather than the means of emancipation.”
