How’d I miss this one? Yet another of the attempts to tie in media to a chat platform, Virtual Laguna Beach is apparently MTV using There.com’s platform. Based on a cursory glance, it replicates quite a lot of Laguna Beach detail, to a level beyond most of the environments that you usually see in There itself.
Looks like I have gotten into a bit of a squabble over in the Gamasutra letters column.
David Lannan wrote that “Koster has lost the plot” in response to the Gamasutra summary of the speech at AGC:
Over at the Station.Com Blog, John Smedley is discussing the rise of digital distribution, picking a bone with Michael Pachter, whose comments on the future of the PC gaming business were recently featured along with those of a bunch of another analysts in a Gamasutra article.
While I was at AGC I did a GameSpot interview that is now posted.
GS: Right now we’re seeing a lot of game legislation efforts and criticism of the Entertainment Software Ratings Board. Pretty much all store-bought games carry that rating symbol, and the reason the ratings are so important is because retailers won’t carry any games without them. But you say we’re going online, where there is no requirement for the ESRB to be involved in any way, shape or form. As online gaming grows bigger, are we just going to have this exact same sex, violence, and ratings argument again?
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It doesn’t seem to have been noticed too much yet, but $4.99 games for download are coming to the iPod alongside the new movies initiative that Apple is launching.
