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Gameboy never to return?
Written by NexGen
Sunday, 02 December 2007
Nintendo senior vice president of marketing George Harrison all but confirms the death of the Game Boy product line for any still thinking the company may continue its “three pillar” approach to making hardware.
Game Boy finally calling it quits?
Game Boy finally calling it quits?
“This year in our marketing you really won't see much push against Game Boy itself,” Harrison told GameDaily in an interview. “It's hard to say in the future if we will ever bring back the Game Boy trademark.”
“It was a big risk for us to actually pass on it and call the new product the Nintendo DS, but it was part of Mr. Iwata's philosophy that if we're going to make a radical difference and try to reach a new audience, then we have to change the name,” he added implying that the “third pillar” strategy was merely used as a marketing backup in case the DS didn't catch on which it obviously has. “We had to make a break even though we had one of the greatest trademarks in the history of the industry.”
The news comes as Shigeru Miyamoto confirmed to Kotaku that Nintendo has stopped producing GBA games in favor of complete development for Wii and DS titles. Only third-party game makers continue to support the once-popular handheld line.
The Game Boy brand is the most dominant handheld of all time. To date, all variations (including the original Game Boy, Game Boy Color, and Game Boy Advance) have sold a reported 200 million units worldwide. >> Discuss This (33 comments) Comment (0)
World's worst Mom blames rockstar for turning her son into a killer
Written by NexGen
Sunday, 02 December 2007
At 10.30am, he spotted 33-year-old nurse Cheryl, having a smoke in the grounds of St George's Hospital, in nearby Hornchurch, and pounced — plunging the blade 72 times into her back, neck, face, chest and skull.
Police soon captured Harling after he dumped the ‘kit', which had his address on the mail-order packaging. In Spain his stunned parents could not believe the news.
“I knew he was playing the video games but we didn't really know what went on in them, how brutal and graphic they were.”
“I know these games are played by kids across the world, but some are truly horrific.
”And if they can cause a trigger to be pulled in someone's head they should be banned.
“Now I feel like people are looking at me, as if I should have read the signs. But I had no idea.”
“I didn't really know what they were about. I think most parents are the same. But Stuart wasn't in his room on the PlayStation all the time. He was a normal boy. He wasn't that outgoing, but he had friends. He never did anything that made us worry.
”I was his mother, but I'd no idea what was happening." -murderer's mother Lorraine age 45
Why did you buy it for him if you didn't do the research to find out how bloody it is? He wasn't even old enough when you bought it for him. It's no trigger he's just mentally insane, not that YOU'd know, you weren't an active enough parent to get him help when he needed it.
The trial was told how police discovered that, before the murder, Harling spent days on the internet talking to paedophiles and researching serial killers such as the infamous Dennis Nielsen.
She knew something was wrong AFTER the murder when he wouldn't kiss her..... maybe that's European thing..... When she saw him the day after the murder she had no idea he had grown a beard. I think I'd notice that.
You'll notice that in Europe there is a new fad among parents where they let the kids run free while they go out and drink the results are twofold. The mentally ill don't get treatment, and little Maddi is left unattended and kidnapped by pedobear. This is why I hated Europe so much, it's like America in the 80s, so damned selfish. >> Discuss This (-1 comments) Comment (7)
