When Will a Game Not Be A Game

With every subsequent iteration of games console comes the promise from game developers of ever more life like experiences and platforms. The actual reality is that getting us humans to believe that what we are seeing is real is exceptionally complicated. Any deviation in what we refer to as 'normal behaviour' causes our brains to reject the object.

Programers and game developers have a real battle on their hands to convince and draw us into the latest games, increasing computer speeds, memory levels and polygons is all very well but creating a non linear believable game will be the big seller .

Sony apologises over violent video game.

This story on the news was baffling. Sony has based one of its most violent video games, 'Resistance: Fall of Man' in Manchester Cathedral. Against the back drop of a beautiful old Cathedral, aliens invade and have to be quickly gunned down! Im not a religious person however I can see how this would cause an uproar within the Anglican community. Although Sony have "sincerely apologised" they also added that they believed they had "sought all necessary permisions." To me I would asume that anyone within the Church of England community would say that to base such a game in any kind of religious place would be distasteful. But maybe the bigger issue here is whether any setting for a viloent video game is considered to be in good taste.