Personally I think that’s a great idea. Games only seem to be in the press whenever another school, mall, college shooting happens, regardless if the assailant ever played a game. There are still too many people that have no idea just how far games have come; someone I was talking to recently hadn’t played a game since Tetris. Compare that to games like Mass Effect that are a completely different level.

And all the people that don’t realise that games aren’t just for kids. According to a BBC study, the average age of UK gamers is 28.

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In Gaming:

• Assassin’s Creed finally [?] out this week

  The wait is over and the game is finally out.

• Mass Effect Launch trailer

  The Mass Effect launch trailer is out and makes me want to play the game even more.

• Review: Splinter Cell Double Agent

  Looking through old files on my PC, I’ve come across this, a review of Splinter Cell Double Agent I wrote for Ignition in November last year.

In TV:

• One Tree Hill

  First there was Dawson’s Creek, then the OC and somewhere in between there is One Tree Hill.

In Blog:

• Consider it blogged – Why Bloggers can’t be trusted

  Found during my travels in the blogsphere.

• Blog Community Writing Project Update 1

  Just a little reminder, the Community writing project is underway and you have until this weekend to submit your entries.

• Blog community writing project.

  This is inspired by Sha’s suggestion over on Matt’s blog who hasn’t blogged in quite a while

• You know, I know you’re here..

  I’m a bit like you.

• New look

  So I finally wanted to be different and distinguish myself from most other wordpress.com users by getting the CSS upgrade and using a different theme.

In life:

• Still bored…

  This is more or less a continuation of my other post a few days ago in which I said I was feeling really ill.

• Bored

  I’m simply bored of being ill now.

And everything else:

• Couple of things

  All of these have been sitting on my desktop for weeks and don’t really warrant an extra post.

• Some Facebook, a bit of Myspace.

  Pretty much everyone these days is registered on a social networking site and more or less active.

Cat

Gee, thanks for telling me I should stop spam!

Via Halolcats.

More one for the Halo fans! ;)

I wish I remembered where this was from, I have no idea. The above is true for all FPS games though!

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And via Sulz, What’s your blogs reading level? Mine is:

I’m still not sure if that’s a good or a bad thing though?

Cat

This was kindly linked to me by Matt. Thanks.

I had to watch the clip several times to understand just how the abbreviations work, but showing this to a few friends they gathered the meaning straight away.

Save the Vowels!

Cat

Is this what we want the world to be like? Full of kids like her?

Judge for yourself, here’s ‘My bff Jill’:

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Pure genius! :D

Cat

“Quadratisch. Praktisch. Gut.” literally translates to “Square. Practical. Good.” which is now a phrase used for everything in Germany.

Another advert, this time from ‘Media Markt‘ is “Ich bin doch nicht blöd” (I am not stupid!) which is as known in Germany, as ‘Tesco’s‘ “Every little helps”.

It is strange how much adverts are ‘influencing’ our lives. I’d like to say that I make any purchase decision without being influenced by adverts, but let’s face it, there are so many of them everywhere, it’s impossible. Like simply buying bread or butter or anything i tend to buy products that I have heard of before. How would I hear about them, other than word of mouth? Yes, that’s right advertisement.

Is that such a bad thing so? Does it really change my life if I buy a product, because it tells me it’s “Square. Practical. Good.”? Maybe it is, maybe there shouldn’t be advertisement, but some of them are just worth remembering. ;)

This is one of the new Media Markt ads in Germany, this had me laughing for a while.

Basically it all builds up to this guy who hasn’t been home for a while, the whole village is glad he’s back and his wife asks him where he’s been. He says he was at the office, doing overtime for the new TV. Cue the Tagline, I’m not stupid, you can get new TV’s much cheaper at Media Markt without spending all your life doing overtime. Brilliant advert!

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