November 7, 2007 3:15 PM
Hooking your kids on XBox games
From the At Least They're Honest department:
''We do a lot of testing to make sure that it's easy to pick up, easy to play, and, hopefully, easy to get addicted to,'' says designer Paul Bertone Jr. ''Some games, after you die, a box saying 'Do you want to continue?' will pop up. We never ask you if you want to stop playing.''Paul Bertone Jr., of Microsoft's Bungie Studios, talking about his team's approach to the eagerly anticipated Halo 3 (Entertainment Weekly, 9/7/07)
You can find the full article - in which Bertone & Co's research is characterized as "Big Bortheresque (guess what's not okay for the government is okay for Microsoft) - here.
HT to Plugged In magazine.
Also see
The violent side of video games
and my related Consumer proof your teens.
Love,
Posted in Boys, Culture, Teens and Tweens | Permalink
