Parent outaged by nude pictures on XBL!

Breaking news! Incompetent parent's children see nude pictures on "X-box" live!

Last Thursday, a woman only known as Jennifer, reported that her two children had been exposed to nude pictures while playing a game on "X-box" Live. As any good parent would, Jennifer immediately turned off the system and phoned "X-box" Live. Apparently the evil haven for sexual predators told her there was "nothing they could do about it."

Gasp, shock and awe, "X-box" I'm surprised at you! Anyone with half a brain knows you can block gamertags, report them for abuse and set up parental controls, which not only limit access online for children, but also prevent them from playing games with M ratings.



First off, since when can you send pictures via XBL? I know I haven't used the service in a while but, I'm not entirely sure that feature even exists. Secondly, I doubt Support actually told her there was "nothing they could do about it." Support most likely told her about all the actions she could take, but she just hung up, outraged by someone telling to get off her lazy ass and do some parenting.

How dare they!



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-Ryizzel

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Juno as a video game?

Yes, you read the title right, Juno is getting a freaking game.

For those of you who don't know,(the cave dwellers), Juno is a romantic comedy starring Arrested Development's Micheal Cera and Jason Bateman. It's been Nominated for 4 Oscars and apparently did pretty well in the box office.

Yesterday, at the D.I.C.E. summit in Las Vegas, the intellectual-property migration specialist, Keith Boesky was quoted saying "People are making a game based on Juno just to cater to the [casual] market."

...Sigh...

I really hope they are kidding about this game. To be honest, I've never heard of such a bad idea for a game before. I just don't understand why Hollywood feels that it needs a video game for every "blockbuster" movie. The only people who buy movie games are clueless parents and fans of the movie expecting a quality re-creation for them to play through. Surely there can't be that much of them buying these games to make them profitable for the studios.

Take Beowulf for example, excellent movie, but gave birth to a shitty game. The average review for the game is 4.6 and guess what? It sells for 20 dollars...new(No seriously check it out).




-ryizzel

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