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Any doubts that motion technology was a short-lived fad have been proven wrong by the Playstation 3 Move’s sales. Over 1.5 million units have been shipped in Europe and 1 million in the US and Latin America. This is countering rumours that the Move technology had been a costly, gimmicky flop, and probably means that in the future more motion-sensitive games will be churned out to satisfy the new casual gamer market; whether this is a long-term market is yet to be seen.
Also speaking of sales, Medal of Honor has sold a healthy 1.5 million copies. The British Defence Secretary Liam Fox had called for UK game retailers not to stock the game due to a level where allegedly you became a Taliban member shooting at British soldiers. Unfortunately for Dr. Fox this was not the case, as there were no British soldiers within the game. Games retailers undertook standard procedure for when someone clueless tells them what to do: they ignored him. With the news of motion technology taking control of the market and the rise of casual gaming, Medal of Honor has secured a victory for the First Person Shooter genre, cementing the tradition of shooting other people into gunk and insulting them over the internet.
Apple has shown the world its latest shiny toy, the MacBook Air. At 0.11 inches thick, it is seen as an amalgamation of the iPad and MacBook, with no hard drive and reliant entirely on flash memory. In addition, Apple are introducing an App store for their computers, so people can waste even more time on Angry Birds than they do already. With billions of apps sold, micro-gaming has become a massive industry, and also a great way to time-waste; people estimated that when the Google homepage featured an interactive version of Pacman, millions of dollars were lost when employees played it.
I think Yahtzee put it best in his E3 review for Zero Punctuation when he described the Playstation Move as "using a controller that's completely different to the Wiimote because it's got a big shiny BELL END. In all seriousness, this is just sad - it's like a huge smelly tramp putting a spandex leotard on over his crusty trousers and trying to enter a children's athletics competition. [GROO]"
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/1838-E3-2010
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