Positive game promotion counters negative criticism
Kotaku.com has some great videos of popular female celebrities promoting the Nintendo DS portable system. The individuals featured are Carrie Underwood, America Ferrera and Liv Tyler.
Here they are below:
Carrie Underwood’s videos
America Ferrera’s video
Liv Tyler’s video
Ads like these can only be good for Nintendo, and for gaming as a whole. It certainly does its part when balanced against negative press like what is written here. Personally, I think that you can achieve in video games, while it may pale in comparison to several real world achievements, games make me happy; that is a victory in itself.
Games are also profitable too; though I have commented on that in previous posts, this report is noteworthy as well.
Also, I have mentioned in a previous post about the efforts of the ECA (Entertainment Consumers Association) to promote gamer activism. They are now supporting the creation of chapters throughout the U.S. More can be found here. If you are interested, go to their site to find out more.
On that note, I would like to end this post with some humor; this article points out some of the silliest lawsuits involving video games that exist.
Pc Games…
Researchers look up web sites on doings such as this for different motives….