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Why Some Games don’t get the Publicity they should

I was having a conversation recently with a friend regarding the media and video games. Why do some games get more attention than others? Why can great games go unnoticed and sit in the dark, while other promising and creative titles sit on the shelves at GameStop for months without anyone touching them.

The answer? Large News Corporations. Yeah, it sounds stupid. “Uhhrrr why would the News want our video games?” Well my friends, over the last few years, the video game Industry has grown and become an acceptable form of media entertainment. So much in fact that it caught the eye of Forbes Billionaire Rupert Murdoch.

Now I’m going to go off on a tangent here, but bhelieve me, you will want to follow along.

Rupert Murdoch is the owner of the ‘News Corporation’. Now you may not know this company by name, but I’m sure you’ve heard of every single company that the News Corporation owns…
-20th Century Fox
-Fox News
-G4 Telivision
-MySpace Inc.
-Imeem.com
-Electronic Arts
-People Magazine

The list can go on, but I think that sums it up quite well, but back to the point. Every video game company these days have parent companies. The example shown here specifically links Electronic Arts to all the other companys on the list. This means that when EA releases a shitface ass-licking fuckup, it becomes the next big thing, because instantly its slapped all over the homepage of MySpace. It gets it’s dick stroked by the idiots on G4TV. Big sexy commercials get thrown up on every Fox Channel. Every magazine owned by the News Coproration will feature “Madden 2010 the Third”. You see where I’m goin?

Like the film industry, television, radio, and anything that appeals to people… video games are slowly being bought out by large media organizations.

So here’s my request to you. Go out of your way. Search for unique looking games. Support the Indie market, download from the Xbox Live arcade. There’s good stuff out there guys, don’t go buy something just because the TV tlls you too.