CNN Levels Up With Positive Game Press.

In a recent article on CNN's website, the news behemoth interviewed the developers of Flower, Flow and Cloud on their recent artistic contributions to the hobby. This seems to be the closest thing to positive press video games have gotten in a long time, as someone is finally standing up and recognizing that Mortal Kombat and Grand Theft Auto aren't the only games that have ever been made.

+1 for CNN.

Hmm. +1 indeed.

I'm sorry no one else posted on this. I found it on the main page and thought the link was interesting. Oh well. I appreciate it anyway.

/clap

+1 from me as well.

If only we still had the post rating system :P.

Hahaha. I thought this thread was lost to the depths of the forum. Oh well, good thing someone got the chance to give it a look.

It just popped up to the top. I guess the thread was dead for so long, the body finally rose to the surface. Expect it to drop in a week :P.

I guess if the games didn't suck, it would've been more worthwhile.  Still, it IS nice to see games that don't involve sex, drugs, violence, blood, gore, and Rapelay getting in the press.

CNN's willingness to shed a positive light on Flower in no way bespeaks a change of heart for the network.  Flower, from the perspective of the American news media, has far more in common with Toy Story and Pixar than it does Mario or video games.  It is that sort of cognitive dissonance that will result in clips of Doom and Call of Duty filling TV screens the next time an angry teen decides to shoot up his school. 

And as far as the allocation of points is concerned, no network that still gives credence to the idea that players of violent video games are predisposed to antisocial behavior will be receiving any of mine.

"CNN's willingness to shed a positive light on Flower in no way bespeaks a change of heart for the network."

"Flower, from the perspective of the American news media, has far more in common with Toy Story and Pixar than it does Mario or video games.  It is that sort of cognitive dissonance that will result in clips of Doom and Call of Duty filling TV screens the next time an angry teen decides to shoot up his school."

"And as far as the allocation of points is concerned, no network that still gives credence to the idea that players of violent video games are predisposed to antisocial behavior will be receiving any of mine."

That is undeniable. 

" Still, it IS nice to see games that don't involve sex, drugs, violence, blood, gore, and Rapelay getting in the press."

A lot of the mainstream media does present games in a positive light. It's not all "Video games will turn you into mindless murdering rapists!!!!". That is usually a very small section of the media.

No, pretty much all of the big news outlets hate video games. Most local avaneues that I've seen as well. At least, that's the case in the US. The only news outlets that really support video games are well, the gaming press.

Played flower and to be honest, no, it's nothing.  You're just flying through the air.  Who cares?
Why is it that we have to be told blatanty when to look for this and when not to?  Had Braid not be full of pre-hype for this, people would have seen it as a good, but not great, platforme

Played flower and to be honest, no, it's nothing.  You're just flying through the air.  Who cares?
Why is it that we have to be told blatanty when to look for this and when not to?  Had Braid not be full of pre-hype for this, people would have seen it as a good, but not great, platforme

Wow, that Kellee Santiago has one disturbing face.

Kudos to CNN for this positive press.

"My point, really, is that I deny it. It is my view that the video games that have wound up being lauded by the media, your Flowers and Wii Sports, have had no effect on the public perception of more hardcore video games.  Those more acceptable games are viewed distinctly from video-games by the public, and considered separately from the games of the thumb-on-stick variety that most here play.  No number of reports on these casual games, then, will ever produce any sort of change in perception in what most I readily define as a video game.  The best analogy I can muster for this, at least from the perspective of the resistant public, is broadcasting the Yu-Gi-Oh anime and hoping that people will eventually be okay with prime-time hentai.  Our understanding that the trappings of Gears of War and MySims are essentially the same means nothing unless some association occurs.  "

Those games remind me of doing drugs.

"Those games remind me of doing drugs."

"Claude said:

"Those games remind me of doing drugs."

You must be doing some absurd drugs. We should talk, exchange dealer information. =P"