The ESA is the representative of almost all the major gaming companies and having Activision, one of the biggest gaming companies out there, leave is a pretty big blow to a group that has been hearing murmurs of dissension for a while now over ESRB ratings and
the public face of gaming.
Not exact matches
Granted, this is something unique to the
gaming industry, with figureheads and suits often the representative
public face of the company, whether through E3 press conferences,
gaming launch events, or the like, but it's still an interesting phenomenon nonetheless.
The hashtag made the general
gaming public aware
of some
of the poor conditions video game VAs
face from some
of the biggest names in voice acting and got people talking.
Perhaps you will argue that it's a bit
of a slap in the
face, or that we, the
gaming public, are expected to be essentially free labour.
Of course, this isn't confirmation, and we don't know if this is a straight port, a remake or a remaster (let's
face they need to sort those controls out before they release it on the
gaming public)
The Super Mario series not only crafted the world
of gaming that we know and love today, but it pioneered a beloved genre to perfection and also introduced iconic characters that've become synonymous with the entire
gaming medium as a whole, with Mario himself becoming the
public face of the Big N, which at one point was a renowned playing card and toy company.
In recent years, MIT students have
faced legal challenges for groundbreaking and creative work: an MIT student arrested by homeland security for wearing e-textiles who eventually dropped out; MIT researchers who found security flaws in
public transportation systems; and a gradstudent whose research helped hobbyists extend the capabilities
of their
gaming hardware.