Comments on: The Geekbox: Episode 18

By: sam

sam — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 08:59:18 +0000

Germany is indeed the most populous country in Europe (if you don’t count Russia as part of Europe, that is). And there are certain games that you can’t buy here. You CAN buy Call of Duty, but you’re right – there are no swastikas in it. My husband, who’s German, loves playing Call of Duty: he’s happy to shoot Nazis. I don’t think most Germans really think about it all that much; if they like first-person shooters, it doesn’t really matter what the subject of the game is, you know? There are certain instances where the use of swastikas is allowed, such as certain academic and satirical contexts, but video games don’t fall into that category. Hellboy 1 and Command & Conquer are also available here (although I haven’t seen the movie or played the game *embarrassed*, so I can’t say whether they cut anything out).

Interestingly enough, though, you can’t get most of the Mortal Kombat games here. Germany has restrictive laws when it comes to violent games, so games that are deemed too “graphic” or that have violence that’s too realistic get banned. Of course, you can basically order anything from the UK and have it delivered here, so that’s no problem if that’s the sort of thing you’re into.

By: Huy

Huy — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 17:55:16 +0000

Ah, too bad the survey is closed. I only knew about it from the podcast.

By: mikecardii

mikecardii — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 12:23:02 +0000

Loved the podcast, love that it’s raw. I saw Up with my little sister and absolutely loved it. I’m not normally a fan of sad movies, either.

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 09:53:12 +0000

I just want to point out another Burn Notice intro change. Sometime last season they changed Sam’s intro line from “an old friend who informs on you to the FBI” to “an old friend who used to inform on you to the FBI”

By: fearbefore

fearbefore — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 23:14:06 +0000

The unit they were playing Ruse on was a Microsoft Surface, which runs on a special version of Vista. We have a dev unit in office, so I should see if Ubisoft is selling it at a discount rate.

By: jin

jin — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 10:33:35 +0000

hahah same here, used to be annoying we’d suddenly get a spasm of BAM and then a black-out after… my ex could say the same ohohohoho

By: The Geekbox: Episode 18

The Geekbox: Episode 18 — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 08:48:20 +0000

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By: crscheid

crscheid — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 06:19:07 +0000

Woah, Ryan (Scott). Let’s just call you Mr. Green! Next stop, 2007!

By: sdf

sdf — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 05:02:25 +0000

One tradition I’m glad to see die is “journalists” taking a damn month off after E3.