The Power Of Games

In my lecture today it was suggested that games could be the future of journalism. Philip Trippenbach suggested that people can learn about news issues through playing games. Personally i disagree with this, Trippenbach suggests that games involve people in the issue which means they will understand it more. I agree that being involved in the story will make you understand it more but i can't see games being the main platform for this.

For people to play games they must be interesting and entertaining, but can you make an interesting game about the financial crisis? Personally I don't think you can. Yes it will work for some subjects, and yes it will appeal to a certain audience but I disagree that it will become one of the most powerful forms of journalism.

The xx

So happy The xx won the mercury prize, just like to point out that I predicted that, which you can see a few posts down, clearly the best album of the year, still sounds brilliant after almost a year.

Now if they would please announce a new UK tour I would be very happy.

Ok I Was Wrong

When the line up for Reading and Leeds was announced I questioned whether the reformed Libertines would be there for the right reasons, if they even turned up. I'm quite happy to say I was wrong.

Ok so they did get paid an extortionate amount of money and I'm sure even Carl will admit the money had a lot to do with it, but they showed up and the stormed it. They loved it, the critics loved it and the crowd loved it, so much so that during both legs their set had to be paused to allow some over excited fans to calm down. Yes they sounded a bit rusty, but The Libertines have always been about more than sounding good.

It almost couldn't have gone any better and although crowd interaction was kept to a minimum, with tunes such as Time for Heros, Boys In The Band and Up The Bracket they didn't need to say anything.

For the first time in years Pete and Carl let their music do the talking, hopefully it will stay like that.