| Software Call of Duty 4 Developer Laments PC Game Piracy
Besides targeting the mass market, there are other reasons for many PC game developers to shift focus to consoles. Call of Duty, a franchise that started on the PC, is now a bona fide hit on current-generation consoles Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. Listed as one of GameStop's top five selling games throughout the holiday season, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare was also amongst the most often played online. Microsoft's Larry Hryb detailed in his blog that Call of Duty 4 was the third most played game on Xbox Live, behind only Halo 3 and Gears of War. Even with the success of the console versions of Call of Duty 4, the developers of the game continue to put effort into extending the life of its work for the PC audience. Coming soon are mod tools for hobbyists to create new game modes, as well as a map editor to make new environments.
Dan Gainor on Fox Biz Discussing Media’s Coverage of Subprime ...
Business & Media Institute Director Dan Gainor appeared on the Fox Business Network December 6 to discuss how the media is choosing sides in the subprime housing problem. "All throughout this whole year and actually if you go back in the last year and before [the media] have been pointing out that the lenders are the bad guys...CBS News who actually did an okay report last night, then the example they use is someone who has a 6.6% adjustable rate adjusting up to 9.6%, they've got a house the size of a mansion and they've got horses." Gainor said the important thing that journalists fail to do is to get both the lenders and the home buyer's viewpoints. In the special report "Debt: Who'$ Responsible?," the Business & Media Institute and Culture and Media Institute pointed out that the media consistently blames business while ignoring the role of personal responsibility.
Curtain Call
Over the course of three days leading up to Christmas, Apocalyptic Butterflies shows us the world of Hank Tater (played by Brandon McCoy) and his wife Muriel (Kate Williams). Hank and Muriel are adjusting to being new parents to a seven-week old, as yet unnamed, baby daughter. Hank’s parents, Francine (Faith Potts) and Dick (Steve Beall), hover at the edges of the scenes. Trudi, (McKenzie Bowling), is the woman with whom Hank is having an affair, and she is planted solidly at the center of the action. The flaw in this production is that there is none of that elusive chemistry between Hank and Muriel. Under the sarcasm and shouting should be revealed the pain of hurt and confusion of lovers uncomfortable in their new roles as parents. It isn’t to be found in the ferocity of anger expressed by Williams as Muriel or in the constant frustration expressed by McCoy.
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