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Saturday, May 05, 2007Video game play premieres tonight ...Hey, "Spider-Man: The Musical" is coming (so, so torn), so why not "Counter-Strike: The Play"?OK, it's actually called "First Person Shooter", it's from the mind of Aaron Loeb from Planet Moon Studios (the brilliant Armed & Dangerous / Giants: Citizen Kabuto / MDK), and it premieres tonight at the San Francisco Playhouse. Here's the official summary of the play: First Person Shooter takes us inside 'JetPack Games', a start-up video gameAaron Loeb was a video game reporter at the time of the Littleton, Colorado shootings: "[Loeb] wanted to write a play about the people caught in the echo chamber of theKudos to Loeb for taking this on -- not necessarily for the content, but for taking what he knows into a new medium to explore something important. And for doing more than sensationalizing and cheapening single events (and extrapolating those single events to describe the "problem" / "solution"). If you're in SF and get a chance to see it, let me know how it is. I'll try to get down there before the run ends June 9. Labels: events, media intersection, video game violence Share: | | | TinyUrl | Twitter SOURCES: Gamespot.com, joystiq.com, kotaku.com, Xbox.com, IGN, GameInformer, Official XBox Magazine, CNN, gamesindustry.biz, and others. 0 Comments: |
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