The Week in Review: Bullies, Minecraft, and Jack Thompson

[Logan Westbrook]

The Week in Review: Bullies, Minecraft, and Jack Thompson

In this week's edition, Peter Molyneux raves about Minecraft and Jack Thompson wheels out the phrase "murder simulator" once again.

Skyrim Won't Be Vanilla Fantasy

Whatever else you might say about it, Morrowind was a pretty unique fantasy game, stuffed full of giant bugs and bizarre beasts of burden, without a horse or a dragon in sight. Oblivion, by comparison, was a pretty typical sword and sorcery adventure, and while it was a great game, it didn't evoke that same sense of wonder that its predecessor had. For the upcoming Skyrim, however, Bethesda says that the weirdness will be back in full force. Bring on the tentacle bears! (Link [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/108446-Skyrim-Will-Be-Weird-Like-Morrowind])


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[New Troll]

Don't know how I missed that bully getting stomped! Funny stuff.

 

[Hero in a half shell]

Wait, are the developers of Skyrim actually going to include tentacle bears now just because everyone misinterpreted the dead mammoth picture? Or has it just become a running joke?

 

[RollForInitiative]

You realize that the kids involved in that incident were minors and, therefore, you have no right to actually post their real names in a news article, right?

Where's your professionalism? I expected better of The Escapist.

 

[CD-R]

You realize that the kids involved in that incident were minors and, therefore, you have no right to actually post their real names in a news article, right?

Where's your professionalism? I expected better of The Escapist.

His name has already been known for awhile now plus he's been interviewed by news organizations.

 

[Darksteel Mike]

"I think Minecraft's the best thing I've played in the last ten years," Molyneux said. "[And] what's so brilliant about it [is that Persson] did everything on his own."

No love for the rest of Mojang.