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Tiny Diggers has just been released on the iPad and soon the Mac computer. Here’s the details on this fun, educational game from TouchTilt Games.
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Little Sister Decisions Hit Mainstream Media

Submitted by on August 23, 2007 – 10:25 pmOne Comment

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In our last podcast, we talked about the morality play that confronts us with the Little Sisters in Bioshock. As people are aware, you have two choices in Bioshock when it comes to these vessels. You can try to free them, or you can kill them. Either choice plays into what happens in the game. Being that you are given the choice to kill something that looks like a little girl (they are no longer girls at this point, but Adam collectors), it was bound to hit the mainstream media.

Sure enough, The Patriot Ledger hit on this topic yesterday in their paper. They talk about how 2K Games is pushing the boundaries of “ultraviolent gaming” due to allowing the choice to kill these girls. Now to their credit, after the rather bold first paragraph, they actually do mention the fact that you don’t have to kill them, but that you can save them from their fate.

But in normal media sensationalism, towards the end of the article, they try to tie Bioshock’s morality play, to a killing that was allegedly brought about by someone playing Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. It never fails. The media always seems to try to find a way to relate games to real world violence. Like somehow, all violent crime did not exist before the Atari 2600 or the arcades of yesteryear.

found via Joystiq

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  • http://eklipse.net Mike

    When I first saw the initial Teaser’s earlier this year (late last year?), I was like “WoAH! I can’t believe they will have you killing little girls! This is gonna get crushed by the media.”

    Once you get the whole story, you understand it better. Especially when you see the first Little Sister STEAL THE ADAM from a DEAD body (no spoiler here, go watch any of the trailers/teasers and see it first hand). At that point one can easily transition from thinking that they are cute little girls to thinking that they are small bodies bred to further an evil ideology.

    Irrational… I mean 2k games have always tackled very psychological ideas. If you go all the way back to the original System Shock and really think about it besides just playing it there is a complex psychological idea that they are toying with. The quality of their stories could easily be transformed into mega-hit blockbusters (so long as its not produced by Uwe Bolle). I’ve always thought that would have been fun to make System Shock (1, then 2) into movies. They did such a good job fleshing out the stories there isn’t a need for a director/script writer to expand or fill in anything.