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No Barriers to Fun!
We met our friend Giddeon at the AbleGamers Accessibility Arcade in Atlantic City, New Jersey. When he first sat down with the AbleGamers crew, Giddeon didn't want to play any games. He told us that with his disability gaming was difficult. Giddeon has a rare disease that caused the growth of his arms .. Read More -
A Window to the World
Shepherd University invited the AbleGamers Foundation to come on campus and do one of our Accessibility Arcades for the students and local disabled community. The event was a roaring success with hundreds of children and adults coming out to see the technology and in some cases experience gaming the first time. Read More
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Published on 16 October 2007
Now between you and me, the reason
Hollywood is in a slump is because it cannot make a good movie to
save its life. Film executives disagree; they blame Halo
3. The latest from the Farrelly brothers and the most recent blockbuster-not-to-be, "The Heartbreak Kid," only managed to make a paltry $14 million over its opening weekend. Overall, the movie industry's tickets sales were down a staggering
27% over the same weekend last year making it the worst weekend for the movie
industry in over seven years.Advertising Age says:
Many film executives are convinced audiences stayed home to play Microsoft's carpal-tunnel classic, "Halo 3," which went on sale on Sept. 26. The game sold an astonishing $170 million worth of copies on its first day, before going on to sell well over $300 million.There is more to come from what I see. Games are great, and they are even greater when you put them up to the trash that is coming out of the studios at the moment. I mean for the love of all that is holy, "Saw IV", how many of these movies do we need?
It doesn't appear the Chief stayed in shrink-wrap for long, either: More than 2.7 million gamers have played "Halo 3" on Xbox Live -- Microsoft's multiplayer gaming offering -- in the first week, representing more than one-third of the 7 million Xbox Live members worldwide. Within the first day of its launch, "Halo 3" players racked up more than 3.6 million hours of game play, and that number increased to 40 million hours by the end of the first week. For those keeping score, that's more than 4,500 years of continuous game play.
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As a side note, I dont own an x-box and I have never even played Halo but I believe I WILL be going to see the 3-D Nightmare Before Christmas. Woot! So yeah, when they start putting out the good stuff people can, will, and do go to see it. Dont blame other people because your movies suck donkey balls and no one wants to pay to watch it. Get better writers! Maybe even better actors! Now there's an idea....
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