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Kouichirou Taninami's talk at the Game Developer's Conference, "The Localization of Counter-Strike in Japan", featured on Gamasutra (no registration required, I think) is quite an interesting read. For example:

"The characters are gritty, burly, and not particularly appealing – so Namco got an artist to anime them up a little, replacing sweaty gringos with guys in primary-colored spandex and PVC shoulderpads, and hairy guys in fatigues and ski masks with antigravity-busted women in three square inches of purple nylon."

posted by: Rune at 08:25 | link | comments |

Time for some numbers on Powerup - below is the Norwegian statistics of PC- and console-gaming for 2005, shown for age/gender. The table from Norwegian Statistics show many percent has played a PC or a console game ('TV-spill') on a given (presumably random) day.

	TV-spill	PC-spill	TV- eller PC-spill
Alle 9-79 år	4	8	11
Menn:
9-15 år	33	38	57
16-24 år	12	17	27
25-44 år	2	8	9
45-66 år	0	3	3
67-79 år	0	6	6
Kvinner:
9-15 år	11	13	23
16-24 år	2	9	9
25-44 år	2	4	5
45-66 år	0	4	5
67-79 år	0	1	1

posted by: Rune at 19:51 | link | comments (1) |

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