Ads

Best offers

Ads
All about Miscellaneous
 Latest Miscellaneous articles
Exclusive Interview: Nvidia's Ian Buck Talks GPGPU

Exclusive Interview: Nvidia's Ian Buck Talks GPGPU
With Snow Leopard and Windows 7 both offering GPGPU capabilities, we wanted to talk to Nvidia's Ian Buck. Not only is he one of the fathers of Brook, the programming language ultimately adopted by AMD/ATI, but the head of Nvidia's CUDA group as well. Read More

  • Beamforming: The Best WiFi You’ve Never Seen
    Forget 802.11n Draft 2.0. The future of video-capable WiFi depends on a signal-boosting technique called beamforming. We put the pioneers in this frontier through some real-world testing to find out which technology is going to change the wireless world. Read More
All Miscellaneous articles

Newsletters


  • Ask your question about IT issues
  • Post
Popular Searches

Partners

The Games selection

kids : Bob Throw bubbles so as to make the ones that appear in the game disappear. For this, use the Right / Left arrow keys to duck or move about, and the...
crazy : PC Breakdown What is worst than a Fatal Error occuring during a game you did not save? Unleash your rage at your PC in this game. Blow it to pieces, it feels so...
Ads

Sponsored links

E3 Expo bans booth-babes

Next news
7:00 PM - January 24, 2006 by Humphrey Cheung



The yearly Electronic Entertainment Expo show is known for cutting edge game announcements and outlandish costumes, but in recent years companies have been using scantily clad models to lure attendees to their booths. Now the Entertainment Software Association, the organization that runs the event, says that these "booth-babes" will be banned. Companies will be given on warning and then face an immediate $5,000 fine for further violations.

In a handbook given to exhibitors, ESA says that "sexually explicit and/or sexually provocative" models will be prohibited from the show floor. For the industry that has brought us Lara Croft of Tomb Raider fame to the blond-haired "Ghost" girl from Blizzard's Starcraft Ghost, it may be difficult to judge what is acceptable or not.

We don't know what prompted the change in rules, but last year PlanetWide Games pushed the envelope by having several scantily-clad models pose at their booth. Kevin Donovan, President of PlanetWide Games, told TG Daily that models made sense for the demographic. "Our online role-playing game R.Y.L. was meant to be edgy and the models appealed to the demographic," says Donovan.

Donovan will have a booth at the upcoming show and while he is still selling R.Y.L., his company is focused on pushing Comic Book Creator - a program that lets users turn game screenshots into a comic book. Donovan wasn't unaware of any changes banning booth-babes and told us that he won't have models anyways. "This year we have other great products and want to stay focused," says Donovan.

Source : Tom's Hardware US

Talkback
Add your comment
Comments are closed on this page.

Sponsored links