Newsie-ness

Video game news is still just news. If you don't care about video games, you won't care about video game news. The same can be said for topics such as the Iraq war and the peanut butter scare. If you ignore them and don't watch the five o'clock news, it'll just go away right? No no no... video games probably won't affect our safety as Americans, or our health as sandwich eaters. But it is the best selling form of entertainment in the country, and it's nice to have the freedom and the expendable income to spend on being entertained instead of having to worry if you can eat today. If you are a starving African child, you won't care if Left 4 Dead is 50% on Steam, or if Microsoft is readying a red 360, or if Earthbound isn't actually going to be released on the Wii Virtual Console. But we (people who read video game blogs) do care. Video games aren't just games to us. Gamers are a community of like-minded people who won't call us nerds for playing Pokemon when we were younger (or, still today). They won't question when you request a particular night off of work because your guild is having a big quest. And they'll link up with you halfway across the world to be digital rock stars on fake plastic instruments. We have the luxury of being able to have messed up priorities like this. Isn't America great?