Dec 9, 2008 7:02 PM

Game|Life on 'View From the Bay,' Talking Game Ratings

The FCC has yet to ban Game|Life from the nation’s airwaves, so here is another television segment that we did about holiday gaming. The View From the Bay is a San Francisco area afternoon talk show with all kinds of guests and topics, and one of them today was videogames: How to read videogame ratings, […]

The FCC has yet to ban Game|Life from the nation's airwaves, so here is another television segment that we did about holiday gaming.

The View From the Bay is a San Francisco area afternoon talk show with all kinds of guests and topics, and one of them today was videogames: How to read videogame ratings, and what Wired.com's picks for the top holiday games might be. As you might imagine, LittleBigPlanet, Fallout 3, Animal Crossing, and Rock Band 2 were the items of discussion.

I'm checking "appear on a talk show with coffee in front of me" off the life-goals list now, thanks.
Holiday videogame review from Wired [ABC]

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Chris Kohler started writing for WIRED in 2002, and founded WIRED.com's Game|Life channel in 2005. He is the author of the books Power-Up and Retro Gaming Hacks, and co-hosts the Stitcher Award-winning podcast Good Job, Brain! ... Read More

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