'This Spartan Life' Meets NPR

Via Joystiq, an edition of the in-game talk show This Spartan Life combined with the NPR program Studio 360 The weekly arts and culture program went behind the scenes of the Halo 2 based show to give non-gamers a sense of what gaming culture is like. From the Joystiq article: "On this weekend's episode of Studio 360, host Kurt Andersen suited up and interviewed Damian in the game for National Public Radio, and This Spartan Life has in turn published video of the segment on their site. What's pretty impressive to learn is that all of the hours of Halo 2 played online cumulatively add up to more then 10,000 years worth of Spartan living, all without any apparent evolution."

Comments

Not NPR

[iriefrank]

Studio 360 is produced by the radio station WNYC in New York, and distributed by Public Radio International. NPR has nothing to do with it, you insensitive clod.

no evolution?!

[ILuvRamen]

what about inventions such as Tower of Power style advanced games. They're doing things more complicated and advanced than the game's original scope was intended for. New game types like swat are the same way. Also, sniping perfect head shots at respawn points is the equivalent of cheetahs getting better at gazelle hunting (except cheetahs aren't cheap ass modders, I doubt anyone does the aforementioned technique naturally)