User generated content

User generated content is content that is produced by the audience themselves who consume video games. An example of a User generated game is Little Big Planet. User generated content has a massive affect on what happens in the game market. This allows for new ideas to be produced and then these ideas can be used in other games.

In the article it explains that they don't think that rockstar would be able to release a game every year like call of duty and assassin's creed. This is because they believe in bringing out a new game every year it won't make as much money as the predecessor thinking that one day it will hit the wall but rockstar don't want that they want it to keep going and keep growing.

Pegi Ratings

Pegi (Pan European Game Information) is a rating system that advises customers to what age rating is suitable for content in a video game. These are the game ratings that are available.

3: Suitable for ages 3 and older. May contain mild violence in an appropriate context for younger children, but no bad language is allowed.

7: Suitable for ages 7 and older. May contain mild, cartoon violence, sports, or elements that can be frightening to younger children.

12: Suitable for ages 12 and older. May contain violence in a fantasy setting, coarse language, mild sexual references or innuendo, or gambling.

16: Suitable for ages 16 and older. May contain explicit violence, strong language, sexual references or content, gambling, or drug use (encouragement).

18: Suitable for ages 18 and older. May contain graphic violence, including "violence towards defenseless people" and "multiple, motiveless killing", strong language, strong sexual content, gambling, drug use (glamorisation), or discrimination.

It wasd indroduced so that sellers can identify what audience can buy the game. If someone has come to buy a game they must prove there age to the seller so they can buy it. Previously it was rated through BBFC but they have stopped doing it now and all games are rated by Pegi.

When a game comes out the publishers have to submit the game for classification to Pegi. The retailers can only sell it to the corresponsding age on the box or higher. The developers knew the age of the game before they created it so they knew what content was allowed in the game.

World of Warcraft

World of Warcraft

The world of warcraft is part of the online role playing game genre. It was released in November 2004. The game is free for a short amount of time (up to level 20) and then you need to pay for a subscription for a certain amount of months. Whatever you do in the trial will get carried over through to the full version if you decide to purchase it. The difference between World of Warcraft and a console based game is that World of Warcraft will go on and on and on whereas a console based game has and ending where everything can be complete. The game is made by Blizzard Entertainment. The game is available all over the world and the average amount of people online on World of Warcraft is 10 million. At the moment they are trying to push a new add on for the game Mists of Pandaria.

This is the World of Warcraft front cover.

When games are created a fan website maybe made. One has been made for World of Warcraft. On these websites they might discuss tactics and other problems with many other people who are part of the World of Warcraft community. These can be commented on on the World of Warcraft homepage and under community you can comment, question and provide answers for other members. When players are online on this community they use their own character names. There are many things on the message board allowing people to comment on so their are no specific amounts of comments on their. On this message board it does have links to social networking sites allowing them to spread to word about World of Warcraft. This is known as viral marketing.

GTA V trailer

GTA V Trailer

The new GTA V trailer has been released and there are several features on the presentation that have been used and released. The main narrative of the story that has been released is that there are three protagonists in the story. The first protagonist is an old white gentlemen in his 50's who has a nice apartment and a nice car but his family life isn't as relaxed. His son is also shown as a troublemaker as he is hanging from a yought on a dual carrigeway as it goes along the road. The second protagonist is another elderly white gentlemen who is slightly older than the previous who is totally diffrent to the other gentlemen. In the trailer it shows him in a dump and him with dead bodies, blowing up a house and stamping someones head in. This shows that he is a mad character. The final protgonist is a young black gentlemen who also has a nice apartment and cars but has a wife that doesn't want him to go back to crime. In the trailer it shows him in a vehicle shooting at someone who we can't see. All these protagonists know eachother through the first protagonist as show in the trailer introducing the other two to eachother.

The sound in the trailer is mainly diagetic sound with the actions happening in the trailer and the speach being used as the sound. Also a song is played throughout. This song is stevie wonders's song Skeletons. When the actions and speach are on in the trailer the song fades so the speach and sounds can be heard.

Throughout the trailer there are several establishing shots. These establishing shots are used to show the audience the city and to show off the graphological capabilities of the game itself. Fog is used in shots to hide some other parts of the game to keep them secret for when the game comes out or if they haven't completly finished that part of the game. There are also alot of medium shots in the game to show more of the graphics for example the pavement in the first protagonists apartment outside.

GTA V: the story so far

GTA V is the new grand theft auto game in the series. This an upcoming open world game that has been developed by rockstar north and published by rockstar games. It has been written by Dan Houser. It is due to come out around about spring 2013. This release date has changed several times but has been settled on as this. Rockstar have delayed it to make the game perfect when it is released. It is the follow up of the 2008 game GTA IV.

GTA have made fifteen games in total but in the main plot there have been four before this one. The first game GTA was made in 1997 and was created at the time by DMA design who have now become rockstar north and published by bmg interactive. The game in a nutshell was that you could go aroung a city and do what ever you wanted. It was available on playstation, windows and game boy colour. This was new ip at the time so it was a risk. It turned out to be a success and a second game was made GTA 2. GTA 2 was once again done by DMA design. This was made in 1999. This game was once again good and a third was made. It was platformed on palystation, windows and gameboy colour.  GTA III was made in 2001 and was also following the open world style of the other games. This franchise now was becoming well known and became a AAA blockbuster title. It was once again developed by DMA design but was the last to be devloped by them. This GTA however was published by Rockstar games. This is the company made by the Houser's. It was available on the playstation 2, platstation 3, windows, xbox, and an ios app for mobiles. GTA IV was released seven years after GTA III and is one of the most highest selling games of all time and has recieved many accolades.

There have been may spin off GTA titles like San Andreas, Liberty City, The Lost and Damned and Chinatown Wars. San Andreas was the biggest game as it broke many records and made GTA what it is today. This GTA is the GTA that most people like. San Andreas was made in 2004 for Playstation. Liberty City was made in 2005 for the playstation aswell. This is another add on to the story but wasn't as successful as San Andreas but it still made alot of money. These two games where made to fill in the otrher parts of the GTA story that the main ones didn't cover. The Lost and Damned is Dlc taht can be purchased as an add on to the GTA IV story. This is also the case for the Ballad of Gay Tony Dlc. Chinatown Wars is a totally GTA from the others. Where as all of the GTA's have been only playable for xbox and playstation users Chinatown Wars is only playable if you have a nintendo ds or 3ds. It is a GTA game but set in china.

GTA V is a third person person shooter that is going to be set in Los Santos. According to a statement made by rockstsr they believe this GTA will be the biggest GTA yet in terms of the open world. This news means that the game is highly anticipated and with new trailers and screenshots coming out every so often this keeps the audience interested in GTA for a long time even before it's come out.


Rockstar have released several screenshots and a trailer to this day but are going to release a new trailer on 14th november. This will give the audience new news about who are the main characters what weapons do you have and what is the main plot of the story. Recent screenshots though have shown people on speedboats, planes, cars,etc. The trailer gave us little clips of what is in the game but the cuts in frames meant that clips weren't on the screen long as it went on to another thing.

Top 20 games chart

This chart is showing the games that have sold the most copies over the last week worldwide. This shows the trends of what people like the most at this moment in time. This allows game developers to design new games that will fit in with the trend so their games will get bought. You can also see that activision, ea and ubisoft are the main game developers in the top 20. This shows that the more household known developers are having their games bought because they are trusted by the gaming market to make a new game that is good. This is because they are a trusted franchise. An example of a trusted franchise in the top 20 is assassin's creed 3. There is one first party game in the top 20. Forza horizon is made by microsoft and this means that it is only available on the xbox 360. This is known as a first party game. other examples of first party games are pokemon black and white and proffesor layton and the miracle mask. Their are a few kids games in the top 20. These include moshi monsters and skylanders. These are both made by activision. This shows that activison are trying to push games in to a younger market to get money. One casual game is in the top 20. This is Just dance 4. This is in the top 20 as this is a franchise that has grown and people enjoy playing this so people buy it. A couple of football games are in the chart. Football amnager 2013 and fifa 13 are there as they are well known franchises are bought year in year out. The new ip in the chart is dishonored. This game is brand new and nobody knows anything about it so making this was a massive risk. This may be bought because the the developers bethesda m,ade syrim and this was a good game. The audience may look on this and buy dishonored based on this. Within the next week call of duty black ops 2 will enter and probably at the top. This is because this is a AAA blockbuster game and everyone buys it. This is because it is a trusted franchise and this has been earnt because some of the previous games they have made have been good and the audience continue to buy them year in year out.

mountain dew- halo 4

This is an example of symbiosis. Halo 4 and mountain dew have come together to do this.

Conglomerate map (GTA IV)

Conglomerate map (vivendi)