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[Controversy rages over game release] Asia/Computer games [16/05/06]

Console game development company NikkoTendai have generated huge controversy throughout Asia with the release of their new computer and console game title 'Old Person'. In the game, the player controls a 79 year old man or woman through levels which have been described as 'utterly degrading'.

Pressure groups representing the older citizens of many Pacific Rim nations are furious at what they see as wholesale disrespect. Lawsuits have been filed in Seoul and Tokyo, and lawyers have expressed confidence in getting the game banned within six months.

Elements of the game that have caused anger include; a 'colostometer' level which the gamer has to monitor, a 'hipbreaker' section in which the old person dances to rap music and [what is thought to be causing most anger] levels of the game wherein the old person defecates and urinates without warning, sometimes in shops and cinemas. This element of the game calls for the gamer to master the 'profuse apology' grid, which is used to defuse in-game situations that range from 'mildly embarrassing' to 'soiling mad'. When the game characters 'profuse apology' is accepted, points are scored and the next level is reached.

Nikko Tendai have introduced other game elements that include:

• Sophisticated garment choice [including new BaggiSuit™ technology]
• In-Game ear hair growth
• Random moaning
• Queue causing
• Slo-Mo™ slow shopping ability
• Normal/Brittle bone settings
• 'Suicidal Old Bastard' road crossing mini game.

Opinion is sharply divided over the content of 'Old Person', but it seems the controversy is set to continue until such time as one of the many legal challenges proves successful, and the game is banned.

Ishimaru Takumi [NipponToday].

Nikko Tendai [Asia] have released a press statement regarding the game

“As a sensitive and caring company, Nikko Tendai stand by the concept and philosophy of this game. The company feel certain reactions to the game are understandable but unfortunate. However, the company also feels much of the protest has been misguided and excessive.

Aspects of the game that have generated controversy should be seen as a light-hearted attempt to bring a maligned and forgotten section of society back into our collective consciousness.

Having an old person urinate in a butcher queue can be interpreted as a symbol of empowerment.”


[Men make love to tubs of soil ] USA/Therapy [04/12/06]

Californian therapist Kendra McAllister has been the centre of controversy for some years now, and this trend is set to continue with the publication of her newest, and some would say most radical, work to date, 'Earth Penis - The genital spade'.

In the book, McAllister explains the theories behind her philosophy of male ego and attempts, through her rigorous and challenging reassessment of previous therapeutic techniques, to better identify the role of men within 21st century society. Using a framework of her own radical theories regarding gender roles, she introduces the reader to the concept of the 'mudmale'.

McAllister's 'mudmale' belief system is rich and complex, with components derived from disparate sources, but at the core is a physical 'wedding' of the penis to the earth which is achieved by the male actually 'sexing' soil contained within a specially crafted bucket. Adherents speak of an opportunity to re-connect with deeper notions of society, a profound sense of renewal and the eventual deconstruction of damaging atavistic behavioural patterns.

"I see the EarthPenis area as a new place for men to commune," McAllister says "A new horizon to explore."

"It takes the most vital and humanistic components of Libertarian radicalism and combines them with primal earth worship rites and beliefs. It is a sexual and philosophical revolution in soil. The penis/earth cycle is the birth/death cycle
distilled into a muscular action. Renewal made real."

McAllister maintains the connection made by physically
'coupling' with soil itself is a rite that offers "The most
profound marriage of mind, manhood and mud."

Her Californian Institute is gaining in numbers daily as troubled and often directionless 21st century men search for a greater understanding of their place in the complex society of a new millenium.

McAllister has lectured recently on the theories put forth in 'Earth Penis - The genital spade' at the California centre for Gender Concerns in Santa Ana. She will be undertaking a series of lectures titled 'Renewal made real' at the Hayward Human Resource Center, California. Taking place over a six month period, these lectures are scheduled for late fall 2005.

Edward Barrow [Californian Association of Therapy].

[Gambian anthem disaster]
Africa/Politics
[23/08/06]

In a bizarre diplomatic and consitutional mixup, Gambias previous national anthem has been replaced with the nursery rhyme 'Simple Simon'. Gambian politicians are furious that the new anthem is now legally binding.

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[Artist sells his own hand] USA/Arts [10/09/06]

A work of art which includes the severed hand of conceptual artist Gustav Schaeffer has sold at a New York auction for $856,000. Schaeffer had the hand surgically removed at a private clinic in Manhattan one year ago and has subsequently included it in his recent piece 'Mint Expulsion'.

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[Extreme Dancers perish]
Global/Arts
[12/11/06]

Extreme Dancers JayJay and Debbie Gardiner have plunged to their deaths from the 970ft tall Conners Tower in Atlantic City. The tragic accident occured as they attempted to waltz around the top of the tower. The rapid growth in extreme dancing is worrying many authorities in the USA. In the last year, at least nine couples have died as a result of this recent trend in thrill seeking.

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