There seems to be a trend in digital media these days. We live in an age of rapid electronic communication, where you are more likely to converse with someone via text then you are face to face. We tweet routine tasks like #pickingupdogcrapagain, as we instagram photos of our nightly meals. We constantly check and update our Facebooks, and use Google whenever we need to know the answer to something. For better or worse, the age of rapid digital information transfer is here to stay. Entire generations will be raised not knowing what life was like before the cell phone, and we will lose a social dimension of communication amidst the digital bombardment.
It's important in life to maintain a broad palette when it comes to culture and the arts. Hideo Kojima agrees, as he continues to use video games like Death Stranding to introduce people to music and other elements they might not otherwise discover.
Mojang has partnered with Merlin Entertainments to build the world's first Minecraft theme park in the UK.
A three-episode live-action adaptation of the first two Yakuza video games will debut Tuesday, March 17 exclusively IGN. Each episode is about an hour long and will stream on IGN.com and IGN’s YouTube channel.
