Time Magazine`s Halo 3 article

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1657825-2,00.html

Now, I find this article amusing, and offensive at the same time. Here is a guy who will take some bashing by slanting a negitive spin on Halo 3, and he knew it. He had to have know it. So I give him points for that. Halo 3 pre-order sales have breached over 4 million, he`s bound to get some criticism some where along the lines by all Halo fans. HoweverHe comes off kind of nuetral, but I find what he says about the gaming community in general offensive.

"There`s an opportunity beyond video games, too, for Halo to break out of the ghetto and become a mainstream, mass-market, multimedia entertainment property."

I don`t find it acceptable that he uses the term ghetto (more than once) to describe any form of buisness/entertainment outlet. Ghetto is and should be considered an offensive term. For one, video games climbed out of the "ghetto" with the release of the PS2 and Xbox game consoles. Video gaming became main stream, and probally way before that when we all sat in our rooms hooked up on our Nintendo or Sega systems. In my honest opinion, using the word Ghetto to describe any broad category of people (gamers) is not only morally wrong, but the complete wrong usage of the word.

"They`re happy in their invisible geek ghetto."

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