Really BIG screen gaming (1 Viewer)

[EdR]

Found this article linked from slashdot. It's about a theater in San Diego that's converting to a gaming 'arena' .

The theater has been transformed into a multi-player gaming center in which patrons can challenge one another on some 80 computer games. Unlike a video arcade, players will compete against each other on such popular game systems as Microsoft's XBox, Sony's PlayStation 2 and Nintendo's GameCube.

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/b...1b5gaming.html

 

[Michael St. Clair]

I thought you had to get a special license from the publishers to do this...though I'm honestly not sure where I heard that.

 

[EdR]

I thought you had to get a special license from the publishers to do this...though I'm honestly not sure where I heard that.

You might be thinking of the notice on the game boxes. I recently recall reading an Xbox game that said something like 'unauthorized pay-for-play is prohibited'...

Hmmm...they possibly could get around this by forming a club that offered 'free' big screen gaming...join the club for a fee, play games for free...

 

[Thom B]

It's definitely a pay-for-play proposition. They're charging the price of a movie for 2 hrs gaming. I assume they just arranged to be 'authorized' through some sort of licencing deal with the various console and game manufacturers.

Prolly generate a reasonable amount of business for the latter folks.