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Telltale's 'Law & Order: Legacies' coming to iPhone this month, Mac/PC next year
It's already no problem to watch Law & Order 24 hours a day -- you basically just have to turn your TV on -- and now you'll be able to play Law & Order simultaneously. Doink-doink! Adventure game specialists Telltale Games will release the first case in its new "Law & Order: Legacies" episodic series this month on iPad and iPhone, with PC and Mac versions coming early next year (and more episodes on the way for all of them). The games will feature likenesses of investigators and attorneys from throughout the 800,000 seasons of Law & Order and its spinoffs, including Lennie Briscoe, Rey Curtis, Olivia Benson, and eyebrows guy. Gameplay involves both investigation of cases and prosecution. "As in every episode of the Law & Order series, choice and morality are key factors and every decision made throughout Law & Order: Legacies will affect the outcome and can lead to multiple endings for each case." In other words, you can totally lose. Doink-doink!%Gallery-141724%
Massachusetts court opens up to social media and live video, Ice-T expected to cameo
This story ripped from today's headlines: the Quincy District Court, just south of Boston, Massachusetts, will now stream live video online. Dubbed OpenCourt, the experiment will also offer WiFi and encourage liveblogging and social media reporting -- all in an attempt to help the judiciary understand and accommodate new digital reporting tools. Funded with a $250,000 grant from the Knight News Challenge, it proposes a more transparent philosophy for the legal system, which has often banned cameras and restricted access. But the court won't become an open free-for-all. There will be no video for restraining order cases and those involving minors, among others, and judges can disable the video feed at any time. Said executive producer John Davidow,"The idea is to bring the courts and what goes on in the courts closer to the people so they understand how the law and the justice system work in this country." With such high-minded goals, expect viewing that's closer to C-SPAN than Law & Order.
Telltale developing episodic Law & Order: LA games
Though the latest geographically distinct installment in Dick Wolf's long running procedural drama, Law & Order: LA, is still in its first season, NBC Universal has partnered with adapter extraordinaire Telltalle Games to add some playability to the franchise. A press release has revealed that Telltale's working on an episodic adventure game series due out late this year for PC, Mac and unspecified consoles, in addition to smartphones and tablets. According to the presser, the games "will take the crime solving focus to interrogation and criminal investigations, with a heavy dose of courtroom drama on each case." Sounds ... like Law & Order. We just hope that it also implements the eerie head-scanning futuretech that's being used in that other LA-based crime-solving sim. You know. We just got to get that Molina face.
Law & Order & some hilariously awful gaming stereotypes
In case you were wondering what you missed out on during that PAX Craigslist orgy, Law & Order: SVU has got you covered.
The Bastard Machine gets a dig in at both Second Life and Fox News
Tim Goodman, television critic of the San Francisco Chronicle, is one of the few critics of any stripe that I enjoy reading. It's not so much that I agree or disagree with whatever he's saying; it's more that I love his style. On a recent post for sfgate.com, he makes a slight poke at Second Life when talking about CNN's announcement that they'd be opening an island there. Calling residents 'sexless losers who can't cope with reality' first, then retracting it impishly immediately thereafter is enough to win points from me.And then he makes a joke about Fox news being more influential than CNN which is so true it holds up in SL as well. I'd like Mr. Goodman to do a whole piece on SL, except there's no connection with television there ... oh wait, he must've said something about that CSI: NY episode. Or Law and Order? The Office? No? Anyone? Bueller?[Via sfgate.com]
Law and Order borrows from Second Life
In a recent episode entitled "Avatar" Law and Order: Special Victims Unit created a scenario in an MMO so close to Second Life it might as well have been. In the episode a serial baddie stalks his victims using the a game called Alternate Youiverse, and creates an avatar based on his previous victims. While the majority of the episode seemed to be largely surrounding the tired themes of the dangers of the internet, not much was said about how the killer actually found his victims in real life, or why he chose one girl while impersonating one he had just killed. It appears that they largely relied on the smoke and mirrors that is the latest popularity in attacking online gaming to create an episode people would find interesting, rather than writing a tight plotline that just happened to use online gaming as a setting. Related Story
Apple adds several new TV shows to iTunes
Attention, Law and Order fans: Special Victims Unit [iTunes link] and Criminal Intent [iTunes link] have just received season passes. New to the iTMS today are several Jetix shows [iTunes link], including Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Power Rangers: Mystic Force and Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go (there's a sentence I couldn't have made up if I tried). There's also a free episode of the Andy Milonakis Show [iTunes link] as well as Little Einsteins for the kiddies [iTunes link].
Law and Order in iTunes
Ugh, this show is inescapable. I'm convinced that, if you surf around long enough, you can find one incarnation this show pretty much any time of the day or night. Now, you can find Ice-T and the gang in iTunes, too. Season 7 [Tunes link] and season 1 [iTunes link] are up and ready.I like that Apple isn't restricting updates to Tuesdays anymore. Every time I launch the iTMS now it's like going off on a little Easter Egg hunt to find new content.
