“Make Love Not Warcraft” Wins an Emmy
From Slashdot, on the South Park episode which talked candidly about playing a lot of Warcraft:
WoW Insider has the word that the South Park Episode “Make Love, Not Warcraft” has won the Creative Emmy for Outstanding Animated Program. The episode, which heavily features machinima shot inside a Blizzard-run World of Warcraft server, has proven extremely popular with fans of both the game and the show. So much so that the DVD set including that episode includes a 14-day trial for WoW, and extensive commentary on the episode from the show’s creators. From the WoW Insider post:
“This isn’t the first Emmy that South Park has won, but perhaps this kind of attention will get WoW more positive (or at least humorous) attention in other television shows. Though, when it comes to TV ratings, 9 million people worldwide does not a target audience make. For example, American Idol was considered slipping when it only had 30 million US viewers for an episode. Would you like to see WoW references appear more often on TV? Or are you too busy playing to care?”
Neils Clark :: Sep.10.2007 :: Games ::
I thought this episode was so great, I showed it in a lecture of CMNS 253 - Introduction to Information Technology. The goal was to impart the increasing importance of studying the role of games in popular culture. The students loved it.
hehe, awesome.