This is, quite literally, the best news I have heard for a long time (actually, since yesterday, when I heard Yakuza 3 was being localised). But still.

I :heart: Simon Cowell

Haven't we already seen a few X-Factor games? All in the bargain bucket now.

This is the worst news, our industry sucumbing to the blight that has ravaged TV..............

Oh bless, it's like our little games industry has got all grown up...
(and found work as a whore for entertainment's sleaziest pimp daddy.)

So first we have nintendo trying to single handedly destroy gaming and now we have simon cowell. Thats simon cowell who has single handedly tried to destroy music and now wants to destroy gaming as well.

Simon cowell knows nothing about music and nothing about games. All he knows is how to sell a product to the stupid

hate this guy, makes me sick. they way he talks about "getting" a franchise makes it sound like life is a big game of Monopoly(tm) to him.

i don't believe for a moment he has any artistic interest in either games or music and that he see them both as a commodity to be profitted from. wanker. i hope he doesn't get invloved in the games industry, we have enough smack talk already thank you very much.

either that, or he DOES get invloved, ruins the GH/RB franchises and Activision, THEN f***s off.

christ, this has just make me fell phyically sick: picture Simon Cowel and Bobby Kotick in the same room.

Nice to see Cowell has his eyes on turning the video game industry into a sausage factory as well.

Wanker he may be, but he's a clever one at that. Midas Cowell could teach the games industry a thing or too, as he clearly has the creative and marketing flair that a consiberable amount of people in the games industry lack. I know you don't want to here this but changing the perception of spotty freaks wacking one out over how many elves they've killed and capturing a market that spends millions on Cowells products can only be a good thing for a sector that is getting raped every week by the Grocers.

it's a little something called crediblity. the type of people Cowell targets are no better, albeit different, to "spotty freaks wacking one out". the quality of the music produced under Cowell and X-Factor i find offensive. it's soul-less, idiotic, superficial and is a vehical for Cowell to make lots of money, not good music. i'm sick of half-witted non-entities appearing in every media spotlight. it's all about the money and the billshit and NOT about the music. i DO NOT want this to happen to gaming. there are enough crap games out there already.

gaming does not need an injection of commercial pop culture, it needs credibility, to be taken seriously as entertainment as and as an artistic form of expression (not necessarily at the same time), not the bollox this fuck-witt churns out for cretins in the name of consumerism. and if anything it would drive the sales at supermarkets as people will think "i know, i can get that new X-Factor game while i'm at Tesco getting the weekly shop and filling up on petrol! I can get all the games the kids want at Tesco? G-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-reat!!"

TAKE IT BACK!!!

What is happening to games has already happened to film and music. Are they worse for it? Yes there's a lot of mass market pop culture, but that hasn't stopped quality films and music being made. The market expanded. You could even argue that the money from blockbusters has led to many indie films being produced (a lot of big studios have indie arms).

So get over it and stop looking down on things that 'aren't cool' because they are popular with 'stupid' consumers. I'f people like it enough to buy it and get pleasure from it, then that justifies its existence. The fact is that you have a choice not to buy it.