Very interesting. Thanks to Kotaku we know which persons in the gaming industry support which candidate in the coming US presidential election. Have a look:
Giving to Republicans, according to Develop:
• Will Wright: (Spore, The Sims) $3,000 to McCain; previously donated $2,350 to Giuliani
• Bobby Kotick (Activision CEO) $2,300 to McCain; previously donated $2,100 to Mitt Romney
• Curt Schilling (38 Studios) $2,300 to McCain.
Democratic contributors, according to Develop:
• Strauss Zelnick (Chairman, Take-Two) $2,000 to Obama; had previously donated to $2,500 to Edwards, $1,000 each to Biden & Richardson
• Ben Feder (CEO, Take-Two) contributed $1,000 to Biden in 2007
• Sam Houser (Rockstar) $4,600 to Obama
• Patricia Vance (president, ESRB) $2,000 to Obama
• John Riccitiello (CEO, EA) $4,600 to Obama
• John Smedley (Sony Online Entertainment) $2,300 to Obama
• Richard Garriott aka "Lord British" (Ultima series, NC Soft) $2,300 to Hillary Clinton
• Alex Rigopulos (CEO, Harmonix) $4,600 to Obama, the maximum allowable in two cycles, plus a $28,500 contribution to his victory PAC.
• Kathy Vrabeck (president, EA Casual) $2,300 to Obama
• Gabe Newell (pres., Valve) $2,300 to Christopher Dodd
I'm not American, but I am, as the rest of the world, very interested in the election. Personal Gaming is about videogames. But Personal Gaming is my personal page and I can publish on it whatever I like, even offtopic, haha. Okay, Americans, George W. Bush was an EPIC FAIL. You don't need to be a genius to see this. Just look at the Irak War. McCain is not Bush, but he is part of the same thinking. America, as lead culture and Europe's Ally, needs a different man on the steering wheel. Someone like Barack Hussein Obama. He has good ideas and brings a wind of change. Everyone (in-) and outside the US has high expectations of this man.
I am not surprised that a man like Sam Houser, father of GTA, supports Obama. Ever listened to GTA IV's radio station WKKT (We Know The Truth)? It's the perfect parody of republicans. GTA IV itself is a parody of the american culture. Houser knows that McCain is Bush#2 and Obama on the other hand is promising.
Very interesting that Will Wright, creator of Spore, supports the republicans. Not McCain, but Giuliani, former major of NY. Spore - DRM - Republicans, haha! That's my brainstorm about it.
As citizen of the world I give the one's who are allowed to vote the recommendation to vote for Obama. And here are the two speeches that made me a Obama supporter instead of only a Obama sympathizer.
The first is his great speech in my home country Deutschland:
The second one is in Virginia about inner politics. Sounds lame, right? Watch this and feel the positive energy:
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