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Hypnosis: The Future of Video Game Reviews

by Ingrid on February 22nd, 2006

And again, because the world isn’t weird enough when Jesus endorses the Xbox 360, hypnosis is now being used as a viable way of reviewing a video game.

Mark Robbins, the Deputy Editor of The Official Xbox Magazine, agreed to be put under hypnosis in order to regress back to age ten. The point? To review the game, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.

The reason?

Well, according to Mark Ward, a Buena Vista Games representative : “The Chronicles of Narnia is a computer and video game aimed at 8- to 12-year-old boys and girls and finding anyone in that age bracket that has both the journalism experience and gaming skill to articulate a full and fair review has been impossible, until now.”

Um, yeah, that makes perfect sense.

*cough*weirdos*cough*

But hey, I’m curious. You?

Only, we’ll have to wait and read what happened in the next issue of The Official Xbox Magazine which doesn’t come out until March.

Bloody ‘ell.

[via Geek.com]

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