Unarmed Avatars

If Microsoft removes guns from the avatar marketplace, how will the avatars defend themselves against the Kinectimals?

Vital Statistics

Unarmed Avatars

Date: January 2, 2012

Written and Performed By: Graham Stark, Kathleen De Vere, and Paul Saunders

Story Graphics: Paul Saunders

CheckPoint Graphics: Graham Stark

Big Boom: Cameron Lauder

Music: Bradley Rains

Produced By: Graham Stark and Paul Saunders

Today

Microsoft has removed gun props from their avatars. Find out why on today's CheckPoint.

Stories

• The official Zelda timeline has been released.
• Game of Thrones RPG will be supervised by George RR Martin.
• Nintendo releasing a snakeskin skinned Metal Gear 3DS.
• 3DS is finally successful in Japan.
• SWTOR logs over 60 million hours of game time in 8 days.
• Microsoft has removed all guns or gun-like objects from the XBox Live avatar system. Graham expects that they'll go slightly further.

Coming Up

Persona IV has jumped the shark, but not Kathleen's wallet.

Trivia

• The lower third gag during the SWTOR segment included a callback to an older Loading Ready Run sketch Last Minute
• This is the first episode that Cam is credited as the Boom Operator.