Full FeedFlorida Attorney General flip-flops his attitude toward video games
Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum used to be similar to nearly every other politician, believing that video games would train young children to be mass murderers. He took particular issue with the Wii version of Manhunt 2 due to the fact that he thought the Wii’s motion controls would enable… Continue Reading »
Rant: Stop blaming, banning videogames for real-world violence
Grand Theft Auto IV was recently removed from store shelves in Thailand by the order of New Era Interactive, one of Asia’s largest game distributors. The reason is that Polwat Chino, a 19-year-old boy, killed a taxi driver while trying to recreate a scene from the game. Ah. Yet another… Continue Reading »
Ireland begins banning violent games
According to the European Commission survey, Ireland is now banning violent video games. The reason for banning violent games, according to the EU’s study of the implementation of Pan European Game Information ratings, is that many of the EU nations are not enforcing the age limits on the games identified… Continue Reading »
Counter Strike, Everquest face ban in Brazil
In a fresh development, a federal ban has been imposed on popular titles Counter Strike and EverQuest in Brazil. It was in October 2007 that a Brazilian federal court banned the sales of the two games but it didn’t come into effect immediately. Carlos Alberto Simoes, the federal judge, found… Continue Reading »
Singapore lifts ban on Mass Effect
That didn’t last long. Almost as quickly as Singapore banned the videogame Mass Effect, the Media Development Authorities did a complete turn around after the Board of Film Censors gave it a M18 rating and placed the game on the shelves. Did the homophobic city-state learn to understand and accept… Continue Reading »
Steamy love scene in Mass Effect gets game banned in Singapore
That didn’t last long. Almost as quickly as Singapore banned the videogame Mass Effect, the Media Development Authorities did a complete turn around after the Board of Film Censors gave it a M18 rating and placed the game on the shelves. Did the homophobic city-state learn to understand and accept… Continue Reading »
Microsoft serves gamer with 7,992-year ban for playing leaked Halo 3
Microsoft doesn’t like thieves. When Xbox Live user “Scar” came into possession of Halo 3 through less-than-legal means, MS served him with the gamer equivalent of 114 life sentences – He’s banned from Xbox Live until December 31, 9999. Gamespot had the details of this young man’s tale of woe:… Continue Reading »
Experience what it’s like to download at unlimited speeds from a massive collection of over 800 Terabytes of user uploads. You’ll max out your Internet connection downloading a file in… Continue Reading »
Important Importables
Jenni Lada brings us information about all of the groovy new gaming imports from around the world.
