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Violent games tax proposed in Pennsylvania
GamePolitics did a very interesting assignment on Friday. Armed with a handheld digital camera, it headed to the city Hall in Philadelphia. There the Children and Youth Committee of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives was mulling on various...
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Wii to launch the most violent game ever
Wii may soon lose its clean and slick image and invite trouble from watch groups. Wii has been known for it's family content and the games are usually mellowed and lack extreme sex or violence. However, with Wii introducing the ultra violent video...
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Top videogame effects on gamers
What effect truly and really gaming bestows upon hard core players? Nope, we don't want Harvard scholars to dig into it and spend thousand days and million dollars to embark with some inventive results. Just joking kids, we have a list here where 12...
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Violent games: Is it worth a debate?
Well, it is no secret that there is a group of people out there, who are mainly game haters, who keep on singing the violent game song in an effort to kill gaming. They won't accept that because if they did, they would be kicked on the sideways for...
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Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure banned Down Under for 'Teaching vandalism'
The action game Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure has been banned by the Classification Review Board in Australia. The primary reason cited for banning the game was that it 'teaches vandalism' hence not appropriate for the decent Aussie public. As a...
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Senate panel gives go-ahead videogame study
After many anti-gaming bills falling through in many states in US, there is some not-so-good news. Anti-game crusaders - Democrats Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut, Hillary Clinton of New York and Dick Durbin of Illinois successfully persuaded a Senate...
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Media sensationalism on violent videogames
A few days back, 1up.com blogger Fandel Mulkey carried out an article that we too covered here on how media is sensationalizing videogames and comparing gaming addiction with crack addiction. Today, he has come up with another fantastic analysis of TV...
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Lazy parenting is video gaming's worst enemy
There is no Jack Thomson in Europe to take care of violent games. So who should take the responsibility to check what kids are playing and how they behave afterwards. Though there is not even a shred of evidence to prove that violent games affect kids'...
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Mayor says videogames reason for recent murders
Mayor Scott Lang of New Bedford, Ma., has decided that the root cause for the recent killings there. Hometown of the dead murder suspect Jacob Robida witnessed real life violence last week. Now in an attempt to find an excuse for the total break down..
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