NY Senate Okays Violent Game Legislation
The New York State Senate has approved legislation designed to limit the sale and availability of violent video games to children, passing the bill along to the State Assembly.
READ MORE >Louisiana Pays ESA $91K for Illegal Game Law
The United States District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana has ordered the state to reimburse the Entertainment Software Association...
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see all 19 commentsFTC: Game Ratings Keep On Keeping On
The Entertainment Software Rating Board's (ESRB) game ratings scale is now more effective than ever thanks to growing retailer participation and...
READ MORE >"You guys need more inane contributors, like "This one guy in Subway contributed to this story.""
see all 7 commentsLord of the Rings Online Q&A
Ask Turbine #6 on WarCry offers the latest Lord of the Rings Online Q&A. The article format interview touches on allowing US and EU players to play...
READ MORE >"You get your first cloak at around lvl 5 off a quest. I'm no fan of DDO LotRO"
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Wing Commander returns on Xbox Live Arcade [xbox360] Despite the decades of retro titles to its name, publisher Electronic Arts shied away from...
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see all 35 commentsESRB Moves to Full-Time Content Raters
The Entertainment Software Ratings Board, which serves the video game industry in rating game content, has been a target in various controversies...
READ MORE >"What baffles me more than that was that Majora's Mask got an E rating. That game is creepy as ..."
see all 8 commentsIN Senate to Consider Game Restriction Bill
Indiana's Senate Economic Development and Technology Committee has approved a bill aiming to legally restrict sales of video games featuring...
READ MORE >"Mamas, don't let your babies grow up to be Democrats or Republicans."
see all 30 commentsMicrosoft to Offer Casual Game Ad Revenue Sharing
This week Microsoft announced its plan to share in-game ad revenues with developers of casual games distributed through the MSN Games service. The...
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Super Paper Mario exists, is coming soon [wii] One of the sleeper hits at E3 2006 was Super Paper Mario, a bizarrely but intriguingly styled 2D...
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Microsoft bumps up Live Arcade limit? [xbox360] When questioned recently about whether the Xbox Live Arcade release of Castlevania: Symphony of...
READ MORE >"The compressed files for Quake are about 20mb for the full game. I think that it's more like 70 ..."
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Xbox 360 becomes more backwards compatible [xbox360] Xbox 360 owners can come a little closer to being able to toss their original Xboxes, as...
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see all 55 commentsLieberman, Clinton Team Up with ESRB
Increasingly, politicians have been at odds with the games industry over how games and game sales should be regulated, and the Entertainment...
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EA dominates PS2 and PSP with Burnout [ps2] [psp] This August, Electronic Arts announced that Criterion's fifth main installment of its...
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see all 43 comments2006 Video Game Report Card Released
The National Institude on Media and the Family has released its 11th Annual MediaWise Video Game Report Card, grading the video games industry on...
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Karraker: MS' HD video does "disservice" to Core owners [ps3] [xbox360] Following yesterday's announcements by Microsoft that Xbox 360 owners will...
READ MORE >"Yes, immature assholes. I believe there's more of it than in the past. Regardless, whether ..."
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"You mean the game arms pretty much everything in the game for you so you can enjoy shooting ..."
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