Two Congressmembers have introduced a bill that would require game publishers to add a "clear and conspicuous" warning label to most new video games. HR 4204, the Violence in Video Games Labeling Act, is only the most recent in a series of legislative attempts to restrict or otherwise hinder speech in the form of interactive media. We've put together an action alert that lets you to tell your Congressmember that you stand against the unnecessary and burdensome regulation of speech in video games, and that she should too.
Video game review: Unit 13
New York Daily News
Truth is, Unit 13 wants to be the perfect portable third-person shooter, deep enough for the hardcore gamer but bite-sized enough for the iPad convert. And the new PS Vita game from Zipper Interactive almost succeeds. It does a lot of things right on ...
New York Daily News
EMI Sues Over Def Jam Rapstar Video Game
Hollywood Reporter
We can hardly imagine the difficulties of clearing a hip-hop song for use in a video game. Rap songs are known to include multiple contributors and underlying samples, which means a ton of paperwork. The producers of Def Jam Rapstar, a video game that ...
Video-game review: 'Tiger Woods PGA Tour 13'
Bellingham Herald
By BILLY O'KEEFE - McClatchy-Tribune From Kinect support to the chance to reenact Tiger Woods' upbringing, "Tiger Woods PGA Tour 13" boasts its share of new features for the back of the box. But the most paramount addition by far to "TW13" is a new ...
"Are Video Games a Waste of Time?" Asks a March Persuadable Research Survey
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Overland Park, KS (PRWEB) March 29, 2012 We've heard all the negative arguments againstvideo games. They're addictive time killers that contribute to obesity. Even with all the downbeat press, video game sales are in the billions of dollars every year ...
Video Game Legends to Judge Make Something Unreal Live
Gamasutra
CARY, NC and LUTON, UK (March 29, 2012) – Epic Games, Inc. and Train2Game announce the distinguished lineup of video game luminaries who have committed to participate in Make Something Unreal Live, the groundbreaking game development competition coming ...
Video game mystery: When did 'Super Mario Bros.' come out?
WTSP 10 News
(USA TODAY) -- Nintendo's classic Super Mario Bros. is right up there with Pac-Man and Space Invaders as one of the most recognizable video games ever made. Check Wikipedia and it gives Super Mario Bros., which launched on the Nintendo Entertainment ...
WTSP 10 News
He's a Video Game Video Star, And He Wants Out
Kotaku
But we may be seeing how a new breed of video game star here—the bedroom video producer, the big fan, the young, aspiring gamer who loves to express their love for video games in video form—shakes things up and draws hundreds of thousands of gamers ...
Government Turns to Video Games for Training
MyFox Phoenix
(EndPlay Staff Reports) - Epic Games Inc.'s software has powered popular video games such as the "Gears of War" franchise. Now it will benefit actual crime fighters and Army physicians among others. The game developer announced that it has partnered ...
MyFox Phoenix
Gamer's monster challenge
Daily Pioneer
If you don't have a girlfriend, the next fun thing is becoming a competitive gamer. There is money in it, proven by the wallet of the first Indian Gaming Carnival,which boasts it is the world's third largest. Shana Maria Verghis reports.
Cambodian teen chained to post for playing video games
New York Daily News
By Nina Mandell / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Sok Khorn, a 13-year old Cambodian boy, is chained to a power pole after his father discovered he was skipping school to play video games. A Cambodian dad is in trouble with the law after he chained his son to a ...
New York Daily News
Video Games Enlist for Government Training
CIO Today
Can video games help to train professionals? The US government seems to think so. On Tuesday, Epic Games announced it has entered into a long-term agreement for licensing its Unreal Engine 3 technology to the governments of the US and its allies.
CIO Today
Obama tops gamer presidential survey, Paul top Republican candidate
News10.net
Barack Obama is the overwhelming favorite presidential candidate according to a poll conducted by Nexon America regarding its MapleStory online PC game players' political interests. A majority of the game's players identified themselves as politically ...
News10.net
Classic paintings, cubed: Artist Adam Lister's video game-inspired art history
Washington Post (blog)
Lister reduces famous paintings to geometric abstractions inspired by cubism, minimalism, pixels and 8-bit video games. “Having grown up playing Atari and Nintendo video games, this broken-down, angular method of processing and displaying information ...
Top 10 greatest video game theme songs
WTSP 10 News
After pulling the audio clips from all of the video games, they wanted to make a Top 10 list of the best video game songs and find out if you agreed or disagreed. Let us know in the comment section below. They used these rules when selecting their ...
WTSP 10 News
I play games. I am not a 'gamer'.
Computerandvideogames.com
Yet I don't consider myself a 'gamer'. Why? Because as soon as I dip below the surface of the net, the collective indignant bawl of a legion of self-defined 'gamers' makes me nauseous. There's a rolling ball of 'gamer' culture that thunders through ...
Samson finds his inner gamer
Edmonton Journal
Samson is a gamer? He doesn't seem the shoot-'em-up, time-waster type. This is a guy who tends to hide away in public libraries to write his songs, lest he cave in to the distraction of the Internet. "I don't actually play video games," he chuckles.
Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City video game receiving mixed reviews
Examiner.com
“Over the course of more than 15 years, Resident Evil has established a rich history as one of the video game world's most storied franchises. Sadly, Resident Evil: Raccoon City fails to add to that rich history, serving up ordinary squad-based game ...
The Gamer's Notebook
Ventura County Reporter
I protected my chest with both of my arms and pressed my back against a brick wall in dreadful anticipation of the rage-inducing finale of arguably one of the greatestvideo game trilogies of all time, Mass Effect 3, as it became the veritable D-Day of...
Ventura County Reporter
EA Sports to Launch Euro 2012 Video Game As Expansion Pack for FIFA 12 Users
EPL Talk
By The Gaffer on March 29, 2012 (about 3 hours ago) EA Sports announced today that the officialvideo game for Euro 2012 will be available as a downloadable expansion pack for owners of the FIFA 12 game. US residents will be able to get the game for ...
Study: Kids quit sports for video games
WJXT Jacksonville
It reveals that 42 percent of teenagers have been pushed too hard and would rather play video games than play on the field, saying sports just aren't as fun. "We want to be our kids' coach, we want to be an advocate for our children, we want to push ...
'Mass Effect 3' fiasco won't end
Tampabay.com
There have been a lot of embarrassing moments in video game history. The Great Crash of 1983. The Super Mario Bros. movie. The Atari Jaguar. PlayStation Home. But few will come close to the quagmire in which BioWare finds itself after the colossal ...
Tampabay.com
Shannon Tweed-Simmons gets own video game
The Telegram
Gene Simmons' slew of female groupies were no doubt taken aback when he professed his undying love to Shannon Tweed-Simmons at their televised wedding ceremony, and now Tweed-Simmons is fighting them off superhero-style in a video game inspired by her ...
The Telegram
Do the Video Game BAFTAs matter?
Videogamer.com
Fresh from winning a Video Game BAFTA for best Online Browser Game, we speak to Bossa head Henrique Olifiers about the effect of the awards on the industry, winning casual game Monstermind, and the state of the browser-game industry.
Rehabilitation, Ritalin, video games and other topics
Tulsa Beacon
Parenting has been replaced with Ritalin and video games. (Parents are overmedicated and the next generation has never experienced hard work.) America, the “land of opportunity,” is now the “land of handouts.” (America is starting to look like Greece ...
Molester, caught on video game, sentenced
UPI.com
IPSWICH, England, March 28 (UPI) -- A British court sentenced a man to three and a half years in prison for molesting a 10-year-old girl who caught the act on her Nintendo DS, officials said. John Fisher, 46, admitted touching the girl inappropriately ...
THOUSANDS OF FANS DANCE TO CELEBRATE THE LAUNCH OF THE ZUMBA® FITNESS RUSH ...
Gamasutra
Majesco Entertainment, publisher of the wildly successful Zumba® Fitness video games that have sold more than 6 million copies, captured an epic flash mob on film at the IHRSA Fitness Convention. More than 2000 Zumba® enthusiasts gathered in downtown ...
Top 5 Video Games as Art
Phoenix New Times (blog)
The Smithsonian in Washington DC decided to weigh in on the debate rather heavily by hosting an exhibit on video game art, which focused on the evolution of gaming as a medium by featuring playable copies of Pac-Man, Super Mario Brothers, The Secret of ...
Phoenix New Times (blog)
Video: "Video Game: GOTY Edition: Special Edition"
Complex.com
By Michael Epstein | Mar 29, 2012 | 12:41 pm | Permalink Have you ever considered buying a collectible edition of a new game? Are you pre-ordering one right now!? Before you pull the trigger, you should know that animator Nevarky thinks you should ...
Sharp, Keith Candidates For NHL '13 Video Game Cover « CBS ...
By Sam Zuba
For the first time ever, the fine folks at EA Sports are letting fans pick the next cover athlete for their annual NHL video game.
CBS Chicago
New York Daily News
Truth is, Unit 13 wants to be the perfect portable third-person shooter, deep enough for the hardcore gamer but bite-sized enough for the iPad convert. And the new PS Vita game from Zipper Interactive almost succeeds. It does a lot of things right on ...
New York Daily News
EMI Sues Over Def Jam Rapstar Video Game
Hollywood Reporter
We can hardly imagine the difficulties of clearing a hip-hop song for use in a video game. Rap songs are known to include multiple contributors and underlying samples, which means a ton of paperwork. The producers of Def Jam Rapstar, a video game that ...
Video-game review: 'Tiger Woods PGA Tour 13'
Bellingham Herald
By BILLY O'KEEFE - McClatchy-Tribune From Kinect support to the chance to reenact Tiger Woods' upbringing, "Tiger Woods PGA Tour 13" boasts its share of new features for the back of the box. But the most paramount addition by far to "TW13" is a new ...
"Are Video Games a Waste of Time?" Asks a March Persuadable Research Survey
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Overland Park, KS (PRWEB) March 29, 2012 We've heard all the negative arguments againstvideo games. They're addictive time killers that contribute to obesity. Even with all the downbeat press, video game sales are in the billions of dollars every year ...
Video Game Legends to Judge Make Something Unreal Live
Gamasutra
CARY, NC and LUTON, UK (March 29, 2012) – Epic Games, Inc. and Train2Game announce the distinguished lineup of video game luminaries who have committed to participate in Make Something Unreal Live, the groundbreaking game development competition coming ...
Video game mystery: When did 'Super Mario Bros.' come out?
WTSP 10 News
(USA TODAY) -- Nintendo's classic Super Mario Bros. is right up there with Pac-Man and Space Invaders as one of the most recognizable video games ever made. Check Wikipedia and it gives Super Mario Bros., which launched on the Nintendo Entertainment ...
WTSP 10 News
He's a Video Game Video Star, And He Wants Out
Kotaku
But we may be seeing how a new breed of video game star here—the bedroom video producer, the big fan, the young, aspiring gamer who loves to express their love for video games in video form—shakes things up and draws hundreds of thousands of gamers ...
Government Turns to Video Games for Training
MyFox Phoenix
(EndPlay Staff Reports) - Epic Games Inc.'s software has powered popular video games such as the "Gears of War" franchise. Now it will benefit actual crime fighters and Army physicians among others. The game developer announced that it has partnered ...
MyFox Phoenix
Gamer's monster challenge
Daily Pioneer
If you don't have a girlfriend, the next fun thing is becoming a competitive gamer. There is money in it, proven by the wallet of the first Indian Gaming Carnival,which boasts it is the world's third largest. Shana Maria Verghis reports.
Cambodian teen chained to post for playing video games
New York Daily News
By Nina Mandell / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Sok Khorn, a 13-year old Cambodian boy, is chained to a power pole after his father discovered he was skipping school to play video games. A Cambodian dad is in trouble with the law after he chained his son to a ...
New York Daily News
Video Games Enlist for Government Training
CIO Today
Can video games help to train professionals? The US government seems to think so. On Tuesday, Epic Games announced it has entered into a long-term agreement for licensing its Unreal Engine 3 technology to the governments of the US and its allies.
CIO Today
Obama tops gamer presidential survey, Paul top Republican candidate
News10.net
Barack Obama is the overwhelming favorite presidential candidate according to a poll conducted by Nexon America regarding its MapleStory online PC game players' political interests. A majority of the game's players identified themselves as politically ...
News10.net
Classic paintings, cubed: Artist Adam Lister's video game-inspired art history
Washington Post (blog)
Lister reduces famous paintings to geometric abstractions inspired by cubism, minimalism, pixels and 8-bit video games. “Having grown up playing Atari and Nintendo video games, this broken-down, angular method of processing and displaying information ...
Top 10 greatest video game theme songs
WTSP 10 News
After pulling the audio clips from all of the video games, they wanted to make a Top 10 list of the best video game songs and find out if you agreed or disagreed. Let us know in the comment section below. They used these rules when selecting their ...
WTSP 10 News
I play games. I am not a 'gamer'.
Computerandvideogames.com
Yet I don't consider myself a 'gamer'. Why? Because as soon as I dip below the surface of the net, the collective indignant bawl of a legion of self-defined 'gamers' makes me nauseous. There's a rolling ball of 'gamer' culture that thunders through ...
Samson finds his inner gamer
Edmonton Journal
Samson is a gamer? He doesn't seem the shoot-'em-up, time-waster type. This is a guy who tends to hide away in public libraries to write his songs, lest he cave in to the distraction of the Internet. "I don't actually play video games," he chuckles.
Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City video game receiving mixed reviews
Examiner.com
“Over the course of more than 15 years, Resident Evil has established a rich history as one of the video game world's most storied franchises. Sadly, Resident Evil: Raccoon City fails to add to that rich history, serving up ordinary squad-based game ...
The Gamer's Notebook
Ventura County Reporter
I protected my chest with both of my arms and pressed my back against a brick wall in dreadful anticipation of the rage-inducing finale of arguably one of the greatestvideo game trilogies of all time, Mass Effect 3, as it became the veritable D-Day of...
Ventura County Reporter
EA Sports to Launch Euro 2012 Video Game As Expansion Pack for FIFA 12 Users
EPL Talk
By The Gaffer on March 29, 2012 (about 3 hours ago) EA Sports announced today that the officialvideo game for Euro 2012 will be available as a downloadable expansion pack for owners of the FIFA 12 game. US residents will be able to get the game for ...
Study: Kids quit sports for video games
WJXT Jacksonville
It reveals that 42 percent of teenagers have been pushed too hard and would rather play video games than play on the field, saying sports just aren't as fun. "We want to be our kids' coach, we want to be an advocate for our children, we want to push ...
'Mass Effect 3' fiasco won't end
Tampabay.com
There have been a lot of embarrassing moments in video game history. The Great Crash of 1983. The Super Mario Bros. movie. The Atari Jaguar. PlayStation Home. But few will come close to the quagmire in which BioWare finds itself after the colossal ...
Tampabay.com
Shannon Tweed-Simmons gets own video game
The Telegram
Gene Simmons' slew of female groupies were no doubt taken aback when he professed his undying love to Shannon Tweed-Simmons at their televised wedding ceremony, and now Tweed-Simmons is fighting them off superhero-style in a video game inspired by her ...
The Telegram
Do the Video Game BAFTAs matter?
Videogamer.com
Fresh from winning a Video Game BAFTA for best Online Browser Game, we speak to Bossa head Henrique Olifiers about the effect of the awards on the industry, winning casual game Monstermind, and the state of the browser-game industry.
Rehabilitation, Ritalin, video games and other topics
Tulsa Beacon
Parenting has been replaced with Ritalin and video games. (Parents are overmedicated and the next generation has never experienced hard work.) America, the “land of opportunity,” is now the “land of handouts.” (America is starting to look like Greece ...
Molester, caught on video game, sentenced
UPI.com
IPSWICH, England, March 28 (UPI) -- A British court sentenced a man to three and a half years in prison for molesting a 10-year-old girl who caught the act on her Nintendo DS, officials said. John Fisher, 46, admitted touching the girl inappropriately ...
THOUSANDS OF FANS DANCE TO CELEBRATE THE LAUNCH OF THE ZUMBA® FITNESS RUSH ...
Gamasutra
Majesco Entertainment, publisher of the wildly successful Zumba® Fitness video games that have sold more than 6 million copies, captured an epic flash mob on film at the IHRSA Fitness Convention. More than 2000 Zumba® enthusiasts gathered in downtown ...
Top 5 Video Games as Art
Phoenix New Times (blog)
The Smithsonian in Washington DC decided to weigh in on the debate rather heavily by hosting an exhibit on video game art, which focused on the evolution of gaming as a medium by featuring playable copies of Pac-Man, Super Mario Brothers, The Secret of ...
Phoenix New Times (blog)
Video: "Video Game: GOTY Edition: Special Edition"
Complex.com
By Michael Epstein | Mar 29, 2012 | 12:41 pm | Permalink Have you ever considered buying a collectible edition of a new game? Are you pre-ordering one right now!? Before you pull the trigger, you should know that animator Nevarky thinks you should ...
Sharp, Keith Candidates For NHL '13 Video Game Cover « CBS ...
By Sam Zuba
For the first time ever, the fine folks at EA Sports are letting fans pick the next cover athlete for their annual NHL video game.
CBS Chicago
Sharp, Keith candidates for NHL 13 video game cover | Red Light ...
By Jay Zawaski
Sharp, Keith candidates for NHL 13 video game cover. For the first time ever, the fine folks at EA Sports are letting fans pick the next cover athlete for their annual NHL video game. Blackhawks Patrick Kane and Jonathan Toews were on the ...
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Nintendo Gamer – April 2012-P2P » Releaselog | RLSLOG.net
By ShaN
Ngamer Magazine No other mag gives you so much Nintendo: new games picked apart in unseemly detail; the latest titles reviewed by the best writers in the business; dedicated Virtual Console and WiFi sections… and a huge World of ...
Releaselog | RLSLOG.net
The Nine Best Current-Gen Video Game Soundtracks
By Dan Seitz
The Nine Best Current-Gen Video Game Soundtracks. [avatar] Profile. 03.29.12 at 11:32 am. FZKilla. The score to 'RAGE' by Rod Abernethy was really good as well. Sadly, the soundtrack hasn't been released for the masses, except for a few ...
Gamma Squad
Video Game Reviews | RotoRob
By Herija Green
This time last year I felt 2kSports had started to close the gap on Sony's highly regarded baseball title, The Show. Fast-forward to 2012, however, and after spending a couple of weeks with both games it's clear that MLB '12 The Show is once ...
RotoRob
How we enjoy video games.
How we enjoy video games.. LOOK AT TAGS. ... How we enjoy video games. Flag. Uploaded by: mcdolla · previous · next · random. Comment. How we enjoy video games.. LOOK AT TAGS. LOOK AT TAGS. Tags: You | are | Awesome ...
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The Best Video Game Locations Vol. 1 | Static Multimedia
By Matthew Farraye
Movie, Music, Video Games, Comics. ... The Best Video Game Locations Vol. 1. Previous Full size. At the end of the day, the creative teams of any given game essentially give voices to all that game's elements, whether it is the sound of the ...
Static Multimedia
Video Game Hero Confronts His Obsession in 'Skyrim Hoarders'
By Don Deane
Okay, confession time -- we're addicted to the hit video game 'Skyrim' and have been playing it for months and months. But no matter how much we enjoying.
TheFW
Frontline Gamer: Interview with Rob Lane of BaneLegions
By Frontline Gamer
Frontline Gamer: Firstly thanks for agreeing to let me badger you with my questions! Before we start on the 'real' questions can you tell us all a bit about yourself, your staff and your company, and how you got yourselves into the industry?
Frontline Gamer
Gamer Girls. - Imgur
sign in · register. Imgur is used to share photos with social networks and online communities, and has the funniest pictures from all over the Internet. the simple ...
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Joe's Garage (SMB): Most Likely to be Pwned by RDP - F-Secure ...
Last week, we advised readers to apply Microsoft update MS12-020 sooner than later. For those of you that have — good work. And if you haven't yet applied ...
www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00002329.html
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