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gamepolitics.com - 36 hours ago
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An story on BoingBoing cites a British Labour
Government source that such a move may be underway.
The article , noticed by GPer DarkSaber, reports that changes could be introduced to the Digital Economy Bill , which would enable the Secretary of ...
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Is Britain Readying a Supremely Armed Pirate Hunter?
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The New York City Council Committee on Technology in Government is holding public hearings today on the subject of Net Neutrality. A live stream of the hearings is available on LiveStream . The Council is live Tweeting coverage as well here. Also look for hashtags #netneutrality or #reso712A. ...
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gamepolitics.com - 37 hours ago
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Proving that there really is a study for
everything, an interesting new analysis applies International Humanitarian Law
(IHL) to a variety of war-themed videogames to see how they stack up. Playing by the Rules was undertaken by a pair of Swiss ...
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Fighting Fair: International Humanitarian Law As Applied ...
gamepolitics.com - 35 hours ago
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Founded in 1996, The National Institute on Media
and the Family (NIMF) will close its doors at
the end of the 2009 calendar year. In a statement, the group said “that more work remains to be done,” and that NIMF’s board is in ...
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NIMF to Close at Year End
gamepolitics.com - 37 hours ago
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Brisbane, Australia is the site of a planned
rally which hopes to show government authorities just how
serious gamers Down Under are about receiving an R18+ videogame rating category. The rally is planned for December 5th at 11:00 AM in King George ...
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Aussie R18+ Rally Planned
gamepolitics.com - 46 hours ago
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A law firm that specializes in consumer class
action lawsuits is probing the recent purging of Xbox
Live accounts in what may be a setup for future litigation. Inc Gamers noticed that AbingtonIP currently has a form on its website asking those ...
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Law Firm Sniffing Around Xbox Live Class Action Suit
gamepolitics.com - 2 days ago
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Erik Estavillo, the Resistance: Fall of Man gamer
who sued Sony Computer Entertainment America (SCEA) over being
banned from the PlayStation Network has targeted the remaining two major console makers in a new lawsuit. Microsoft Corporation and ...
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Banned Resistance Gamer Targets MS and NOA in Latest Suits
gamepolitics.com - 2 days ago
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A new Canadian study has tried to take
an objective look at video games as learning tools,
particularly since the medium is so popular among children and teens. Under the headline "The Video Game Debate: Bad for Behaviour, Good for ...
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Canadian Study Finds Games Useful Educational Tools
A pair of Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) Directors penned an article which delves into some of the issues surrounding the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) negotiations. The Impact of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement on the Knowledge Economy ( PDF ) was published in the ...
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Activision CEO Bobby Kotick has sold another chunk of his stock options, benefiting from the stock rise after the enormous sales of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 after one week. Kotick, who netted about $20 million from selling options last week , sold another 1.68 million shares at ...
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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
gamepolitics.com - 2 days ago
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File under bad ideas: one component of a
Danish anti-violence campaign features an online game that allows
players to virtually beat up a woman. “ Hit The Bitch ” is the work of The NGO for Children Exposed to Violence at Home and lets ...
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Anti-Violence Flash Game Lets Users Beat Woman
gamepolitics.com - 2 days ago
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A Buffalo Grove, Illinois boy called 911 after
his parents took away his Xbox console as punishment.
The boy hung up, reports The Chicago Tribune , but as a matter of routine, an officer was dispatched to the home just in case. The boy apparently ...
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Police: Yes Kid, Parents Can Take Your Xbox
Speaking at the recent Montreal International Game Summit, the CEO of a game development company complained that publishers are deliberately deceiving the Entertainment Software Ratings Board (ESRB) in a bid to receive lower age ratings. Rémi Racine of Artificial Mind & Movement ...
Gaming
The Hunt
gamepolitics.com - 3 days ago
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Authorities in Beauvais, France believe they have prevented
a possible school shooting by a 13-year old “computer
games enthusiast. A TimesOnline story details the unfolding events under the unfortunate headline “Computer Games Fan ...
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School Shooting Averted, Story Plays Up Link to Games
gamepolitics.com - 3 days ago
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A recent screening of Spencer Halpin’s Moral Kombat
documentary featured a post-show panel of game experts discussing
some of the topics presented in the film. The screening took place on November 11th in San Francisco. Members of the ...
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Lanning On Why Violent Games Are Still a Talking Point
A few details regarding Britain’s Digital Economy Bill were touched on this morning as part of the Queen’s Speech to Parliament, in which the monarch outlines the coming legislative agenda. Among the forthcoming actions will be a mandatory age rating on all videogames aimed at ...
Gaming
Despite split opinions on the actual effectiveness of it as a method of working out or maintaining health, the Nintendo Wii is now being sold at a U.S. sporting goods chain. The Sports Authority will sell both Wii and Wii Fit Plus systems and is launching a new campaign and dedicated in-store ...
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Wii Fit Plus
A survey commissioned by CNET UK asked gamers to weigh in on the failure rate of the current generation of game consoles. Perhaps unsurprisingly Microsoft’s Xbox 360 came in first (last?), with 60% of the respondents indicating that their 360 had failed at some point. Sony’s ...
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PS3
Former Quebec Premier Bernard Landry has dubbed tax credits implemented for multimedia development companies in the Canadian province as an enormous success, reports The Montreal Gazette . Landry (pictured left), speaking at the Montreal International Games Summit, claimed that the initiative ...
Gaming
gamepolitics.com - 3 days ago
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America’s Army has proven a boon to U.S.
Armed Forces recruiting, but opinions are still split as
to whether or not gamers have any advantages in the arena of war, according to an article in today’s Washington Examiner . In testimony to ...
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America’s Army Extremely Effective Recruitment Tool
