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Posted: Sunday, May 11, 2008 at 08:21 AM EDT
Last week GamePolitics reported on a controversial copyright protection scheme which Electronic Arts was planning to institute on the upcoming PC versi...
Posted: Sunday, May 11, 2008 at 07:46 AM EDT
With the ESA facing defections from both its membership and the upcoming E3 Expo, Gamecock CEO Mike Wilson (left) has tossed his hat into the ring as a...
Posted: Saturday, May 10, 2008 at 08:10 AM EDT
Electronic Arts issued a press release late yesterday announcing that it had secured a line of credit of up to a billion dollars to fund its hostile tak...
Posted: Friday, May 09, 2008 at 10:55 AM EDT
An exclusive GamePolitics interview with Rep. Lee Terry (R) demonstrates that the Nebraska Congressman, co-sponsor of a new video game ratings enforce...
Posted: Friday, May 09, 2008 at 10:47 AM EDT
Next Generation is reporting GTA IV glitches on the PlayStation 3 version.
Joystiq notes that, despite Take Two chairman Strauss Zelnick’s assert...
Posted: Friday, May 09, 2008 at 10:20 AM EDT
As GamePolitics reported last month, Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson (left) appealed a decision by the US 8th Circuit Court which held that a l...
Posted: Friday, May 09, 2008 at 09:47 AM EDT
Taking the Parents Television Council up on an interview offer, Phil Villarreal of the Arizona Daily Star spoke with Dan Isett (left), PTC Directo...
Posted: Friday, May 09, 2008 at 09:29 AM EDT
Politicians just can’t seem to get it right, so attorney and avid gamer Mark Methenitis, who pens the excellent Law of the Game blog, has written ...
Posted: Friday, May 09, 2008 at 08:19 AM EDT
Michael Gallagher (left), CEO of the Entertainment Software Association, which represents a number of US video game publishers, has commented on a bill...
Posted: Friday, May 09, 2008 at 08:08 AM EDT
We’ve got additional reactions to yesterday’s report by the Federal Trade Commission which gave high marks to the video game biz for its enf...
Posted: Friday, May 09, 2008 at 05:31 AM EDT
Our hosting company had a server issue late yesterday which caused GamePolitics to be down for about three hours. We also lost a few reader comments ...
Posted: Thursday, May 08, 2008 at 03:10 PM EDT
Last week, GamePolitics first began to suspect that Activision and Vivendi might have left the Entertainment Software Association (ESA) after noticing t...
Posted: Thursday, May 08, 2008 at 02:23 PM EDT
The steep decline in sales of M-rated games to underage buyers reported this morning by the Federal Trade Commission is a clear victory for the video ga...
Posted: Thursday, May 08, 2008 at 01:21 PM EDT
Hotly-anticipated PC titles Spore and Mass Effect will be among the first wave of PC games from EA to employ a controversial form of copy protection.
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Posted: Thursday, May 08, 2008 at 10:07 AM EDT
The results of the Federal Trade Commission’s latest research into the marketing of violent entertainment to children is a major win for the video...
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