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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...
Posted: Wednesday, May 07, 2008 at 05:32 PM EDT
Variety reports that a new legislative attempt to regulate video game sales has been launched in Congress.
Undoubtedly spurred on by the publicity surr...
Posted: Wednesday, May 07, 2008 at 11:49 AM EDT
Barack Obama may have dissed Grand Theft Auto IV a bit last week, but, on the streets of L.A. at least, the candidate and the controversial game have be...
Posted: Wednesday, May 07, 2008 at 11:00 AM EDT
The Daily Mail serves up a rather bizarre video game bash piece this morning. Journalist and English mum Rosie Millard (left) writes that the Nintendo ...
Posted: Wednesday, May 07, 2008 at 10:32 AM EDT
And you thought the GTA IV bashing was over?
Silly you…
The Catholic Exchange has jumped into the fray, terming the hit game a “dangerous c...
Posted: Wednesday, May 07, 2008 at 09:59 AM EDT
Game biz guru Keith Boesky offers his thoughts on last week’s stunning news that Activision and Vivendi have pulled out of the ESA.
While the dec...
Posted: Wednesday, May 07, 2008 at 09:26 AM EDT
GameCyte has scored a video interview with California State Sen. Leland Yee (D), and is soliciting questions for Yee from readers.
The Senator, a child...
Posted: Wednesday, May 07, 2008 at 09:04 AM EDT
It will be a long time until we again see the like of last week’s Grand Theft Auto IV media feeding frenzy. Perhaps it will take the release of ...
Posted: Wednesday, May 07, 2008 at 07:47 AM EDT
More than 300 people will attend the Games For Health Conference. The event opens tomorrow in Baltimore.
From the GFH press release:
The conference wi...
Posted: Tuesday, May 06, 2008 at 08:20 AM EDT
Rep. Mark Kirk (R-IL) has called upon the Federal Trade Commission to issue an alert regarding what he says is a potential risk to children who play the...
Posted: Tuesday, May 06, 2008 at 05:54 AM EDT
It took a few days, but GamePolitics has tracked down some background on the process which led Miami-Dade Transit (MDT) officials to pull ads for G...
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