The debate on whether video games can be art has been raging for some time and now the United States federal government has thrown its weight behind the medium, making video games eligible for funding that comes from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Its guidelines for the following year, originally designed fo... |
18 May 2011
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The Australian Customs and Border Protection Service has announced that the upcoming fighting game Mortal Kombat was added to an official blacklist and that all those who try to import copies of the title will see them confiscated and might also receive a fine which can go up to 110,000 Australian dollars.
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16 March 2011
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A government ministry in the Asian country of Vietnam has asked those companies that offer Internet connections and services to block all access to online video games between the hours of 10 PM and 8 AM, with the clear intention of eliminating gaming during the night hours and forcing players to get a bit of sleep.
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23 February 2011
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Another politician has chosen to show his thorough misunderstanding of the gaming medium and the current times we live in. He is Liam Fox, United Kingdom's Defense Secretary, who is revolted at Medal of Honor's multiplayer mode where some of the players have to play as the Taliban. Fox urged UK retailers to... |
23 August 2010
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California State Senator Leland Yee has recently submitted to the Supreme Court of the United States a new set of arguments for the controversial law that would ban the sale of age restricted video games to minors. The Supreme Court is set to provide a ruling in the case of Schwarzenegger versus Entertainment Merchan... |
14 July 2010
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The Chinese government has announced a new policy that is designed to crack down on those online advertisements which use sexually charged imagery to sell products like MMO titles, which are very popular in the Communist country. The Ministry of Culture will be in charge of banning those online game companies who do ... |
12 July 2010
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The Chinese government increased the legal restrictions it imposed on video games by prohibiting minors to use the micro-transaction systems that fuel the highly popular free-to-play massively multiplayer online role-playing titles in the country. This comes just as a new law has been issued regarding Internet cafe o... |
24 June 2010
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It seems that the Russian Parliament has had enough of the stereotypical way in which citizens of the great nation are portrayed in videogames and plans to deal with the issues by creating no less than six patriotic videogames. The Ministry of Communication has actually requested about 500 million rubles, which is mo... |
10 June 2010
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Barack Obama, the President of the United States, launched another broadside at the culture of videogaming, complaining that the age of the iPad and of the Xbox and the PlayStation is placing additional burdens on citizens, some of them linked directly to the information they have access to and which they need to sor... |
12 May 2010
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The United States Supreme Court is currently considering a case related to a California law, which would ban the sale of violent videogames to customers who are under 18 while providing for significant punishment for those who break its provisions.Lower courts have already said that the law is unconstitutional becaus... |
6 May 2010
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More and more videogames rely heavily on the Internet to deliver an experience to the player. Ubisoft is building its next-gen Digital Rights Management system around always connected titles and soon the company could actually deliver content as gamers play. Microsoft is expanding the line up of Games on Demand title... |
8 April 2010
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It seems that the United States Armed Forces, the best prepared military force on Earth, is aiming to step up the use of videogames in the training process of most troops, the idea being that a soldier who has gone through videogames as close as possible to real life will be better prepared for combat than one who ha... |
22 March 2010
05:42 GMT |
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The long line of politicians interested in raising political capital by attacking videogames can add another high profile figure to their ranks in the person of Hugo Chavez, the president of Venezuela, who has attacked the console industry and Nintendo and Sony specifically for creating titles that focus on violence ... |
19 January 2010
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It seems that the Chinese Ministry of Culture has sent out a letter to a variety of videogames developers and operators, inviting them to take greater care related to the content which is being offered, especially if their games are played online.The letter is quoted as making references to the content not being &ldq... |
24 November 2009
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The Chinese Ministry of Commerce has taken action, which can probably make most of the gold farming operations taking place in the country illegal. The official line is that there is a high potential for fraud in any exchange involving virtual money and real world objects or services so, from now on, only virtual cur... |
30 June 2009
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China is getting ready to launch a new crackdown on those videogames that are deemed to be “undesirable.” The official reasoning is that, as the number of players grows, especially those interested in MMOs, the possibility of addiction is also growing and the state must make sure that gamers are protected... |
22 June 2009
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Barack Obama, the President of the United States, seems to be referring to videogames more and more in his speeches, especially when addressing big themes like health care reform and the challenges facing the educational system. The most recent reference comes in a speech made to the American Medical Association.Here... |
17 June 2009
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Even on the campaign trail before his election last year, Barack Obama talked about videogames. He mentioned GTA IV and said that better education for the American children hinged on less time spent playing videogames and watching television. He again touched on that subject at a town hall meeting in Wisconsin.Presid... |
16 June 2009
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Apparently, in Florida, stores are now required to get the prints of all those who are interested in picking up a used videogame. Such a measure sends the idea that gamers are criminals and buying and selling DVDs is basically the same as getting a gun. The measure seems to be coming from the legislature of the state... |
3 June 2009
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When the government of the United States of America becomes interested in taking over some aspects of the banks that have generated the recession, a lot of people scream “socialism.”What will they say when they see that a Californian representative aims to restrict the amount of time that someone can spen... |
15 April 2009
05:46 GMT |
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Following the shooting in Germany, which claimed the lives of several children and that of the gunman himself, a lot of voices have been clamoring for imposing a ban on the sales of videogames, which are seen as the catalyst in the transformation of a misunderstood teenager into a killer.Initial reports related ... |
26 March 2009
14:31 GMT |
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