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Rock the Vote Shows Results

Last month I reported that Rock the Vote, a bipartisan effort designed to promote voting among young people, partnered up with Microsoft for a campaign that aimed to inform, via the Xbox 360, potential voters about the positions of the candidates, the parties and to encourage young persons to register to vote in the ...

24 September 2008
08:51 GMT

Get Ready to Xbox the Vote

If you live in the United States, you can use your Microsoft manufactured Xbox 360 to register so that you can vote in the upcoming elections. Grassroots organization Rock the Vote, which has been trying to get young people to vote for more than a decade, has decided to enter a partnership with the software giant des...

22 August 2008
02:29 GMT

Gaming Is Entering a Golden Age, Says ESA President

E3 is no longer a public trade show and lately the Entertainment Software Association, which organizes the event, is taking some flak of its own. Activision and LucasArts, together with id Software, have pulled out of the organization and a lot of the other members are declaring themselves dissatisfied with the work ...

17 July 2008
16:11 GMT

Boris Johnson, Mayor of London, Links Videogames to Knife Crime

Every day or so some political figure is ready to make a fool of themselves and mock the intelligence of their audience by claiming something outrageous about videogames. Most of these figures and their statements are not brought to the public's attention but sometimes someone important enough does or says somet...

26 June 2008
20:31 GMT

If You Plan on Making Videogames, Consider Wisconsin

All the American states seem to be about to enter a competition to see which of them can lure large videogame companies to do business in their territory. Wisconsin is announcing that it is offering a 25% tax credit to all film, television and game studios that move to the state and go through a qualification process...

19 June 2008
03:15 GMT

Teenage Gamer Becomes Mayor, for Real

Now the entire gaming world has a person to keep an eye on, since he could be the one able to change the poor opinion people used to have on gamers or games. That person is 19 year-old John Tyler Hammons, the newly elected mayor of small Oklahoma town, Muskogee. If you're still wondering why we should care about...

30 May 2008
12:06 GMT


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