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South African filmmaker Neill Blomkamp’s “District 9” has turned out to be one of this summer’s blockbusters, instead of an underdog. The film, shot in a faux documentary style, managed to generate impressive grossing both at the US and international box-office, while also winning over even th... |
22 September 2009
10:45 GMT |
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Video games are a form of entertainment, just like TV shows or movies, meaning that they must follow certain guidelines in order to prevent exposing younger people to images that might have a lasting impact on them. That is why there are plenty of rating systems, with the two most important ones coming from the ESRB... |
26 August 2009
11:01 GMT |
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We've been hearing a lot of game-related news from Germany these days, mostly regarding its strict and severe policy in regard to violent video games. But in recent months, a veritable crusade against them has been started, all beginning with a high school student who shot many of his friends because, as the med... |
6 August 2009
15:01 GMT |
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A poster showing President Barack Obama with his face painted white, with heavy black eyeliner around the eyes, red lipstick and huge scars on his cheeks, just like The Joker in the Batman movies, has started popping up all over the place in Los Angeles and on the Internet. The reactions to it have been mixed, not fe... |
5 August 2009
11:52 GMT |
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The issue of just how acceptable retouching photographs that run in glossy and fashion magazines is has long been on the table, with both pro and con sides giving the dispute their best arguments. As of now, no form of middle-way has yet been found, but Liberal Democrats are finally making a move in the direction of ... |
4 August 2009
13:11 GMT |
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Video games are becoming part of our daily lives more and more and, as such, they turn into something that almost everyone can relate to. This is exactly why the president of the United States, Barack Obama, uses video games in many of his speeches. Granted, usually he doesn't put them in a positive light, as h... |
23 July 2009
02:40 GMT |
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Back in April this year, Silvio Berlusconi’s wife was scolding the politician in an open letter sent to a media agency for getting into a relationship, whose exact nature was not known at the time, with a much younger girl. A few weeks afterwards, Veronica Lario, the wife, was filing for divorce. Now, the perma... |
21 July 2009
05:03 GMT |
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Politics and video games barely have anything in common, except for a few simulators that put the players in charge of their own countries. But it seems that, at least in real life, politicians have seen gaming as a widespread phenomenon and, instead of trying to comprehend it and endorse both video game developers a... |
10 July 2009
15:11 GMT |
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Arnold Schwarzenegger, the Governor of California, has announced plans to push for Digital Textbook Initiative, where traditional paper textbooks in schools would be completely replaced by digital ones accessible via the Internet, Schwarzenegger himself has revealed in a column for Mercury News. The switch would init... |
10 June 2009
06:04 GMT |
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According to a new scientific study, it would appear that fathers who have more daughters than sons are very likely to turn Left-wing, from a political standpoint, whereas the opposite holds true for mothers. Apparently, women tend to become more conservative, and to share their young boys' opinions on politics.... |
26 May 2009
16:01 GMT |
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The Italian Prime Minister has a fortune estimated at about $9 billion and it will be at the center of what will presumably be the costliest divorce ever, as well as one of the most mediated. Veronica Lario, Berlusconi’s wife of many years, filed the divorce papers, admittedly tired of seeing the 72-year-old po... |
4 May 2009
06:26 GMT |
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Silvio Berlusconi’s wandering eye has again got his wife to publicly scold him via the Italian press. The Prime Minister attended a birthday party for the 18-year-old daughter of a business partner, and did not miss the opportunity of showering her with presents and being overtly courteous, which, in turn, has ... |
30 April 2009
05:17 GMT |
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In an editorial in the Washington Post, columnist George F. Will writes, as part of a rant against the Denim Generation, as he calls it, that “Seventy-five percent of American 'gamers' - people who play video games - are older than 18 and nevertheless are allowed to vote.” You can read the rest ... |
20 April 2009
08:11 GMT |
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Much has been said about action movie star Chuck Norris, including that “when the Boogeyman goes to sleep, he checks his closet for Chuck Norris,” as fans certainly know from the many “facts” circulating on the web. However, the star is now set to get into politics, running for the presidency ... |
17 April 2009
10:27 GMT |
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The gaming industry doesn't have the brightest record with many politicians, as a lot of them blamed it for violent children and for corrupting the minds of young people by promoting indecent behavior. But every once in a while, local and even national authorities do realize the importance of having successful g... |
9 April 2009
11:11 GMT |
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Recently, the soon-to-be commander of the International Space Station (ISS), RosCosmos cosmonaut Gennedy Padalka, said that the countries involved in the orbital program believed that each of their representatives in space should stick to their own nation's facilities and not use those belonging to other crew me... |
2 April 2009
06:23 GMT |
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Ashley Biden, the daughter of Vice President Joe Biden, is now caught in one of the biggest drug scandals of the past years, after a tape showing a woman closely resembling her doing a line of cocaine surfaced in the media. The lawyer who tried to broker the deal with the New York Post has since backed out of everyth... |
30 March 2009
11:50 GMT |
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When Hollywood star Arnold Schwarzenegger announced his intentions to run for California governor in 2003, the topic soon became nation and international news, despite the fact that, at the time, most Californians did not even know what his political views were. Arnold’s example seems to have inspired Val Kilme... |
7 February 2009
05:22 GMT |
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Video games don't exactly have the most decent reputation, and a lot of people tend to fear that they are becoming a more and more mainstream form of entertainment. This concern, coupled with protests against video games led by some groups, deems them dangerous to children, teaching them violent behavior among o... |
5 February 2009
13:01 GMT |
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For a long time, videogames have been looked at like the spawns of an outsider culture, a mark of those who were different. In a short span of time, the same videogames have become a mark of addiction, of those who need to be warned about the dangers of sitting down and playing titles like Gears of War 2, Condemned 2... |
14 January 2009
14:31 GMT |
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It’s not unusual for actors or musicians to get involved in activities outside their professional field, as neither it is to have them go vocal about what they believe to be wrong or right. Despite the impressive number of celebrities who flocked to show their support for one presidential candidate or another t... |
13 January 2009
09:22 GMT |
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Video games aren’t really met with a lot of appreciation, neither from the media nor from a big part of society. That is largely due to the fact that anti-game protesters, like Jack Thompson or other public institutions, say that these means of entertainment have a negative influence on children, teaching them ... |
15 December 2008
02:49 GMT |
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The French Senate, one of the two bodies which must approve a bill before it can become law, has just passed a measure aimed at banning “persistent pirates” from using the Internet. The measure was passed with an overwhelming majority. There were 297 votes for it and only 15 votes against it.The idea is t... |
7 November 2008
04:10 GMT |
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It seems that the government of California is aiming to resurrect an anti violent video games law. The primary aim of the bill is to make it illegal for everyone under 18 to buy or to rent games that “appeal to a deviant or morbid interest of children and are patently offensive to prevailing community standards... |
29 October 2008
04:51 GMT |
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Politics and games haven't really gotten along so well, with politicians blaming videogames for corrupting innocent kids and having a bad influence on society. But most gamers have gotten used to such claims which are, very often, made by people who haven't even played a game in their life, but venture out ... |
27 October 2008
11:01 GMT |
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Politics can always be fun, especially around elections. The lengths to which candidates go in order to tarnish the reputation of their opponents and to win the elections is often mind boggling. We've seen candidates accusing each other of misconduct, corruption, or other deeds, but this recent report has reall... |
9 October 2008
08:08 GMT |
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Don't you just love it when politicians elected by people who barely know how to use the Internet and people who believe Fox News when it talks about Mass Effect decide to create laws that target videogames? The Governor of the state of New York, David Paterson, has decided to sign a bill that might see violent ... |
24 July 2008
16:06 GMT |
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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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The time for caucus is here and now. Iowa has been known to be the "pivotal event for each White House hopeful" (Brittany Bohnet, Elections Program Manager, on the Google Lat Long Blog), so there's a reason there's so much media hype surrounding it. An Iowa Caucus YouTube Channel, the recently launched Elec... |
4 January 2008
05:49 GMT |
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I'm already tired of all the products coming out on the market in order to get a slice of the election cash pie. I wish that they would just have a meeting and come together one day and decide something like "a week from now, at 12 o'clock, we'll all release our election gadgets, pages and anything els... |
27 December 2007
04:43 GMT |
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The elections coming around have aroused an ocean of upheaval between the two big parties, so all the major Internet companies have decided to do something about it, in order to get some of the cash that has been and will be put in play for every candidate to have its share of publicity. First came Google that brough... |
20 December 2007
10:22 GMT |
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Despite already having a very good in depth site that treats the 2008 elections very seriously, the people over at the Sunnyvale based company have chosen to open up even more to the public and bring figures in an interesting way, rather than the classic polls.The new part of the site that was launched was dubbed "Da... |
17 December 2007
10:37 GMT |
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Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, John McCain and yesterday Barack Obama are the four most important candidates that have given speeches at Google. All with good chances, all crowd pleasers and charismatic figures (they must be, or else they wouldn't have been running for president), all with something to prove, al... |
15 November 2007
04:52 GMT |
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Westlife apparently have set their eyes on a winner and probably feel that five is always better than four. The fact is, it has been rumored that the hugely successful boy band have invited the equally successful ex-Take That member Robbie Williams to join them. The Irish four-piece would apparently love to welcome t... |
27 October 2007
06:02 GMT |
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The 32-year-old South African star and Oscar winner Charlize Theron has just been appointed the sexiest woman alive - and just a quick look at these photos will make you go "damn right". Theron has followed in the proud footsteps of famous predecessors such as Jessica Biel, Angelina Jolie and Scarlett Johansson whom ... |
10 October 2007
10:54 GMT |
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Remember me telling you that kid Rock ranked among the world's most profound thinkers? Well, you can refresh your memory here and then come back to learn more about his intellectual exploits that will most certainly shock and amaze you. It seems that Kid Rock (or, in the words of another contemporary classic tha... |
8 October 2007
06:16 GMT |
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Glu has taken a highly democrat approach to mobile gaming and gotten its feet deep in politics. This leading global publisher of mobile games has just released "White House Rumble", a mobile game that looks to provide entertainment to players through offering them a new approach on politics.The game is especially des... |
20 September 2007
11:29 GMT |
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The world is changing and there's no way to stop this. It all tends to be digitized and no matter what, it becomes addicted to the computer. Even the federal elections are now based on computer systems. If you don't trust me, read this. Google has just rolled out a 2007 Australian Federal Election page whic... |
14 September 2007
15:06 GMT |
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The famous online video sharing platform is about to host the first CNN YouTube presidential debate that brings the Democratic candidates in front of the YouTubers and allows them to ask any kind of question. Basically, it works like an interactive video meeting: the registered members of the service have the possibi... |
24 July 2007
03:06 GMT |
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The famous popular video sharing service YouTube is now involved in an interesting case after a clip showing seven students from the Tony Blair's children's school taking drugs was published on the official page. All the pupils were suspended but the police officers said there is no official case concerning... |
11 July 2007
10:31 GMT |
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The Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton turned to YouTube and posted a clip on the online video sharing service to require users' help to choose her campaign song. The clip is already among the most popular ones on YouTube, recording no less than 544.043 views and 117 comments. Basically, the video required u... |
28 May 2007
14:31 GMT |
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The online video sharing service YouTube and CNN signed a deal to host the first of the six political debates concerning the upcoming 2008 Presidential race. Although Google's video product is already deeply involved in the presidential campaign, owning CitizenTube and You Choose 2008 - two political channels on... |
18 May 2007
17:06 GMT |
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Google officially announced that it will host several interviews with the US presidential candidates who are all invited at the Mountain View headquarters. Recently, Senator Hillary Clinton and Senator John McCain joined the Google team for an interview that was also posted on YouTube to be commented by its viewers."... |
8 May 2007
02:32 GMT |
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YouTube is the video service recently acquired by Google in October 2006 for $1.6 billion. Since the Google acquisition, YouTube received several updates meant to attract even more customers. They were quite successful as the company's representatives sustained the number of visitors was boosted by the user gene... |
10 April 2007
06:28 GMT |
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Recently, YouTube made the first step to the political area after it agreed to publish numerous clips with the Presidential candidates for the US election campaign. Today, a new similar case was reported in Pittsburgh where the candidates for the mayor of the second largest city in Pennsylvania uploaded multiple vide... |
13 March 2007
09:42 GMT |
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After the Viacom removal, YouTube started a powerful campaign of partnerships to increase the number of videos they provide, trying to cover all the areas that are required by users. Today, a new special channel was revealed, You Choose 08 representing the YouTube feature that will present all the US Presidential can... |
6 March 2007
05:19 GMT |
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