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Katie Price Leaves ‘I’m a Celebrity,’ Show Loses 2M Viewers

Although the public consensus seems to be that no one really likes Katie Price, formerly known as Jordan, from things like making of her divorce and personal life a “product” she sells to the tabloids to being a talentless example of a “celebrity,” it’s clear that, at least, people love ...

26 November 2009
03:49 GMT

Some Publishers Go Out Of Their Way to Deceive the ESRB

The ESRB is responsible for rating games and for deciding whether a title will be available to a larger public or to a smaller one. For games to get a certain rating, they have to meet some content requirements. If one is too violent or dabbles in mature themes, the ESRB will restrict it to an older audience. But, as...

19 November 2009
03:06 GMT

‘Dexter’ Season Premiere Scores Killer Ratings

Showtime’s “Dexter,” the twisted drama focusing on the story of a vigilante serial killer, may not be popular in the way other series are, but it’s on its way there, judging by the ratings it got on the season-4 premiere this Sunday. 1.5 million viewers tuned in to see the first episode of the...

30 September 2009
09:54 GMT

‘Jon & Kate Plus 8’ Ratings Hit All-Time Low

TLC scored a major hit with the “Jon & Kate Plus 8” reality show, as it proved with each episode that the combination of traditional family values and the sweet chaos derived from raising 8 infants was a sure winner. However, things changed when the Gosselins announced their divorce and the ensuing media ...

26 September 2009
03:51 GMT

‘House M.D.’ Season Premiere Pulls In Monster Ratings

The sixth season of the medical drama “House M.D.” premiered on Fox on Monday night and the viewers’ response was more than early estimates indicated, as 16.5 million people tuned in to see Dr. Gregory House in action, Variety informs. Even without his ever-reliable team, House managed to rise in th...

23 September 2009
08:38 GMT

‘True Blood’ Ratings Continue to Rise, New Record Set

As proof that vampire stories are, indeed, the hottest commodity on the market right now, whether we’re talking feature films or television productions, the ratings for HBO’s “True Blood” continue to rise, Variety informs. Every Sunday night marks a new record for the vampire series, with the ...

26 August 2009
05:02 GMT

Kate and Jon Gosselin Show Will Not Survive on TV

The latest season of “Jon & Kate Plus 8,” the reality show about a married couple and their life as parents of no less than eight children, can be seen as a clear indication that, soon enough and if things continue to progress like this, audiences will be spared of the Gosselin drama. As ratings continue ...

14 August 2009
09:18 GMT

Jon and Kate Gosselin Get Average Ratings with Reality Show

“Jon & Kate Plus 8,” the reality show fans used to watch with joy a few months back, has begun to go from bad to worse, both in terms of the personal lives of the two Gosselins and in terms of ratings. The back-to-back episodes that premiered the other day on TLC have managed to score only average ratings...

5 August 2009
09:21 GMT

United Kingdom Preparing to Get Tough on Piracy

These days have been extremely important for the videogame industry, especially in the United Kingdom, with the Government deciding that the PEGI ratings system would be used to label games but also with the release of a new report related to the way the digital society would be implemented in the country.The Digital...

18 June 2009
03:21 GMT

Analyze That: 68% of American Households Are Playing Videogames

In the wake of E3, where the titles that companies should release in the coming year were showcased, the Entertainment Software Association, which organizes the show itself, outed an interesting report revealing how important gaming has become to the American way of life.The main thing that jumps off the page is...

13 June 2009
07:31 GMT

ESRB Now Provides Ratings Summaries

The Entertainment Software Ratings Board has announced that it is offering all new “ratings summaries” in an effort to make sure that in the run up to the highly expected Christmas shopping season, buyers are correctly informed about the goods they are about to pick up.The idea is to provide explanations ...

13 November 2008
05:13 GMT

Fallout 3 Drops Real World Drugs

So, this is the day that censorship wins. We reported earlier in the summer that Fallout 3 was going to be banned from sales in Australia because the regulatory body for videogames, the Office of Film and Literature Classification, had decided that the references to real drugs in the game, where they were used to rel...

11 September 2008
21:11 GMT

Game Releases in the United Kingdom Might Be Delayed

In the wake of the Byron report, which tried to assess the way videogames affect different categories of consumers, mainly children, the United Kingdom government is preparing to propose and then implement a new rating system for videogames. The current system mentions that only games labeled by the PEGI as being in ...

30 June 2008
16:06 GMT

A PC Will Get Hacked Faster Than You Can Eat a Burger!

A statistic by Garlik shows that there are 300 online crimes in the United Kingdom per hour! This is way off the scale! Just think about it, it means that cyber-crime takes place every 12 seconds. You don't even have time to finish your burger between two e-crimes happening. Well...that's unless you stuff i...

6 September 2007
08:46 GMT

Internet Software Not to Be Trusted

Surely you have downloaded some software from the Net, I know I sure did, in fact, I think that most of the programs on my computer are coming form the Internet, I rarely go and buy them from the shop. Well, when I download some program (may it be either shareware or freeware) I look at how it's rated on that si...

21 August 2007
03:13 GMT


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