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A state representative in Oklahoma has introduced a new bill that will add an extra tax of 1 percent on all video games considered to be violent, with the money collected then used to pay for a number of programs that benefit children. William Fourkiller, who is a Democrat, has introduced a bill labeled HB #2696 whi... |
3 February 2012
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Between 2002 and 2006, about 1 in 5 murders that occurred in 88 of the largest cities in the United States were accounted for by gang violence and rivalry. Therefore, it's understandable that many parents are concerned about their children becoming members of such a group.A paper published in the latest issue of... |
18 January 2012
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Two new studies coming from researchers in the United States and in Sweden suggest that there is no causal link between the exposure to violent video games and changes in behavior in the real world.Professor Christopher Ferguson and a team of researchers at the Texas A&M International University have published a new ... |
4 January 2012
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The Syndicate remake has been confirmed as being effectively banned from sale in Australia because the Classification Board refused to award the game a classification and it seems that the game publisher is not ready to fight that decision and will not make any move to modify the title in order to conform to the MA 1... |
22 December 2011
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The Classification Board in Australia has announced that the Syndicate remake from developer Starbreeeze and publisher Electronic Arts has been refused classification in the country, which means that no stores will carry it and players will have a very hard time getting a copy.The rating agency does not say exactly w... |
20 December 2011
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Keith Vaz, who is a member of Parliament in the United Kingdom, has asked fellow politicians to engage in a significant debate about the effects of video games on children as more and more parents are preparing to give popular titles as gifts for Christmas.The politician asked, “Could we have a debate next week... |
12 December 2011
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The developers at Team Ninja have confirmed that they are planning to launch Ninja Gaiden 3 during the month of March 2012, both through Yosuke Hayashi, the lead producer on the title, and via a follow-up message through Twitter.The hack-and-slash video game installment will again follow Ryu Hayabusa as he fights hor... |
9 December 2011
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South Park has long been one of the most controversial shows on television, known for its irreverent approach to hot button topics and for mercilessly attacking those that its creators saw as hypocrites, and the upcoming game based on the franchise will use the same controversial approach.Speaking to Game Informer Fe... |
8 December 2011
06:55 GMT |
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In a study conducted using functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI), investigators were able to determine that playing violent video games changes neural activity in certain areas of the brain for up to a week after the initial measurement was made.
The brains of young adults exhibited modified activity pattern... |
1 December 2011
10:03 GMT |
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Speaking to VG247, Yosuke Hayashi, who is the leader of the Team Ninja development team, spoke to VG247 about the project and said, “We’re not just focused on the high-speed, crazy battle stuff all the time. We really want to give players a lot of undulation in gameplay. We want players to feel the drama,... |
15 November 2011
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The results of a new study by investigators at the University of Minnesota reveal that children who lash out against others in kindergarten, and who are also more violent and aggressive, usually behave this way after experiencing bad relationships with their mothers from an early age.
These tumultuous connections b... |
27 October 2011
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In a new study, a team of German investigators established that the brain activity patterns of teens who play a lot of violent and aggressive video games are very different from similar patterns recorded in gamers who do not play first person shooters. University of Bonn researchers say that this significant differen... |
18 October 2011
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London has been affected by a number of riots for four days already and a number of other cities in the United Kingdom have also been affected and already some news outlets have pointed to video games as being one of the possible causes for the chaos created by gangs of youngsters bent on destruction.But Christopher ... |
11 August 2011
02:59 GMT |
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Gaming has been held up in the last few years, by a number of influential people from academics to politicians, as one of the main causes for a number of violent incidents, implicated in anything from the Columbine shootings to the recent assault in Norway.
But at least one leading video game developer believes th... |
1 August 2011
02:29 GMT |
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Suda51, who is the Japanese developer behind the studio Grasshopper Manufacture, has announced that he plans to release the most violent social game that the market has ever seen, working together with social game network and developer DeNA. Suda51, who goes by the real name of Goichi Suda, has been until recently w... |
27 July 2011
10:22 GMT |
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The whole gaming industry, from developers to publishers or organizations like the ESA, EMA or ESRB, have saluted yesterday's Supreme Court decision against a proposed law project that would've made selling violent games a crime.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled against the proposition of the state of Califo... |
28 June 2011
16:51 GMT |
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The Supreme Court of the United States of America has just passed a ruling in the ongoing debate over violent games, and rejected the proposal of the State of California that wanted to make the act of selling violent video games to children a crime.
The debate over how violent games affect players has been raging ... |
27 June 2011
10:50 GMT |
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Scientists were finally able to establish with certainty that experiencing violent traumas to the head makes survivors more likely to exhibit aggressive, violent behaviors. The conclusions were derived from an 8-year-long study conducted on the issue. This correlation is especially true for teens, say investigators f... |
3 June 2011
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Stainless Games, the original creator of the Carmageddon concept, has officially announced that it is working on a new game in the series, called Reincarnation, which is set to be launched during 2012 on a number of unspecified platforms.
The developers are saying that Carmageddon: Reincarnation is at the moment i... |
2 June 2011
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While an important debate about the positive and negative aspects of violent video games still rages on in an American Court, experts have just released a new study, explaining why children and teens who play video games tend to exhibit an increase in aggression levels. This research – carried out by investigat... |
26 May 2011
03:32 GMT |
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Studies carried out over the years have provided conflicting evidence on whether violent video games indeed predispose teens who play them to committing acts of violence themselves. A new review of the existing literature seeks to clarify the issue.Most parents nowadays are convinced that their kids should steer clea... |
22 April 2011
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A new study has surfaced which finds a limited correlation between the level of violence included in the video games that a group of children play and the viewpoints that they hold when it comes to issues of real-world violence.
Gamasutra has obtained a copy of a new study which will be published in the Journal of... |
6 April 2011
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Experts have collected new data to prove that media channels such as video games, TV and the Internet are responsible in part for driving a series of risky behaviors in individuals exposed to their influence. One of the reasons for this may be that all these forms of media show their users what life looks like in the... |
8 March 2011
10:32 GMT |
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Publisher Electronic Arts has responded to accusation coming from television channel Fox News, saying that it is not marketing the game to children and that the violence and other mature content in the game is squarely aimed at adults.
Fox News sought to sensationalize the launch of the game, saying that Bulletsto... |
10 February 2011
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CNN correspondent Anderson Cooper was attacked and punched in the head by pro-Mubarak protesters in Cairo, Egypt just hours ago. Though he was hit about ten times, the network says no one from his crew sustained serious injuries.
As the video below and the Huffington Post confirm, Cooper was trying to get to the ... |
2 February 2011
10:21 GMT |
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Joe Baca, a Democratic Congressman in the United States hailing from California, has introduced new legislation in the House of Representatives which will require all video games that are rated T or higher by the Entertainment Software Rating Board to have a special warning label. The proposed law says that the labe... |
27 January 2011
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A study published by the American Academy of Pediatrics conducted on children in Singapore shows that about 9 percent of them were considered to be addicted to gaming, meaning that they spent enough time with them in order to suffer negative consequences.
The number is actually pretty low given the excessive time ... |
26 January 2011
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Over the past twenty years, the deaths of 1.8 million female infants and children in India are related to domestic violence against their mothers, a new study carried out by Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) researchers concluded. “Being born a girl into a family in India in which your mother is abused mak... |
6 January 2011
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Activision is continuing its tirade against California's anti violent video game law, which reached the table of the Supreme Court at the end of last year, and also criticized the fact that media and lawmakers point to games like Postal, as examples of violence.
Activision Blizzard vice president and chief po... |
4 January 2011
02:40 GMT |
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A study looking at violent video games and their impact on gamers coming from the Texas A&M International University has offered some interesting results showing that, in some cases, playing titles like Call of Duty, Halo or Gears of War can lead to more civic engagement from players.
The discovery was made by Chr... |
3 January 2011
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A new study carried out by researchers at Cardiff University, UK, concluded that teenage girls living in the most deprived areas are five times more likely to be assaulted, compared to their male and female peers.Young men have twice as many risks of being assaulted than young women, but in deprived environments, the... |
23 December 2010
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An associate professor of communication at Wake Forest University, studied the impact of realistic and violent video games on children and adolescents, and said that even if most parents believe they are harmless, the effects can be very negative.Marina Krcmar says that as the games become more and more realistic, th... |
23 December 2010
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The Texas A & M University has conducted a study that shows no link between violence in video games and in television shows and real world acts of violence or even rile breaking on the part of the children that experienced them. The study has been published in the Journal of Youth and Adolescence and has been based ... |
22 December 2010
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Even though the general belief is that violent video games trigger a subsequent aggressive behavior in young Hispanics in the US, a Texas A&M International University researcher carried out a study that concluded otherwise.Dr. Christopher Ferguson conducted the study (part of a larger review on youth violence) on 302... |
15 December 2010
03:07 GMT |
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A new study carried out by a University of Wisconsin-Madison sociologist, found that praying can help handle harmful emotions, as it becomes a source of comfort during hard times.Shane Sharp, a graduate student studying sociology at UW-Madison, concluded that three quarters of the Americans who pray on a weekly basis... |
14 December 2010
06:29 GMT |
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The actor Billy Bob Thornton has said that the current video game culture is to blame for the less than stellar output the public has recently seen from Hollywood, especially when talking about movies which are tackling the subject of violence.Thornton has said, “We're living in a time when we're maki... |
30 November 2010
02:48 GMT |
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The pre launch television advert for Call of Duty: Black Ops, which sought to highlight the multiplayer side of the game by populating a desolated battlefield with a set of characters taken from real life, including basketball star Kobe Bryant and television personality Jimmy Kimmel, is judged by an add analysis firm... |
24 November 2010
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A new study compiled by scientists at Yale University, which has been published in the November issue of the magazine Pediatrics, has found that video games are not harmful as long as those who play do not spend most of their time engaged in them.The new study is based around another study which surveyed 4,000 high s... |
22 November 2010
16:31 GMT |
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Cliff Blezinski, the designer best known for working on Unreal Tournament and on Gears of War for Epic Games, has talked about the level of violence that players can experience in the video games he is involved with, in light of the recent discussion about video games and their possible regulation after the United St... |
12 November 2010
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As human beings, we have evolved over millions of years to show empathy to other people's suffering, and to display emotions when we witness violent behavior towards others. But constant exposure to violence may actually be desensitizing today's teens. This is the conclusion of a new scientific research, wh... |
20 October 2010
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Video games have been blamed for a lot of things, but a new incident coming from the UK is really taking things to new extremes, as a grandmother blames Nintendo's Nintendogs title for causing her own dog to attack her granddaughter.Violent video games have been accused of making kids violent, but this is the fi... |
29 September 2010
15:51 GMT |
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Famous comics writer Stan Lee, the creator of such characters like Spider-Man or Wolverine, has written a special letter, designed to support video games in face of California's new law, designed to limit access to violent titles.As you all know, California is once again trying to crack down on violent video gam... |
21 September 2010
15:51 GMT |
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Prompted by a new round of negotiations that is taking place between the Palestinians and the Israelis, researchers at the University of Michigan conducted a new study children belonging to both factions, and learned that exposure to violence and war has a very negative effect.The U-M team analyzed all types of viole... |
17 September 2010
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In a recent investigation, researchers at the University of Bristol, in the United Kingdom, discovered that women who are subjected to psychological and physical violence during pregnancy tend to be more depressed after birth than their peers who are not mistreated. According to the work, which appears in the Septemb... |
6 September 2010
02:43 GMT |
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Educators around the world have yet to decide whether stemming manifestations and simulations of violent behavior in young boys is the right thing to do. As children grow, they tend to start imitating violent forms of behavior. This includes simulating gun fights and killing their opponents, and parents and educators... |
30 August 2010
02:49 GMT |
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Using street outreach workers is a paying strategy for reaching young people and preventing violence, a new study carried out by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Center for Injury Research and Policy says.Interviews with the managers, street workers, and representatives from local community groups of the United Teen ... |
20 August 2010
06:12 GMT |
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In a new scientific study, experts propose that vivid dreams which take on a violent turn are actually a clear indicator of the chances a person has of developing brain disorders later on in life. In some cases, it was discovered that the dreams appear up to 50 years earlier, which lends additional credence to the id... |
4 August 2010
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A new study of video games suggests that playing actively can lead to a reduction in stress levels and in hostility for players. The new data comes from the Texas A&M International University and Doctor Christopher J. Ferguson, who is a an associate professor.The study was performed with the help of 103 young adults ... |
27 July 2010
13:41 GMT |
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Video games, like rock and hip hop before them, are sometimes blamed for all the evils that befell the youngsters of the planet but rarely is serious science employed to really study the effects that video games have upon players. Now a study that was published on the Official Journal of the American Academy of Pedia... |
26 July 2010
02:10 GMT |
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For thousands of years, philosophers and ethicists have been trying to determine precisely what is it that makes people violent. They have also attempted, some say unsuccessfully, to provide a definition of this concept, given the fact that legal decision affecting a man or woman's entire life are taken based on... |
8 June 2010
04:13 GMT |
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