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| Preacher Wants to Burn Videogames to Limit Violence |  | One of the hallmarks of the rise of the Nazis in pre-WWII Germany was the habit of book burning. When a book was not really in tune with the official line, it got burnt rather quickly. You'd think that now, more than 70 years later, this kind of practices, also enjoyed by such nice organizations as the Communist Party in Russia and the Kmer Rouge, would be totally out of fashion. Not so, it seems. A pastor, out of all people ... [read more >>] | | 11 June 2008, 10:32GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Teen Told to Stop Playing, Attacks Family with Sword |  | And, once again, "evil video games" should be blamed for everything! This time, for a strange and sudden sword-attack that happened in Switzerland: on a Sunday morning, a 19-year-old teen was playing his favorite video games and, after a few hours, his mother told him ... [read more >>] | | 04 June 2008, 12:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Matt Damon Considers Bourne Game too Violent |  | If you were wondering why "The Bourne Conspiracy" game didn't feature Bourne himself – Matt Damon, that is, you should know that it wasn't the money offered to him, the quality of the game or anything that would generally make a star say "no&quo ... [read more >>] | | 29 April 2008, 13:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| New Girl Fight Reaches the Web |  | We live in a cruel world and in case you don't want to admit it, go over to YouTube, search for teenager fights and think about it. Two weeks ago, a couple of girls recorded a clip with one of their friends beating another girl and posted the video on the web. The audience could be heard laughing while the teen was continuously beaten. A similar case occurred in Indiana as some girls lured one of their schoolmates near a par ... [read more >>] | | 21 April 2008, 10:03GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| 16-year-old Girl Disfigured in Today's YouTube Violence Episode |  | Although it usually removes this type of videos quite quickly, YouTube tends to become the ideal place for uploading violent clips in which kids and teenagers beat other persons mercilessly. It’s exactly the case with Victoria Lindsay, a 16-year-old girl from Florida, who was beaten by some of her (apparently) friends and recorded in order to be uploaded on YouTube. And in case the term "beaten" doesn't ring any be ... [read more >>] | | 09 April 2008, 06:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Gangs Turn to Internet in order to Organize Fights |  | Last week, we told you about the Saudi girl who was killed by her father after having been caught chatting on a social network. Today, another report concerning such ways of communication hits the web: two rival gangs were using these websites to organize fights between their members. According to the Belfast Telegraph, several police officers from County Londonderry, Northern Ireland, got into trouble a few days ago when attempt ... [read more >>] | | 08 April 2008, 05:28GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| GTA IV Details Leaked |  | The British Board for Film Classification, which also handles the ratings for videogames in the United Kingdom, has leaked information regarding ... [read more >>] | | 02 April 2008, 05:17GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Uhm... Games Kill Now? |  | I bet you weren't expecting this: soon we'll probably get health warning signs on video game covers! Even though it will most likely not be something like "Playing games kills" or "Your doctor or pharmacist can help you stop playing", we'll definitely have something similar. Or, better said, you will get something similar, if you live in the United Kingdom, because ... [read more >>] | | 27 March 2008, 16:31GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Massachusetts Wants to Treat Games as Porn |  | There have been a lot of bills recently in the United States aimed at limiting the access that kids have to videogames. Most of them apparently co-authored by infamous lawyer Jack Thompson, best known for his activities against the GTA franchise.
A law enacted in Minneso ... [read more >>] | | 18 March 2008, 10:45GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Government Says Violent Games Are Not Dangerous |  | After Rockstar secured a court ruling last week, that said that its Manhunt 2 game could be sold legally in the UK, the government has stated today that it will in no way try and overturn the legal decision. More important than that, the government of the United Kingdom is showing some ... [read more >>] | | 17 March 2008, 11:54GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Manhunt 2 Goes on Sale in the UK |  | UK life has not been easy on Manhunt 2. It's a positively violent game and the Brits tend to frown upon the kind of gratuitous violence Manhunt prides upon. And the BBFC, the British Board of Film Classification, has initially ruled that the game posed "a significant risk of harm ... [read more >>] | | 14 March 2008, 13:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Dexter Game in Development |  | As videogames become more and more interesting to the general public, not just to a small band of hardcore players, the games – movies tie-ins develop into profitable business opportunities. One of the few movies based on games that has been successful is the Resident Evil movies series. On the other hand, games based on the Sopranos, Law & Order or CSI, have not developed into great retail or critical successes. Lost: Via Do ... [read more >>] | | 05 March 2008, 05:19GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| MP Claims Games Offer the Possibility of Rape |  | Debate in the United Kingdom's Parliament has again touched the issue of the games industry. Detractors of the industry lost no opportunity to launch obviously false accusations of videogames. The newest of them is that they are "rape simulators".
The debate occurred because of a law referring to the accountability of the British Board of Film Classification, the entity that establishes whether a game can or can ... [read more >>] | | 05 March 2008, 04:51GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Will Games Be Regulated in the United States? |  | Dr. Michael Rich of Children’s Hospital has declared, for a network television in the U.S., that when using the Wii "you are learning the muscle memory necessary to do those acts, to stab someone, to chop someone, to shoot someone. It’s one step closer to a virtual reality in which you are actually doing these things to people." Dr. Susan Linn, the psychologist, declared that, while more and more kids are saying their favorite pa ... [read more >>] | | 22 February 2008, 14:31GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Cop Teaches 14-Year-Old Skateboarder a Lesson on YouTube |  | Skateboard riding might not be the best thing to do, if you’re in a state that prohibits it, the Police will be on the lookout for you. Come to think about it, don’t do anything against the law, but that’s a different moral lesson, one that has to be taught by the people in charge and by the endless number of movies dealing with cops and lawyers.
The 14-year-old was stopped while skateboarding and then manhandled with brutalit ... [read more >>] | | 13 February 2008, 17:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| UK Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, Calls for Knife Ban in Games |  | The British Prime Minister has spoken about his intentions to stop video game developers to create characters who use knives as weapons, following public concern regarding the increasing crime rates in the UK, especially knife crime. Gordon Brown has already voiced his concer ... [read more >>] | | 16 January 2008, 04:15GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Hideo Kojima Wants Players to See Violence the Way It Is |  | In most cases, when violence in video games is discussed you can never get a straight answer as to whether it is or it isn't a bad thing for you. There are several points of view to analyze the issue from, but Hideo Kojima's latest interiew may just answer ... [read more >>] | | 07 January 2008, 03:02GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| “A Nightmare of Violence and Death” MMO in the Works |  | We received a fair share of games during the last three months and all of them had only one goal: to keep us busy during the holidays (this means that we had no time to eat, which means that video games fight against ... [read more >>] | | 04 January 2008, 06:26GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Second Degree Burns for Playing Nintendo Video Game |  | It has been a while since people and scientists started to blame the gaming industry. Actually, these are the times when everybody tries to find proofs that video games are the reason for all the bad things that happen in this world. Right now, we have another story: the real ... [read more >>] | | 14 December 2007, 04:53GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| The British Parliament and Video Games |  | The Culture, Media and Sport Committee of the British Parliament has announced a new inquiry into the potential risks from harmful material on the Internet and in ... [read more >>] | | 10 December 2007, 06:38GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Why are England's Kids Illiterate? Because of Video Games Of Course |  | Well, it sure seems that video games are to blame for everything. Teens steal, break and enter and even kill other people, all this because of video games. Not because our ways of dealing with problems change from one day to the next, due to hundreds of influential ... [read more >>] | | 30 November 2007, 03:40GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Shocking: YouTube Star Sent to Prison for Urinating on Dying Woman! |  | This is pretty shocking news but I think the aggressor received what he deserved: three years in prison after he was filmed urinating on a woman. It all started when Miss Lakinki, a 50-year-old woman, was going homebut because she felt sick she almost hit a door. Anthony Anderson, 27-year-old and according to BBC News, a former soldier, who was drunk and drugged, saw her and started making fun of her. Although a crowd was watchin ... [read more >>] | | 26 October 2007, 10:13GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| The War Ape, The Sex Ape |  | Everybody is familiar with the chimpanzees, but how many know that there are two species: the common chimpanzee and the bonobo or pygmy chimpanzee? The term "pygmy" for bonobo is a misnomer, as bonobo has the same size as a common chimp. They are quite similar (only that a bonobo is somehow slender), live in groups of the same size and eat the same food. But it all stops here.
If we take a further look at them, then the commo ... [read more >>] | | 25 October 2007, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Parents Say: “We Hate the Wii Gun Remote” |  | I'm sure you've heard about parents blaming Marilyn Manson or Manhunt for the teenage murders happening recently, but now it's Nintendo's turn to take some blame. The long awaited Gun Remote, one of the Wii's top controllers is being labeled as a threat t ... [read more >>] | | 14 September 2007, 04:17GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Security Software Deemed Illegal |  | Spector, a well known program designed by SpectotSoft for Internet surveillance, has been the tool of cyberspying, that later on led to violence between the spy and its target.
Many users have been said to have bought this program (close to half a million) as SpectorSoft officials declared to NetworkWorld, from which about 60 percent are home users. The program acts as spyware and tells the user whatever actions have been take ... [read more >>] | | 17 August 2007, 05:16GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Postal 2 Cheats (PC) |  | Postal 2 is a 2003 computer game by Running With Scissors. It is a sequel to the 1997 game Postal and both are intentionally highly controversial due to high levels of violence and stereotyping. Unlike its predecessor, Postal 2 is a first-person shooter base ... [read more >>] | | 15 June 2007, 03:42GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| YouTube Takes Vandalism to The Police |  | The online video sharing service YouTube is again the main source of information for the police after a 1,48 minute clip was posted on its page and showed vandalism attempts over a supermarket. According to Evening Leader, the supermarket's officials sustained that they alerted the police because two young people tried to damage a trolley shelter from the car park. At this time, the clip is a little bit anonymous as it recor ... [read more >>] | | 07 June 2007, 13:56GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Violent Footage Hits YouTube |  | Several scenes showing brutal attacks over some teenagers from Bringhton brought YouTube in spotlights, the authorities criticizing the Google product for ignorance. Their protests are aimed to attract the attention of the entire media, accusing the online video sharing service for allowing users to upload any type of content on their page. However, YouTube was often criticized for its filters but now the authorities are allied a ... [read more >>] | | 01 May 2007, 17:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Where Does the Violence Lie? |  | Human brain chemistry and genetics are working hard to decode the mental substratum of the violence, from hooligan's behavior to extreme cases, like the recent most infamous school mass shooter in Virginia.
"There is no doubt in my mind that if we could have examined his brain (the killer at Virginia Tech) we would have found anomalies, and we would have been able to suggest for him to get therapies. We might have ... [read more >>] | | 23 April 2007, 04:49GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| YouTube Might Kill You |  | The online video sharing service owned by Google causes new trouble for the parent company but this time it's not about the well-known copyright infringement. The video service is now accused by a 44 year-old woman for displaying unfiltered content after her son had panic attacks caused by a YouTube clip. It seems like 19-year old boy watched a movie on the Google video service displaying a demonic figure around a fire as Ma ... [read more >>] | | 16 April 2007, 09:57GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| YouTube Displayed Violent Videos |  | A new case concerning Google’s YouTube was reported today, accusing the video service for publishing videos without any useful method to filter the content. It seems like a violent fight in a parking lot was recorded and published on YouTube, the clip recording thousands of views until it was finally removed. Although the fight was quite violent, the movie was uploaded with ease, no Google employee trying to block or to delete th ... [read more >>] | | 26 March 2007, 05:56GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| About a Quarter of All Women Suffered a Sexual/Physical Assault during Their Lifetime |  | We use to say young and restless, but the numbers can contradict us: about one quarter of the women older than 65 have been the victim of physical, sexual or psychological violence inside their couple.
Roughly 3.5 % of the subjects had experienced violence in the past five years, and 2.2 % in the past year. "Intimate partner violence is not a problem only for younger women," said Amy Bonomi, lead author of the study and assoc ... [read more >>] | | 06 March 2007, 07:05GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
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