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Games with mature content are usually those that involve a certain degree of either explicit violence or romantic development of a situation. In order to protect the fragile minds of the young, games have to pass a strict rating approval from a certified commission in order to be sold. There are a lot of such ratings... |
10 November 2009
15:01 GMT |
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Just like the first Manhunt, the second installment in the series was mainly based on violence and gore. The original Manhunt followed the story of a convicted and officially executed criminal that was saved from the death penalty only to partake in a violent and sinister hunt for his fellow man. Set as the prey in ... |
2 November 2009
06:42 GMT |
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Milla Jovovich has long stopped being just another pretty face, becoming the reigning queen of action / zombie movies with the release of the first “Resident Evil” film, as MTV once said of her. With all that, she would probably not let her daughter Ever see her work anytime soon, being of the opinion tha... |
31 October 2009
07:21 GMT |
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The Australian rating board has confirmed that the original version of Left 4 Dead 2, the zombie shooter from Valve and Electronic Arts, will not be allowed under any circumstances to be sold and marketed in the country. Its recent decision upholds the initial judgment related to the video game that said that the lev... |
23 October 2009
16:21 GMT |
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One of the more unnerving sights of the last few months has been the marketing campaign for Dragon Age: Origins, the BioWare developed and Electronic Arts published role playing adventure set to arrive on the Xbox 360 and the PC on November 3.The promos, which used to focus on the fantasy world and on the various RPG... |
19 October 2009
08:08 GMT |
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Teen psychologists and parents have tried to figure out for a long time some of the triggers that make their children engage in violence before they turn 20 years old. In a new scientific study, experts propose that some of the youngsters do not possess the ability to correctly interpret social cues, such as the faci... |
18 September 2009
16:51 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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Over the past few years, an alarming rise in couple violence incidence has prompted experts to look for solutions to this serious problem. What is even more concerning is the fact that teen couples have also joined the trend. This means that, later on in life, partners that now abuse or are abused will translate this... |
4 August 2009
15:41 GMT |
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Kids grow up so fast these days, but it seems that they also pick up almost everything they see around them. Such is the case with 7-year-old Weber County resident Preston Scarbrough, who took his family's car on a leisurely Sunday drive. Of course, his skills weren't that up to par, as he blew through a f... |
3 August 2009
03:55 GMT |
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Video games are getting more and more mainstream, but with such a thing comes a huge pressure from various media outlets and from their representatives, which are very biased in the whole matter of video games that are inducing violent behavior in teens. One of the most recent and discriminative acts against video g... |
28 July 2009
16:41 GMT |
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Michael Jackson has often accused his father publicly of abusing him as a child, speaking in interviews of being beaten with anything that came at hand for things as insignificant as missing a beat during dance rehearsals. Joe Jackson has, of course, constantly denied all the claims, but that isn’t stopping a B... |
22 July 2009
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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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Video games have been blamed for a lot of things over the years, especially those that featured violence as they were believed to influence young people and teach them that violence was actually fun and could be sustained in real life, not only in the virtual realm. Even though studies have infirmed such things, it ... |
9 June 2009
16:41 GMT |
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During a 2007 concert, Akon grabbed a teenage male fan who had gotten up on stage presumably to meet his idol, raising him above his head and then threw him in the pit, where he was hurt. Akon is now serving 65 hours of court-ordered anti-violence campaign, and the tour has reached Poughkeepsie a couple of hours ago,... |
29 May 2009
05:46 GMT |
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California has decided to go to the United States Supreme Court regarding a law aimed at limiting the sale of videogames to kids under the age of 18. The law was initially put together and signed in 2005 and has since been struck down repeatedly by courts that decided it was not in agreement with the Constitution of ... |
21 May 2009
05:03 GMT |
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We're getting pretty much accustomed to people saying outrageous things about videogames, from stating that they directly cause violent crime to saying that they are full length M-rated movies. Some people have even implied that those who play videogames should not be allowed to vote, as they are not mature enou... |
12 May 2009
16:31 GMT |
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At the beginning of the month, the media picked up on an anti-domestic violence ad that starred British actress Keira Knightley and went under the dubbing “The Cut” or “Cut: The Movie.” It showed the star in a posture she had never experienced before – that of a woman physically abused b... |
27 April 2009
09:40 GMT |
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The PlayStation Portable is a popular device as it has sold over 50 million units worldwide since its release. It gained a lot of popularity with teenagers and hardcore gamers because it had a lot of interesting features and a pretty decent lineup of quality games. But it now seems that PSP is so popular that kids a... |
22 April 2009
15:01 GMT |
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Researchers at the Oregon State University have learned that classroom-based interventions on children who watch a lot of violent shows and movies on TV are very successful in reducing the amount of time these kids spend in front of the television sets. The results of the paper, which will appear in a future issue of... |
8 April 2009
10:12 GMT |
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Violence among children is one of the most appalling types, in that it's unconceivable for the adult mind that kids aged between 8 and 12 can exhibit such sadistic traits of aggression that they make adults shiver. Most explanations for this behavior lie within the influence of “evil,” as most people... |
7 April 2009
07:01 GMT |
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Video games are becoming an incremental part of our daily lives, and as such have gained the attention of quite a lot of researchers who have indulged in numerous studies to show just what kind of influence they can have on us.While a lot of them were very biased and set out to show that violent games would turn chil... |
6 April 2009
02:58 GMT |
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Following the shooting in Germany, which claimed the lives of several children and that of the gunman himself, a lot of voices have been clamoring for imposing a ban on the sales of videogames, which are seen as the catalyst in the transformation of a misunderstood teenager into a killer.Initial reports related ... |
26 March 2009
14:31 GMT |
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Angelina Jolie moves magazines and papers better than any other celebrity out there – and she does so even when she’s not really doing anything out of the ordinary. If there is one thing that she cannot sell, though, then that must be the DVD for her 2008 movie “Wanted.” The ASA has decided th... |
19 March 2009
10:29 GMT |
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Most of the time, when the traditional media talks about games, it can only adopt one tonality, that of the concerned party pointing out the evil influences that videogames have on players and especially on kids. Now, there's a new meta study that points out that the previous reports which researched the link be... |
18 March 2009
19:11 GMT |
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Video games have evolved a lot in the last few years, and have reached, as a lot of critics dare say, an art form, expressing a lot of things that usually can't be portrayed through conventional means like movies or TV shows. But let's not forget that, fundamentally, games are just a form of entertainment,... |
17 March 2009
03:16 GMT |
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According to a recent scientific study, nearly one in three employers, more than 33 percent in total, complain that they have had problems with staff being attacked at the workplace at least once over the past years. The situation is alarming, especially considering the fact that the largest portion of those who have... |
17 February 2009
05:48 GMT |
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We reported yesterday that Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe managed to sell more than 1.8 million units, which is very good news for Midway, a company that has been caught badly by the credit crunch. And it seems that due to this success, there's a good chance that we might see another Mortal Kombat videogame at th... |
28 January 2009
15:01 GMT |
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We all know how it goes. Some kid, with obvious issues, marches into the nearest education institution and shoots up the place and the media quickly discovers that he played the “murder simulator” Grand Theft Auto or that he was led to do it by excessive play time with Condemned 2. The social medium, the ... |
26 January 2009
05:09 GMT |
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The gaming industry has always been blamed for many things. Violent games like the ones from the Grand Theft Auto series, despite being rated for a Mature audience, were accused of manipulating children and encouraging violent behavior in young people. But lately this trend has seen a depreciation, and people seem to... |
23 January 2009
03:21 GMT |
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As most gamers have known from the days of Tetris, we're not playing videogames to enjoy our daily dose of over the top violence but to overcome new gameplay challenges. This is now a scientific fact as demonstrated by a study from the University of Rochester and from the firm Immersyve, which specializes in &ld... |
20 January 2009
04:41 GMT |
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We've talked about the teen who tried to use an insanity defense in his murder trial, arguing that Halo 3, his favorite game, drove him to murder. The judge in the case, named James Burge, ruled that this defense strategy was not admissible and that the defendant should be judged as an adult, which could lead to... |
19 January 2009
17:21 GMT |
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A few days ago, we talked about a Republican Congressman who wanted to add warning labels to videogames, telling potential buyers that there was a significant link between violent titles and increased aggressiveness in individuals. It doesn't matter that there's little real evidence for that link and that a... |
15 January 2009
12:11 GMT |
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New study further links the violence seen on TV with increasing rates of violent behavior among teenagers, but especially preschoolers. TV shows, action movies and extremely violent video games all have a very high impact on the way children and young adults view the world, especially if they've been exposed to ... |
27 November 2008
02:50 GMT |
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The results of a study on three year olds, which was aimed at seeing how children are influenced by the forms of entertainment they consume, have been released. One of the conclusions of the study is that children who play violent video games are more likely to adopt an aggressive behavior in relation to their peers.... |
10 November 2008
05:53 GMT |
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The Fallout series of RPGs (Role Playing Games) has been considered one of the most well polished franchises out there. It made people take notice of the fictional post-apocalyptic games by placing difficult choices in players’ hands and raising some serious moral issues. Most of them were about the violence po... |
27 October 2008
14:01 GMT |
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Psychologists say that the network of environmental factors that cause more and more teenagers to commit suicide is far more complex than anyone thought. They base their say on a new scientific study that revealed the important role neighborhoods play in influencing adolescents to develop suicidal thoughts. Daily vio... |
27 October 2008
00:55 GMT |
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Although THQ's new sandbox Grand Theft Auto-like game, Saints Row 2, has been on the store shelves for just two days, the title is already surrounded by controversy. Even though it was bound to happen, this one seems pretty serious, as it doesn't come from anti-game fanatics like Jack Thompson, but from the... |
16 October 2008
12:01 GMT |
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A new study brings further explanations as to what causes adolescent boys to physically abuse their girlfriends. Research shows that the teenagers most prone to violence are those who grew up with violent parents or in communities and entourages where violent actions were common sights. According to their own testimo... |
15 October 2008
08:25 GMT |
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It really seemed like the cases of violence and accidents that were pinned on Grand Theft Auto IV were slowing down, even stopping at some point, until this one popped up from France: a teenage boy, after supposedly playing GTA IV, went out, spread some gas on three cars and torched them. Yes, GTA IV m... |
23 September 2008
20:01 GMT |
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A videogame distributor in Thailand decided to stop selling Grand Theft Auto IV following news that a teenager confessed to copying a scene from the game as he robbed and killed a taxi driver. To my knowledge, there is no specific scene in the game that depicts the murder of a taxi driver but the confession of the mu... |
5 August 2008
02:30 GMT |
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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... |
11 June 2008
10:32 GMT |
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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 to stop. He considered that so enraging that he t... |
4 June 2008
12:06 GMT |
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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". The reason Matt Damon refused to work with the developers for Th... |
29 April 2008
13:06 GMT |
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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 ... |
21 April 2008
10:03 GMT |
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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) f... |
9 April 2008
06:06 GMT |
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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 Telegra... |
8 April 2008
05:28 GMT |
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The British Board for Film Classification, which also handles the ratings for videogames in the United Kingdom, has leaked information regarding GTA IV on its site. At the moment the information was taken down but there are plenty of things that we found out.The BBFC stated, in the leaked info, that: "The game has be... |
2 April 2008
05:17 GMT |
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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 g... |
27 March 2008
16:31 GMT |
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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 Minnesota requires children under 17 years of age who b... |
18 March 2008
10:45 GMT |
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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 common sense in the issue of vi... |
17 March 2008
11:54 GMT |
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