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Doctor Pat Holliday Releases Book, Claims Games Steal our Minds and Souls

There are game-related research results that drive me completely mad and such insane things that make me laugh all day. Dr. Pat Holliday's latest book and "discoveries" on video games are, fortunately, part of the latter category. And, trust me, this is the craziest stuff you've ever heard since anti-games ...

8 April 2008
13:06 GMT

Violent Games Actually Make People Relaxed and Less Angry

Every now and then some psychologists, scientists or general researchers come up with a study that makes us, the gamers, feel a little bit better and hope that the general game-hating will drop (at least a little). Of course, these types of studies are far less than those who prove the contrary - but at least they do...

2 April 2008
03:28 GMT

Fight for Your Video Games!

An US website created "for American gamers to organize and defend against threats to video games" has started the fight against the government's decisions that could influence the gaming industry in a bad way and are trying to make everybody understand that the freedom of speech is the biggest right of them all....

24 March 2008
16:06 GMT

Blame Video Games for Your Poor Grades!

To say it short and begin as no news should, here is the conclusion: video games make you dumb. Loud and clear, that is what some German scientists from Kriminologischen Forschungsinstituts Niedersachsen (KFN) have found out. And, yes, I will always be fascinated by the results of these studies. Then laugh for a whol...

18 February 2008
08:12 GMT

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 concerns regarding the violence in video games, ...

16 January 2008
04:15 GMT

US Parents Know 'Little to Nothing' About the ESRB System

What do you know, a study reveals again that youngsters can easily get their mitts on M rated video games in the United States. The survey conducted by a certain family group, revealed that "seven out of ten parents know little to nothing" about the video games rating system.According to the piece of information up o...

5 December 2007
08:48 GMT

The BBFC Themselves See No Direct Link Between Manhunt 2 and 'Behavioral Harm'

Recent news surrounding the ever-present issue of whether anti-social behavior is connected to violent video games have surfaced again, this time in the form of an extensive BBFC report. The board accepts the fact that there is no proof to any of this, but raises more questions actually, claiming that "more research ...

28 November 2007
05:06 GMT


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