Tag Archives: The Sun

As some in the industry were fearing, national UK newspaper The Sun has today run a story with the headline "Nintendo 3D ‘makes gamers dizzy & sick’". "Hundreds of furious gamers have slammed Nintendo’s new 3DS console – for making them feel ill," it reads. "Fans besieged gadget websites and …

UK newspaper The Sun is trying to stir up trouble for Ubisoft’s upcoming Wii and PS3 game We Dare. A new trailer for the title turned heads last week thanks to its focus on cheeky adult-orientated fun such as bottom slapping and nose rubbing. However, the Sun has latched onto …

The Sun’s now infamous ‘Sex beast copied Grand Theft Auto’ article has become the most prominent story on the homepage of the newspaper’s website today . That would indicate that the article, which only appeared on page nine of today’s The Sun paper, has grown in popularity throughout the day. …

The biggest selling newspaper in the UK, The Sun, has printed perhaps its most shocking games-related headline yet: ‘SEX BEAST COPIED GRAND THEFT AUTO’. And, yes, it’s all capital letters. On page nine of today’s newspaper, the UK tabloid reports on the court case of Ryan Chinnery, 19, who yesterday …

The Sun’s official medical expert, Dr. Keith Hopcroft, has told his readers that interactive entertainment is replacing exercise for many young men. In an article entitled, ‘Time for exercise – not for excuses’, Hopcroft writes: ‘The only bits of anatomy many young men exercise are their fingers and wrists. ‘No …

Yesterday’s astonishing attack in The Daily Mail on Sega’s Wii title Madworld has gathered momentum – with both Metro newspaper and The Sun following suit. The Sun today offers a headline of ‘Wii faces killing rap’, under which it references the game as ‘ultra-violent’ – reporting that ‘watchdogs’ had urged …

The Sun newsaper has reported that a parody of a padeophile website appears in Rockstar’s GTA IV. Under the headline ‘Video game has spoof perv site’, the newspaper reports that the ‘cheat’ allows the main character to ‘achieve’ a five-star wanted rating. It quotes an outraged fan of the series …

Newspapers across the country have responded this morning to Dr Tanya Byron’s report ‘Safer Children in a Digital World’. The Times was the most in depth, offering up two pages and a front cover to the story that included a picture of a six-year-old boy playing Grand Theft Auto. The …

TV babe Gemma Atkinson has praised Nintendo’s Wii in the build up to Play.com Live. The Hollyoaks star will be hosting Play.com Live at Wembley Stadium on March 15th and 16th, which boasts titles such as Ghostbusters and The Force Unleashed, as well as performances from the likes of We …

English children’s reading skills have slipped from third to fifteenth in the world, according to a new study – and it’s all the games industry’s fault, says The Sun. Kids hooked on computer games have sent England plummeting down world league tables for reading,” begins the story in today’s Sun. …