Tag Archives: violent

The London Evening Standard may have seen fit to revoke claims that gaming was a partial cause for last week’s UK riots, but the same can’t be said for Noel Gallagher. The former Oasis star and now solo performer has told NME that violent games and TV are the main …

The American video games industry has today emerged victorious in its six-year battle with Californian authorities. The US Supreme Court today ruled in favour of gaming in the case entitled Brown, Governor of California et al vs Entertainment Merchants Association et al. This means gaming is now safe from the …

Third time lucky. That must be the thinking behind Labour MP Keith Vaz’s posting of a third games-related Early Day Motion in ten months. The latest, entitled ‘Video Games and Young People’, is possibly his vaguest yet. It reads as follows: "That this House welcomes the call by Shigero Miyamoto, …

Major publisher figureheads such as EA’s John Riccitiello, Sony’s Jack Tretton, Take Two’s Strauss Zelnick and Dinsey Interactive’ Graham Hopper have expressed their concern that the potential introduction of new laws controlling the sale of video games could have a major impact on the sector’s viability in North America. In …

Having revealed last year that it was to consider illegalising the sale of violent video games, the German government has confirmed that it is to abandon the plans. Game Politics reports that the decision follows a successful campaign that saw the submission of a 73,000 signature strong petition. The document …

The last 12 months has seen the games industry make great strides in its efforts to fortify bonds with Government, but it seems that some old prejudices remain. In a debate lead by Labour MP Diane Abbott on London gang crime at Westminster yesterday, MPs linked the problem of increased …

Though his gory, explicit and thoughtful directing style would produce some fascinating results in the gaming space, it looks as if Pulp Fiction and Inglorious Basterds director Quentin Tarantino is unlikely to be the next big Hollywood name to try his luck at making a game. In recent times top-level …

The man who will be filling the shoes of the outgoing South Australian Attorney-General Michael Atkinson is said to be in favour of the introduction of an R18+ age rating for video games in the country – a move that would effectively legalise violent games. Current Attorney-General Michael Atkinson became …

Move is the answer to a question the rest of the industry didn’t want to ask with Nintendo wearing the crown: What’s out there for non-Nintendo developers who want Wii functionality but on a platform that is kinder to third parties? Move’s similarity to Wii becomes a benefit to developers …

The man who many see as the main barrier to Australia’s introduction of a R18+ ratings certificate, Attorney-General Michael Atkinson, is to leave Parliamant in 2014. Atkinson has been involved in a number of controversies over his two decades in Government, the most recent of which is his resolute stance …