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Federal Appeals Court Scheduled to Hear California Game Law Case
October 29th is shaping up as a big day for the video game industry.
On that morning, oral arguments concerning California's contested 2005 video game law will be heard by judges of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court in Sacramento.
Creationist Site Targets Spore
Who knew that Spore would be so controversial?
GTA IV Radio Station Prompts Music Copyright Lawsuit
A Jamaican man who claims that he co-wrote a pair of reggae songs featured on one of Grand Theft Auto IV's radio stations filed suit over the issue against Rockstar Games and Take-Two Interactive in July.
Survey Says: Sixty Buck Game Pricing Turns Some Buyers Off
Let?s have a show of hands. How many of you find the $60 price tag of most Xbox 360 and PS3 games irksome?
Muslim Massacre Game Sparks Outrage
Muslim Massacre, an amateur PC game, has drawn sharp criticism from Britain's Islamic community.
The Clue that Fallout 3 Would be Watered Down...
Yesterday, Edge Online broke the news that Fallout 3 would ship worldwide next week with the same gameplay edits that were made to clear censorship hurdles in Australia.
ECA's Hal Halpin Reflects on PAX 2008
In a guest column for Edge Online, Hal Halpin, president of the Entertainment Consumers Association, offers his impressions of the recent PAX 2008.
Report: Serial Sex Offender Inspired by Grand Theft Auto
British tabloid The Sun has laid the blame for a string of sexual assaults at the feet of Grand Theft Auto.
Pachter: Rumored Dead Space Ban "No Big Deal"
When a publicly traded U.S. company experiences what the Securities and Exchange Commission terms an "unscheduled material event" it is required to file a form 8-K in order to alert stockholders and the market at large.
Fallout 3 to Ship Worldwide with Cuts Made for Australian Censors
Until a few minutes ago, only Australian gamers assumed that they'd be getting an edited version of the hotly-anticipated Fallout 3. However, Edge Online has learned that everyone will be getting what we might call "the Australian cut."
EA Hyped Dead Space Violence at E3
While mere gamer mortals wait to see whether the gaming gods at EA will deign to reveal whether or not the rumors that Dead Space has been banned in three countries are true, here's an interesting point.
Hyping the intense violence of Dead Space is clearly a large part of EA's marketing strategy for the game.
Adam Sessler: Remember, You Can't Actually Vote Through Xbox Live
GamePolitics readers will recall that Xbox reps were on hand at both the Democratic and Republican National Conventions in recent weeks, touting the Xbox Live service as a way for younger voters to get involved.
Aussie Film Guy Doesn't Want Same Tax Breaks for Game Biz
Game developers Down Under have been fighting for government incentives for some time. Their argument usually includes the fact that movie makers in Australia have access to such tax breaks.
Sarah Palin Action Figures... Moose Sold Separately
As reported by the St. Petersburg Times, Connecticut-based HeroBuilders is now pushing a Sarah Palin action figure with the buyer's choice of three outfits.
Gumbeat: Fight Oppression with Bubble Gum
Singapore's The Straits Times reports on an in-development game in which players use the "cheery pink power of bubblegum" to fight government oppression.
Report: Prison Guards Ordered to Play Wii with Child Killer
ThePeople.co.uk reports that guards at H.M. Frankland Prison have been ordered to play Wii games with an inmate who killed two little girls in a highly-publicized 2003 case.
Report: Dead Space Team Sticking to 3-Country Ban Claim
In Saturday's coverage GamePolitics questioned reported claims by a pair of community managers that EA's upcoming Dead Space has been banned in Japan, China and Germany.
Soldier, GTA Player Makes Ultimate Sacrifice in Afghanistan
Another in an irregular - but all too frequent - series:
This morning comes word that 20-year-old Army PFC Tan Quoc Ngo was killed in an August 27th ambush in Afghanistan.
End of the World? Half-Life's Gordon Freeman Spotted at CERN Atom Smasher
There are those who fear that tomorrow's activation of CERN's Large Hadron Collider may generate a world-ending black hole (see: Legal Bid to Stop CERN Atom Smasher from "destroying the world").
Obama Fundraiser To Be Held in Second Life
Can online games serve as a vehicle for campaign financing?
Ultima Creator Garriott Will Carry Stephen Colbert's DNA into Space
Local Elected Official is Proud of His Gaming
Earlier this year GamePolitics covered Det Ansinn, the elected head of the town council in Doylestown, PA (where, coincidentally, GP HQ is located).
