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Jack Thompson Guilty on 27 of 31 Misconduct Charges, Says Bar Trial Judge... FL Supreme Court Must Now Rule

2008-05-20 14:24:06 by gamepolitics in GamePolitics.com
 
...game attorney represented the families of two police officers and a police dispatcher slain by 18-year-old Grand Theft Auto player Devin Moore Tunis also recommended that Thompson be found guilty on four out of five counts relating to his 2006 attempt to have Rockstar's Bully declared a public nuisance in a case before Miami Judge Ronald...
 
Tags: judge, jack thompson, court, thompson, rules, florida bar rules, florida bar, judge tunis, guilty
 
 
 
 
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Lesbian Game Reviewers Love GTA IV

2008-05-20 10:57:05 by gamepolitics in GamePolitics.com
 
...game are lowlifes As one of the reviewers, Tracy, explained it to GamePolitics in an e-mail The review looks at the political satire in GTA IV and came as a shock to many readers since it didn't simply jump on the GTA = evil bandwagon. We run a lesbian video gaming site and received many emails and comments about how well-rounded our review...
 
Tags: gta, video, video review, review, equal opportunity insult, lesbian video, political, site, political satire
 
 
 
 
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Jack Thompson's GTA Vice City Lawsuit Tossed Out by New Mexico Appeals Court

2008-05-20 08:10:35 by gamepolitics in GamePolitics.com
 
...GamePolitics The local attorney is] in charge of filings in New Mexico. I have nothing to do with the appeal We tried to reach that attorney, Steven Sanders, last month but he did not return our call GP: While the appeal was dismissed on what amounts to a technicality, the entire premise of the lawsuit was a disgrace. As I outlined in a...
 
Tags: mexico, mexico appeals court, cody posey, cody, mexico courts, appeals court, 14-year-old cody posey, lawsuit, posey
 
 
 
 
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Second Life's Flying Phalluses Inspire Real-World Political Prank

2008-05-20 06:57:52 by gamepolitics in GamePolitics.com
 
...game victims. Perhaps the most famous form of SL animated mayhem is - no delicate way to write this - the flying penis attack The Sydney Morning Herald reports that some Russian pranksters apparently adapted the Second Life stunt to disrupt a real-world political meeting in Moscow. From the newspaper report The meeting was being address by...
 
Tags: life, real-world political, moscow, moscow times website, russian pranksters apparently, penis, life stunt, twin-rotor toy helicopter, penis attack
 
 
 
 
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Meat Shield, New Chainsaw Attack Prompting Gears of War 2 Controversy

2008-05-20 06:12:19 by gamepolitics in GamePolitics.com
 
...GamePolitics readers may recall that the original GoW, released in 2006, was banned in Germany over government concerns about the game's level of violence Citing a Yahoo! Games report which detailed a press event held last week by Microsoft in San Francisco, the newspaper frets over a pair of new moves A popular video game for the Xbox 360 is...
 
Tags: game, popular video game, chainsaw, meat shield, press event held, gamepolitics readers, phoenix news, melee attacks, level
 
 
 
 
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GameCyte Video Interview with California's Leland Yee

2008-05-20 05:54:26 by gamepolitics in GamePolitics.com
 
GameCyte has posted a two-part video interview with State Sen. Leland Yee (D), architect of California's contested 2005 video game law That legislation, which was ruled unconstitutional by a U.S. District Court judge in August, 2007, is currently under appeal
 
Tags: leland yee, two-part video interview, video game law, district court judge, california, gamecyte, ruled, architect, appeal
 
 
 
 
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Variety Compares EA/T2 Takeover Bid to Hillary Clinton Campaign... We Disagree

2008-05-20 05:43:58 by gamepolitics in GamePolitics.com
 
...GamePolitics reported yesterday - EA has extended its deadline until June 16th Variety's Ben Fritz, who pens The Cut Scene blog, yesterday compared EA's takeover bid to the seemingly doomed presidential campaign of Sen. Hillary Clinton EA staying in this race is a bit like Hillary Clinton staying in it -- only a complete implosion by the...
 
Tags: campaign, take-two deal, deal, hillary clinton, million, million shares, take-two, publisher take-two interactive, takeover bid
 
 
 
 
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Report: Winnipeg Kids Crashing Stolen Cars Into Cops ..."Like the Best Video Game"

2008-05-19 18:06:00 by gamepolitics in GamePolitics.com
 
...game, but better, in the whole world.' They get behind a $60,000 high-end vehicle and drive as fast as they want No specific video game was mentioned. But Liz Wolff, a therapist, related the car thefts to Manitoba's high poverty rate, not video games These kids don't have a shot in hell. Their lives have no hope. They don't have a lot of...
 
Tags: video game, specific video game, cars, bad boy persona, monitors youthful offenders, auto theft squad, bad girl, liz wolff, doug safioles
 
 
 
 
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Rocket Science: Games Don't Cause Crime, May Be Key to Education

2008-05-19 17:22:18 by gamepolitics in GamePolitics.com
 
...games as an educational tool and disputed supposed links between games and criminal behavior As reported by the Truro Daily News , NASA's Daniel Laughlin said Since 1993, violent crime in Canada and the U.S. has declined by 50 per cent and during that time the video gaming industry has exploded. If video games were really linked to crime,...
 
Tags: games, video games, crime, video, real science, nasa, nasa researcher, real careers astrophysicists, laughlin