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Troy City Officials Wield Building Code to Shut Down Game Art Exhibit

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2008-03-12 13:48:08 by GamePolitics in GamePolitics.com
...officials in Troy, New York apparently used the municipal building code to shut down a controversial video game art exhibit As weve been tracking on GamePolitics , Iraqi artist Wafaa Bilal , a faculty member at the Art Institute of Chicago, was invited to present at - and then abruptly booted from -Rensselaer Polytechnical Institute Following...
 
Tags: code, city officials, city, code enforcement, troy, nearby sanctuary, sanctuary, independent media, schenectady daily gazette
 
 
 
 
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Saudi Study: Games Harmful to Kids, Scary for State Officials

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2008-01-16 07:54:29 by GamePolitics in GamePolitics.com
...officials in general. Furthermore, these games feature the destruction of state-owned property using highly explosive bombs or even destroying a whole city with a nuclear bomb GP: There is an interesting propaganda element running through this study. Note the almost obsessive concern about state security forces, state officials and state...
 
Tags: games, violent games, study, games feature, video games, security forces, study notes, critical issue youngsters, officials
 
 
 
 
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Northern Ireland Officials Approve of Byron Report

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2008-03-31 13:06:34 by GamePolitics in GamePolitics.com
...officials in Northern Ireland have expressed appreciation for the recently released Byron Review, which addresses childrens use of the Internet and violent video games eGov Monitor reports that government ministers Gerry Kelly (left) and Jeffrey Donaldson gave Byrons work their blessing. Said the Sinn Fein partys Kelly We need to ensure that...
 
Tags: video games, violent video games, people, people safe, byrons recommendations, byrons, safe, egov monitor reports, internet
 
 
 
 
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German officials want retail demo units off during school

2008-04-14 03:47:18 by Destructoid.com in Destructoid - Hardcore video game blog
 
...Officials have decided that one cause of truancy could be videogame demos, and following on from this train of logic, it is possible that retailers may be asked to switch off demos during school hours The newspaper Welt am Sonntag quoted Udo Nagel (left), state interior minister of Hamburg, as saying the idea was among 22 recommendations on...
 
Tags: school, school hours, videogame demos, combat truancy, truancy, demos, stores, criminal career, logic
 
 
 
 
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Miami-Dade Transit Officials Explain GTA IV Ad Ban Decision (sort of)

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2008-05-06 09:54:10 by GamePolitics in GamePolitics.com
...officials to pull ads for Grand Theft Auto IV As we reported late last month, the South Florida transit agency yanked GTA IV ads from bus shelters following pressure by anti-game attorney Jack Thompson While following up onthis story GP communicated withMDT Deputy Director Hugh Chen andMarketing Director Michael DeCossio. It wasmedia...
 
Tags: miami-dade county commission, miami-dade county, mdt, mdt answer, ads, pull ads, mdt familiar, restrict ads based, questionable ads
 
 
 
 
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Officials looking to gnab Link on time travel, vandalism

2008-09-21 22:06:29 by RawmeatCowboy in GoNintendo
 
...officials are being extremely secretive about the findings, but did shed some light on the matter this morning in a press conference. We dont yet know enough about the anomalies to give out any kind of information to the public, said one noted Zora and quantum physicist. While this could potentially turn into a serious situation, we urge the...
 
Tags: time, space-time tears, space-time, time travel, link, single trips forward, top scientists, scientists, extremely secretive
 
 
 
 
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Troy, NY Sued Over City Shutdown of Video Game Exhibit

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2008-05-02 11:14:01 by GamePolitics in GamePolitics.com
...officials subsequently ordered the exhibit off campus. A local venue, the Sanctuary for Independent Media in Troy, then offered Bilal the opportunity to display his work On opening night local Republican leader Robert Mirch, who alsohappens to be Troys Public Works commissioner, led a protest outside the exhibit. The following day, Troy code...
 
Tags: city, city officials, distasteful city officials, troy, mirch, bob mirch, code enforcement, sanctuary, exhibit
 
 
 
 
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Ex-IRA Member Appreciates Byron Report

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2008-03-31 12:40:11 by Earnest Cavalli in Wired: Game|Life
...officials in the UK We need to ensure that children and young people are safe on the internet," Kelly said. "I welcome Dr Byron's review and look forward to looking at the detail. Keeping children and young people safe is a priority and responsibility for us all This is the same Gerry Kelly who in 1973 was arrested in connection with four car...
 
Tags: byron, report, tanya byron, byron report gamepolitics, kelly, gerry kelly, controversial report, officials report, people
 
 
 
 
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Man Stabbed During PlayStation Game Dispute

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2007-12-21 14:11:24 by Earnest Cavalli in Game | Life
...officials adding that "the injuries do not appear to be life-threatening Obviously the impetus for the violence in this case wasn't a game so much as it was short tempers, and we're quite impressed with the mainstream press handling it as such. The fact that the game caused a dispute leading to violence is mentioned, but only once, and no...
 
Tags: game, playstation game, dispute, hospital, luis alberto santana, hospital officials, santana, officials, castillo