Source: http://www.netjak.com/review.php/1091

This is a recent interview with Jack Thompson that caught my eye. This guy just never learns.

On his strategy with being at the shareholders meeting for Take Two:

I’m also going to bring up Bully, which is a revenge fantasy and a ( Read more... )

It is no exaggeration to say that video games can help train people to kill.

Oh yes it is.

Ask the people we trust most, the U. S. States military. The military succeeds at the difficult task of getting people to overcome their natural barriers to committing unthinkable acts of violence. It uses video games to train our servicemen and women for ( Read more... )

Jack Thompson Here with a Warning for the Pixelantes ( Read more... )

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1976339,00.html

The title: Gory games that can warp your brainLovely, huh ( Read more... )

Source: http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/gossip/ps3-controller-redesign-147443.php

Interesting, yes?

And there's this, from the first [and only] comment to the article:


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What does the future hold for the anti-gaming movement? Fortunately, not much ( Read more... )

Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold trained on the violent video game Doom to rehearse for the carnage of Columbine.

LIE. Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold improved their marksmanship skills out in a field near their homes. There's video tapes of this.

The worst school massacre since Columbine - in Red Lake, Minn., in April 2005 - was at the hands of ( Read more... )

The Nintendo Revolution. Funny that it would have that name, because it's release into the world, I think, is going to bring exactly that: revolution. How? Let me explain ( Read more... )

http://www.umich.edu/news/index.html?Releases/2005/Dec05/r120505

I'm so tired of this shit.

"It's already well known that playing violent video games increases aggressive behavior and decreases helping behavior," said University of Michigan researcher ( Read more... )

The current state of games is where I'd like them to be: In the spotlight. Sure, that light may be being wielded by the anti-gamers on occasion, but when it comes right down to it, their ramblings mean nothing, and everything they accomplish helps the industry. The more they bitch, the more copies get sold. The more copies of a particular type of ( Read more... )