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Safety costs may derail Sail Boston 2009 event
Boston :: MA :: USA | 9 months ago
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tall ships from across the world dotting Boston Harbor in July, recalling the city's maritime history in a parade of billowing white sails and crisply attired sailors. Twice in the last two decades, the event known as Sail Boston has drawn millions to...
Tags: The Boston Globe, Boston Harbor, Sail Boston, Boston Tall Ships, Boston Business Journal, video game, sailed boston, game industry
The gamer's book of records
Bangkok :: Thailand | 9 months ago
Credibility The launch of the Guinness World Records 2009: Gamer's Edition last month brought video gaming out into the fresh air and broke a world record into the bargain. A motley crew of gamers, alongside Tomb Raider's Lara Croft (played by model Alison Carroll),...
Tags: world, video game
Cyber game simulating rape pulled
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | 9 months ago
Credibility Online retail giant Amazon has yanked from its virtual shelves a Japanese computer game that lets players simulate raping girls. A "Rapelay" videogame being hawked on Amazon by a third-party merchant was deemed inappropriate and the product's page taken...
Tags: Amazon Marketplace, video game, web site, simulating rape, lets players, particular item, players simulating, rape girls
'Godfather' video game suit settled
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 10 months ago
Credibility AP Photo/Electronic Arts, Inc.File) The undated image from video, courtesy of publisher Electronic Arts, Inc., shows Don Vito Corleone, left, requesting a favor in "The Godfather: The Game."The estate of "The Godfather" author Mario Puzo has tentatively...
French probe into rogue trading scandal nears end
Paris :: France | 10 months ago
Credibility French judges on Thursday questioned trader Jerome Kerviel for probably the last time as they wrap up a year-long probe into the biggest rogue trading scandal in history and prepare for trial. Kerviel and his assistant have been charged over the staggering...
Tags: Kerviel Jérôme Kerviel, Jerome Kerviel, Mr Kerviel, video game, Societe Generale
Teen killed mother in Halo 3 row
Wellington :: OH :: USA | 10 months ago
Credibility The defence team for Daniel Petric, 17, had argued his addiction to the Halo 3 game, in which players shoot invading aliens, had made him insane. But the judge rejected this, saying he had planned revenge for weeks. Petric, of Ohio, was tried as an adult...
Tags: video game, game, convicted, halo 3, teen, Daniel Petric, usa, took away
Gaming Consoles cost us $1 Billion in Energy consumed per year
And you thought the list of evils associated with video games was limited to promoting violence and escapism. A report by the National Resources Defence Council insists that consoles consume $1 Billion worth of energy per year. A pretty hefty sum...
Tags: video game, consoles, energy
Mark Hamill Brings Trademark Creepy Laugh To Arkham's Joker [Arkham Asylum]
Batman :: Turkey | 11 months ago
Credibility Now uber dark Arkham Asylum game is working with Hamill to guarantee the chills. Eidos and Warner Bros’ video game Batman: Arkham Asylum is certainly trying to guarantee the good by bringing on Mark Hamill to voice The Joker. Hamill has already proven...
Tags: joker, Arkham Asylum, Mark Hamill, video game, Batman, Heath Ledger
17-year-old says I've a surprise & shoots mom dead for not letting him play violent video game Halo 3
Earlier this week, a court heard a murder trial that is not just shocking, but very chilling indeed. Daniel Pertric, shot his parents, killing his mother and wounding his father, for the simple reason that that they wouldn't allow him to play the violent...
Tags: kid shoots mom, kid shot mom, video game, halo 3, daniel petric, mark petric
Son allegedly killed mom over Halo ban
Elyria :: OH :: USA | 11 months ago
Credibility Prosecutors alleged Monday that an Ohio teenager killed his mother and severely injured his father because he was not allowed to play a video game. Lorain County prosecutors told a jury that Daniel Petric, 17, took his father's 9mm handgun from a lockbox...
Tags: video game, halo 3, game, teen, Daniel Petric
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