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Son allegedly killed mom over Halo ban

Elyria :: OH :: USA | 11 months ago

Credibility Credibility of 5

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

Wii sales booming, Nintendo president says

Kyōto :: Japan | about 1 year ago

Credibility Credibility of 5

Ltd. doubled sales of its Wii game console during the Black Friday shopping week in the U.S., company president Satoru Iwata said Monday. The company sold just under 800,000 units of the console in the week after U.S. Thanksgiving, the traditional start...

Tags: video game, video, Satoru Iwata, U.S, Nintendo, nintendo president

The Record, New Jersey: Now, researchers think kids should play video games

Newark :: NJ :: USA | about 1 year ago

Credibility Credibility of 5

Rather than wasting their time, children who gab on Facebook or play online games are gaining valuable social skills and learning some technology basics, according to a study released Thursday. The report, sponsored by the MacArthur Foundation, contradicts...

Tags: facebook, video games, video game, social, children, video

Controversial Video Game Allows You to be a Suicide Bomber

Posted by: BreakingNews  | 

Houston :: TX :: USA | about 1 year ago

Credibility Credibility of 5

The controversy surrounding video games just never ends. The latest furore surrounds a game called Kaboom that is being circulated freely on the Internet. Kaboom holds back no punches on racial profiling. The protagonist is distinctly Arab looking. He...

Tags: video game, suicide, bomber

Quote of the Day › There is considerable sensitivity to Japan among the Obama brain trust. ...

Tōkyō :: Japan | about 1 year ago

Credibility Credibility of 5

There is considerable sensitivity to Japan among the Obama brain trust. They realize that this issue is important in Japan and will try to treat it sensitively Kent Calder, director of the Reischauer Center for East Asian Studies in the School of Advanced...

Tags: nintendo, video game, Japan, Barack Obama, Technology › Nintendo DSi

Nintendo to launch new DS in Europe next summer

Tōkyō :: Japan | about 1 year ago

Credibility Credibility of 5

Japanese video game maker Nintendo will likely launch a new model of its top-selling handheld player, the DS, in overseas markets by the summer of 2009, President Satoru Iwata said. Nintendo will start selling the DSi, which can take pictures, play music...

Tags: video game, Nintendo, Japan

Beatles join MTV to produce new video game

San Francisco :: CA :: USA | about 1 year ago

Credibility Credibility of 5

However, there still remains no word of when the music of The Beatles will be released through an online download service such as iTunes. MTV, which is owned by Viacom, and Harmonix said Thursday they will develop a new video game based on the music of...

Tags: band, music, rockband, video game, MTV

Video game review: Rock Band 2 turns dial for four-player fun up to 11

Franklin :: TN :: USA | about 1 year ago

Credibility Credibility of 5

If you've yet to hop on board the "Rock Band" wagon, prepare to be swept away with "Rock Band 2." In true video game sequel form, it takes everything that made the first game great, and makes everything bigger and better. You and up to three friends...

Tags: video game, rock band

Gamasutra: Opinion: McCain's Porkbarrel Game Lacks Message

Seattle :: WA :: USA | about 1 year ago

Credibility Credibility of 5

McCain's Porkbarrel Game Lacks Message [Perhaps it's heartening that Republican presidential candidate John McCain used a video game to demonstrate his position against pork barrel spending -- but designer Brice Morrison explains just why McCain's Pork...

Tags: mccain, us presidential election, video game, John McCain, pork invaders

‘Max Payne' tops box office

Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | about 1 year ago

Credibility Credibility of 5

Max Payne" marked a successful transition from video game star to hero of the silver screen as the film debuted atop the North American box office, preliminary figures showed Sunday. Fox's noir, fantasy-tinged movie, based on the best-selling video game...

Tags: maxes payne, Mark Wahlberg, North American, north americans, tops spot, video game, americans box, Max Payne, star mark

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