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Scottish Hotel Bans Video Games
5:00PM Brian Ashcraft | Forget your PSP and DS at home! The oldest family-run hotel in Scotland, the Crieff Hydro, is asking guests not to bring video game hardware this holiday season in order to “restore traditional family values”. More »
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Xbox Live Smashes Mass Banhammer On Pirates
4:30PM Owen Good | “A small percentage” of Xbox Live users with modded consoles that allowed pirated games to play woke up to find an early treat in their Halloween bag: a banhammer. More »
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Early Play On Illegal Forza, Borderlands Resulting In Permabans
12:00PM Owen Good | Illegitimately obtained early copies of Forza Motorsport 3 or Borderlands being played on Xbox Live have resulted in permabans for the accounts of offending players, Microsoft has confirmed. More »
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Xbox LIVE Game Banned For “Visual Sexual Assault Reminders”
4:00PM Brian Ashcraft | And Yet, I Love You, an indie game developed for Xbox LIVE Indie Games Marketplace, has been pulled for being “too erotic”. More »
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10:00AM David Wildgoose | Bad news for under-18 gamers across the Tasman. Microsoft has verified the recent banning of New Zealand kids from Xbox Live downloads is all part of their plan. More »
Microsoft Confirms Locking New Zealand Kids Out From Xbox Live
10:00AM David Wildgoose | Bad news for under-18 gamers across the Tasman. Microsoft has verified the recent banning of New Zealand kids from Xbox Live downloads is all part of their plan. More »
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1:00PM David Wildgoose | Australia may not allow adults to access adult games, but at least we’re not New Zealand. There, kids can’t even access G-rated games, demos and other downloadable content on Xbox Live. More »
Xbox Bans New Zealand Kids From Live Downloads
1:00PM David Wildgoose | Australia may not allow adults to access adult games, but at least we’re not New Zealand. There, kids can’t even access G-rated games, demos and other downloadable content on Xbox Live. More » 
F.E.A.R. 2 Now O.K. After All
8:21PM David Wildgoose | The Classification Board today advised that F.E.A.R. 2 has been unbanned following an appeal by publisher Warner Bros to the Classification Review Board. In an impressive about-face, the Review Board has decided that Monolith’s horror-themed FPS isn’t quite as violent and gory as first thought and will now see release – in unedited form – in Australia in February. More » 
Microsoft Swings Xbox Live Banhammer, Thousands Fall
7:40AM Michael McWhertor | The forums trolled by Xbox Live subscribers are thick with accounts of bannings today, with what appears to be a broad sweeping set of Live accounts deleted, keeping thousands from accessing online gaming. At this point, we’re not sure of the root cause — and neither, does it appear, do those affected — but there is rampant talk in the Xbox Scene forums, at least, about the abuse of pirated copies of games like Gears of War 2 and Call of Duty: World At War. It’s all cleaned up “played early” and “back up copy” talk — thinly veiled “I pirated Game X before launch day” — amongst some users. More »
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