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Vaping Congressman Who Spent Campaign Funds On Steam Games Resigns
U.S. Representative Duncan Hunter (R-CA) said he will soon resign from American Congress after pleading guilty to charges of misusing over $US250,000 ($365,647) in campaign funds, including $US1,528 ($2,235) that he spent on Steam games.
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Activision Hires Big-Time Lobbying Firm As Violent Games Bill Looms
Activision has gone out and hired a lobbyist — one of the biggest lobbying firms in Washington — for representation when US Senator Jay Rockefeller’s violent video games bill, which would order research into any causal links between violent video games and violent behaviour, comes to the US Senate floor.
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US Senator Wants To Know if Games Are More Dangerous Than Cartoons
The Huffington Post reports that US Senator Jay Rockefeller introduced a bill to congress that aims to study the impact of violent video games on children. Likely, this is a response to the claims that Adam Lanza played video games, and that video games might have negatively influenced Lanza.
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Blackwater Video Game Criticism Leads To Threats
Attorneys for the founder of infamous private military company Blackwater are threatening to sue a member of congress over statements she made during an interview about the PMC’s bizarrely self-aggrandizing video game Blackwater.