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He Helped Give The Australian Games Industry $20 Million, Now He May Become Deputy PM
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Fox News Says Halo 4 May Keep Gamers From Voting
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The Stop Online Piracy Act And You: A Primer
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Yep, Our Classification System Is Broken Alright
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Tony Abbott: "Happy To Look At" R18+ Rating
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The Greens Support An R18+ Rating For Games
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Now You Know Who To Blame For Your Dark Souls Deaths
In Dark Souls, death can be rough. Why not lighten the mood, then, with this mod for the PC version of the game, which takes the meme to its most brutal conclusion.
Portal 2 Writer Ted Kosmatka Imagines A World Where Creationism Won
Ted Kosmatka’s Prophet of Bones takes place in a world where absolutely everybody knows that Darwin was wrong, and the world is only 5,800 years old. Until one researcher happens on an archeological miracle: an early hominid who used tools, and clearly diverged from humans longer ago. And then people start turning up dead.
A Look At The Political Situation In The Mario Universe
Have you ever considered the political situation in the Mario universe? Over at the Slate Quora blogs, Domhnall O’Huigin dives into the question, concluding that the universe is in a “ever-ending condition of war within and war without, fraught and constantly changing as one faction or another vies for control.”
Our New Games Industry Minister Gets Geeky
Last week, Kotaku was lamenting the loss of Simon Crean, whose tenure as arts minister saw $20 million in funding for the Australian games industry. His freshly-announced replacement at least has some vaguely decent geek credentials: Tony Burke was the first man to officially use an iPad for his speech notes during Question Time.
He Helped Give The Australian Games Industry $20 Million, Now He May Become Deputy PM
You might remember Simon Crean as the Labor Arts Minister who announced that $20 Million in Federal funds would be given to the Australian games industry. Now you’ll most likely remember him as the Minister who called a leadership spill and subsequently got sacked by Julia Gillard. The man who represents a leading party in turmoil.
A Very ‘Unofficial NRA Game’ Uses Their Own Quotes To Shoot The Gun Lobby’s Logic Full Of Holes
When it comes to the increasing scapegoating that says video games cause mass shootings, game-makers haven’t had a whole lot to say in their chosen medium. Most video game companies and their representatives seem to be choosing to stay away from a debate in the court of public opinion, operating maybe on the principle that they may get outmaneuvered in the land of soundbites and pop punditry.
