Violent Video Games

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Oklahoma Lawmaker Wants Anti-Bullying Tax On Video Games

12:30PM February 2, 2012 | Owen Good

“Violent video games,” a governmental classification of speech and expression that the Supreme Court found a smidge troubling last June, would be taxed extra under a proposed law in Oklahoma, with the collected money going toward state programs fighting bullying and child obesity. Here we go again. More »


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Doom No Longer Regulated Like Porn In Germany

12:00PM September 1, 2011 | Owen Good

When they were released in Germany, Doom and Doom 2 were immediately “indexed” into a government regulated category that includes porn. A successful appeal of that decision has them now rated for older teenagers to buy, Joystiq reports. More »


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Supreme Court Justice Opens Up About Her Vote On Video Game Law

1:30PM August 5, 2011 | Owen Good

Justice Elena Kagan [back row, far right] , whom Stephen Totilo said “did seem to get it” during oral arguments in Brown v EMA, called the case the most difficult of the Court’s most recent term, one in which she felt she was constantly in the wrong no matter her current state of mind. More »


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Violent Video Game Legal Battle Could Cost California Another $US1.1m

2:20AM July 26, 2011 | Mike Fahey

Now that the smoke has cleared and the video game industry stands triumphant over the state of California in the Supreme Court battle over making it a crime to sell violent games to minors, the Entertainment Software Association needs to pay its lawyers. Why hello there, California taxpayers. More »


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Utah Pol Throws In The Towel On Anti-Game Bill After Supreme Court Ruling

1:30PM June 30, 2011 | Owen Good

Most of the time, a Supreme Court ruling has its intended effect of being the final word on laws, be they good or bad. On some issues, you can count on the defeated side looking for a way around the decision. The Utah state legislator behind an anti-games bill says he won’t pursue it in light of Monday’s high court ruling, though he seems to have arrived at that choice grudgingly. More »


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Know Your Rights

2:00AM June 28, 2011 | Sam Winstrom

Justice of the Supreme Court Antonin Scalia defends the Supreme Court’s decision to keep violent video games in the hands of California gamers based on the First Amendment.


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First Amendment Trumps California In Supreme Court Battle Over Violent Video Games

12:23AM June 28, 2011 | Stephen Totilo

The Supreme Court sided with the video game industry today, declaring a victor in the six-year legal match between the video game industry and the California lawmakers who wanted to make it a crime for anyone in the state to sell extremely violent games to kids. More »


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Violent Video Games Contribute To Dropping Crime Rate, Study Suggests

8:00AM June 23, 2011 | Jen Schiller

As it turns out, all that warning that violence in video games is bad for your brain may be… well… wrong. More »


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Does This Experiment Prove Violent Games Increase Aggressive Behaviour?

6:40AM May 26, 2011 | Mike Fahey

In a University of Missouri study sure to be cited by anti-gaming pundits for years to come, researchers provide what could be considered solid proof of the link between violent video games, aggression, and wearing funny hats. More »


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Gamers More Agitated By Playing Sports Games Than Shooters

9:30AM May 5, 2011 | Owen Good

There’s a couple of ways to look at this latest video game study out of the UK. Either there is no meaningful link between playing violent video games and aggressive behaviour, or FIFA 11 is deadlier than Modern Warfare. More »