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US Senator Really Hates It When Federal Money Goes To Video Games
1Prom Week is a social game and a social simulation game, an IndieCade finalist designed by a team at the University of California at Santa Cruz. The game, which follows the social trials and tribulations of a set of teenagers during prom week, is in a sense a proof-of-concept work, designed to show off how…
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White House Games Guru Wants To Know What Makes Players Tick
We know video games are big in pop culture: millions of us, of all ages, play them every day. We know they’re big in business: the video game industry in the United States alone is worth over $US25 billion annually, to say nothing of the rest of the world. And it seems that the United…
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Video Gaming’s List Of Who’s Who And Where They Stand On SOPA
Much credit to Rock, Paper, Shotgun, for maintaining this registry of members of the Electronic Software Association and their on-the-record positions regarding the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), a bill almost universally despised by rank-and-file gamers.
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Oz Privacy Commissioner Gives Sony The All Clear Over PSN Breach
You probably remember that small security snafu that hit Sony back in April this year. Turns out the government didn’t just watch events from the sidelines — the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner launched an investigation into Sony Computer Entertainment Australia (SCEA) to rule out any negligence on the company’s part.
