A recent study by the American Psychological Association suggests that there is a connection between video game violence and real-world violence. The inflammatorily-named ...
August 18, 2015 at 4:00 pm by Ashley Allen
For many years computer games have been viewed as mindless entertainment and have not received the recognition they have deserved, then games companies hit the mainstream with ...
July 19, 2015 at 3:00 pm by Christopher Files
For those familiar with the Fallout series, you will recognise the currency that’s used within the game, bottle caps! and one very dedicated fan took it upon himself to ...
June 26, 2015 at 8:58 am by Chad Parry
The UK’s former reviewer of anti-terrorism legislation wants video game developers to help in the fight against young Muslims becoming radicalised by producing video games ...
June 15, 2015 at 3:35 pm by Ashley Allen
In an effort to attract video game makers over to the British Isles, the UK government is to offer tax breaks to developers worth millions of pounds. The tax break cap could ...
April 1, 2015 at 4:55 am by Ashley Allen
Violent media has long been a scapegoat for societal ills: from the 1960s through to the 1980s, conservative reactionary Mary Whitehouse waged a one-woman war on social ...
March 24, 2015 at 9:28 pm by Ashley Allen
After an early stutter after its 2012 release, the Wii U had its highest-ever sales over December last year, capping off a strong showing over 2014 as a whole. Nintendo sold ...
January 20, 2015 at 2:58 pm by Ashley Allen
Sid Meier, video game author and creator of famed strategy series Civilization, is setting course for outer space with new sci-fi strategy game Sid Meier’s Starships. Taking ...
January 20, 2015 at 9:58 am by Ashley Allen
Jonatan Söderströmm, co-creator of video game Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number, has told Australians that, if they want to play the game, they should “just pirate it”. ...
January 19, 2015 at 11:58 am by Ashley Allen
Non-profit digital library Internet Archive has continued its effort to conserve and share classic video games by updating its game library with a whopping 2,334 MS-DOS games, ...
January 8, 2015 at 4:28 am by Ashley Allen
As a gesture of good faith to anyone unfortunate enough to have bought a season pass for the bugfest that is Assassin’s Creed: Unity, Ubisoft recently offered customers a ...
December 21, 2014 at 7:49 pm by Ashley Allen
The US Federal Trade Commission has ruled that Sony put out ads in the US that misled customers as to the “game-changing” capabilities of their handheld console, ...
November 26, 2014 at 2:15 am by Ashley Allen
The Call of Duty video game franchise has topped $10 billion in global sales, Activision proudly boasted, and Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare is the biggest game title, movie, ...
November 23, 2014 at 12:55 pm by Michael Hatamoto
Everyone break out your credit cards and get ready to use those PayPal accounts! The next Steam sale is reportedly going to begin on Wednesday, November 26, though Valve still ...
November 23, 2014 at 6:45 am by Michael Hatamoto
A new study confirms what many of you may have already assumed/believed about shy people who frequently play video games online: They are more likely to gain friends in a ...
November 12, 2014 at 3:49 pm by Ben Jones
