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Outrage! UK media up in arms over DS games
Filed under: News It's rare to see DS titles being held responsible by the mainstream media for society's ills. Usually, such treatment is reserved for home console releases, but in the last 24 hours...
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Japanese hospitals want Dementium off store shelves
Filed under: News Dementium: The Ward hit Japan this year (along with a colorful launch event for the game), yet is now enduring its first public outcry in the country. According to Yahoo! News (and...
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Joystiq interview: Bungie's Marty O'Donnell on the 'digital content crisis'
Filed under: Culture, Features, Microsoft Xbox 360, Interviews, Business Marty O'Donnell caused something of an uproar recently following controversial comments aimed at used video game sales. In...
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LittleBigControversy: Qur'an lyrics debated on BBC
Filed under: Culture, Sony PlayStation 3 This week's BBC News at Ten featured a discussion on the LittleBigControversy, in which the game was delayed at the eleventh hour due to a song, featuring...
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House of the Dead: Overkill dev not worried about censors, piles on the gore
Filed under: News, Interviews Censors, be damned! That's more or less the attitude of House of the Dead: Overkill developer Headstrong Games, which has said it won't be compromising the amount of gore...
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Phew!: Waggle doesn't produce murderers
Filed under: News There is a popular viewpoint pushed by those who campaign against the likes of Manhunt 2, and it runs a little like this: motion-controlled on-screen violence is more likely to...
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Animal Crossing: Wild, Racist FILTH [update]
Filed under: News Update: Nintendo has issued an official statement. Head past the break to read it. Nintendo is, famously, very politically correct where Animal Crossing is concerned. In the games,...
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Lock up your children: Mr. Resetti may 'disturb' them
Filed under: NewsFACT: Animal Crossing games would be a lot less awesome without Mr. Resetti. The maddened mole teaches his lessons through tough love, subjecting players to lengthy, unavoidable rants...
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A new MadWorld trailer for the holidays
Filed under: Video Sega and Platinum Games have sent us a gift for the holidays in the form of the trailer you see above. It gives us a little more background on the story behind MadWorld, as well as a...
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EA caught, hand slapped for using Xbox 360 footage in Wii commercial
Filed under: News EA has been asked to pull advertisements for the Nintendo Wii version of Tiger Woods PGA Tour 09 by UK's Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) for images the agency claim are...
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Big surprise: Eidos caught fixing Game of the Year poll
Filed under: News Oh, Eidos. Not content with turning Jeff Gerstmann into some kind of martyr or trying to fiddle Tomb Raider: Underworld scores, the morally dubious publisher has now been caught...
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Is Islam the light for DS Baby Pals? [update]
Filed under: Culture, Nintendo DSLast fall, controversy about Fisher-Price's Little Mommy Cuddle 'n Coo doll rocked the local news circuit, when the doll was discovered to utter some kind of gibberish...
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MadWorld mows down North America on March 10
A Sega America representative has confirmed that MadWorld is ready to begin its reign of bloody action on March 10th on the Wii in North America. Oddly enough, the title still does not have an...
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Diablo II's producer weighs in on sequel's art style
Former VP of the now-defunct Blizzard North and producer of Diablo II, Bill Roper, agrees with fans who feel Diablo III ... well, doesn't quite look "Diablo" enough. Roper discussed the game's...
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Chief of Germany's national police union wants to ban violent games
If the head of Germany's Police Union had his way, violent video games would be banned. The comments from Heini Schmitt, head of the Hessen German Police Union (DPolG), were made following a horrific...
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Gleaning potential controversy from Konami's 'Six Days in Fallujah'
Only a day has passed since the game was announced, but Six Days in Fallujah is already stirring up controversy among veterans, families and peace groups, according to GamePolitics. The game is set...
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Capcom insists RE5 Versus wasn't on the disc
Resident Evil 5 controversy -- much like a zombie -- refuses to die but Capcom says claims of charging gamers for on-disc content are false. Already taking shots for charging for content gamers...
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Soldiers discuss Six Days in Fallujah controversy
While controversies have mounted in the wake of Konami's Six Days in Fallujah reveal, a group of Iraq war veterans told G4TV they have "no problem" with the game. "I believe that this could be a good...
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Report: Konami may skip 'Six Days in Fallujah' Euro launch
The dust has barely settled on the announcement of Six Days in Fallujah, but it once again finds a way into the news. During Konami's Gamer's Day in Frankfurt last week, unnamed representatives for...
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Pirate Bay lawyer seeking retrial
A lawyer representing Peter Sunde, spokesperson for Pirate Bay, said his client will "demand a retrial" amid reports that the preceding judge in the case was a member of several copyright protection...
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