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Okay, I admit it: I have a strong tendency to assign to blame for every gaming- related crime I hear about to Grand Theft Auto. I don’t know why, I just do. Thankfully, though, this one doesn’t seem to have a GTA connection, just a Lame Pathetic Crook connection. The guy walks into a video [...]

We here at the ol’ Gaming Technology Blog really love keeping tabs on the continuing tit for tat, give and take, mano a mano dialogue between people who think video games are bad, evil, unwholesome corruptions sent by the devil, and people who use their brains. Example of people who use their brains? These psychologists [...]

What They Play, a parents’ guide to video games, conducted two separate studies asking parents about things their kids did that they as parents found objectionable. Around 3,000 parents responded by ranking video games a “more objectionable” activity than watching porn or drinking beer. They also ranked violence in video games as more objectionable than [...]

With a game like Grand Theft Auto, you’re bound to get an “I told you so” from some crime-obsessed, watching-out-for-the-kids type media watchdog, somewhere along the line. And we certainly didn’t have to wait. This week a Thai teenager knifed a 54-year old taxi dead, in part, according to the youth, to find out whether [...]

So the idea was to find and collect letter shapes formed by the corpses of Elites and Spartans (those are playable characters from the game). What they got was a full alphabet, including numbers and even a few punctuation marks! Take a gander at this monumental achievement by clicking on this link.

Anthony Puzo, son of the late Mario Puzo, is suing Paramount Pictures for at least $1M for breach of contract, after the studio allegedly failed to turn over revenues from the video game adaptation of Mario Puzo’s novel “The Godfather”. Paramount licensed game published Electronic Arts to turn the original 1972 film into a video [...]

A recent study by an Australian Psychology graduate suggests that gaming addicts, for all their shortcomings, are not the antisocial nerds we tend to make them out to be. Of the 621 adult respondents to the study, 15% calimed to spend more that 50 hours a week playing video games, but only 1 percent exhibited [...]

Sandra Day O’Connor, 78, USA’s first female Supreme Court Justice, wants kids to stop playing video games and start learning about their Judiciary system. How? By playing video games, of course. In particular, she’d like kids to start playing Our Courts, the video game she’s helping to create, which is aimed specifically to help kids [...]

Don’t click on the image above! The link to the actual video is at the end of this post. This Youtube vid-slash-flash-lecture is by a certain Daniel Floyd, who works at the Savannah College of Art and Design. In it he explores the oft-discussed relationship between video games and sex. You can watch the clip [...]

Not many gamers are aware just how much they owe this man, Ken Kutaragi. “Father of Playstation” as he is also known in Japan, Kutaragi was responsible for bringing cd-rom-based gaming to the world, changing the face of the gaming industry and leading Sony to the top of the gaming industry. But all that changed [...]

FIle this one under “Only in Japan…” A Toyama-based pharmecutical company has developed a line of vitamin supplement targeted specifically at the gaming community, and long-haul gamers in particular. These “Game Suppli”capsules are taken twice a day and reatil for about 880 yen for a pack of 30 capsules. There are currently two varieties: a [...]

This modder named Ben Heckendorn (a.k.a. ‘Heck’) took apart a Sony Playstation 3, took the bits and used them to make a working, portable PS3 laptop, pictured above. Pretty cool, no? Features: 60GB PS3 17″ HDTV 720p screen with HDMI connection built-in keyboard stereo amplifier weight: 7.26kg dimensions: 431.8mm x 349.3mm x 76.2mm The unit [...]

Newsweek’s videogame pundit N’gai Croal had a nice thoughtpiece on on parents, kids’ gaming, ratings and Grand Theft Auto 4. Not being a parent himself, Croal just forwards concerned parents (“Should I let my kids play GT4?”) to websites like whattheyplay.com, which, instead of telling parents whether or not to let their kids play the [...]

So according to Blizzard Entertainment, the number of its Chinese concurrent users for the massively mulitplayer role-playing game World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusades have passed the one milion mark–the highest ever rate since they launched the game there in 2005. Be prepared for a tidal wave of web-jokes about everyone in China doing something [...]

Edward Norton, Liv Tyler and William Hurt are set to star in the second Hollywood movie based on the Marvel comic character The Incredible Hulk. But the big gaming news here is, they’re also starring in the video game. All of them. No gaming console info or release dates as of yet from game developer [...]

Not that he’s a gamer. Not that he even likes video games. But when the horrormeister learned of a bill in Massachusetts state seeking to ban violent video game sales to kids under the age of 18, his eyes went white and his head started spinning around and… oh wait that wasn’t his. via Yahoo [...]