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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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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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You're in the GameStop, you've got your gun at the ready, you've cleared the cash register area of children, and now you're ready to make your demand. "Give me the money!" Good! Now follow it up with a threat! "...or I'll blast you!" Wait, what? More »
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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. More »
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Irony seems to fail the person who has alleged Chuck E. Cheese's ticket-dispensing games sow gambling addiction in little children, and filed a lawsuit in California seeking a $5 million jackpot. More »
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"It's too real and too much like the Columbine tragedy," says one concerned parent regarding a video shot at Rocklin High School in California depicting students pretending to play Call of Duty with imaginary weapons. Oh come on, really? More »
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Cops say a woman, posing as a 23-year-old over Xbox Live, traveled from California to Maryland over Thanksgiving and had sex with a 13-year-old boy she'd met while his parents were sleeping. She's in jail now. More »
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When the mainstream debate turns to violent video games, it's inevitable that someone will dredge up Postal. It's like the triple dog dare, or comparing someone to Hitler, a completely bogus trump card with no real argumentative value. More »
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That's what parents near Sacramento, Calif., want to know and, you know, I do, too. More »
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Today NASA will hold a press conference revealing to the world the discovery of a form of life unlike any other on Earth. What twisted alien landscape gave birth to such a life form? Try California. More »
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Campaign sign for Jeff Bowser, candidate for the Pleasanton, Calif. School Board, defaced by gamer graffiti. Seen by reader Josh P. More »
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A panel comprised of some of the nation's pre-eminent jurists, legal scholars and court observers pondered California's violent video games statute, which goes before the Supreme Court Nov. 2, and concluded the high court will decide 6-3 for California. More »
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A healthy alternative to Moleskine, captured by Kotakuite Meeko at the South Coast Plaza Mall in Costa Mesa, California. More »
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Yesterday evening saw the filing deadline for supporting briefs in Schwarzenegger vs. Entertainment Merchants Association - the Supreme Court case involving a California statute restricting the sale or rental of violent video game sales. Nine states oppose the law. More »
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Blasting a California statute regulating sales of very violent video games as a threat to the freedom of creative expression, the Entertainment Software Association today asked the U.S. Supreme Court to strike down the law, once and for all. More »
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A married mom of three discovered the surest way into a 15-year-old's pants is with video games. After lavishing two teens with consoles and gifts and getting sex over two years, Stacy's mom now has it going on behind bars. More »
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Nintendo is rolling out the Wii Fit Plus Experience at select Target store parking lots in California, Georgia, and Texas over the next three weeks, with a $15 gift card for those willing to get their exercise on in public. More »
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If you are 21 and older and going to be in the San Francisco area on Monday October 12th, then Capcom might want you to do something regarding Dark Void - they just won't say what. More »
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The fun-killing neighborhood scolds at the Eagle Forum filed a brief [pdf] supporting California's violent video game law, and invoke the 1982 death of a Berzerk player as evidence that games even cause physical harm. More »
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While the argument over video games as art rages on, there can be no denying that games have influenced art, as evidenced by the WoW: Emergent Media Phenomenon at the Laguna Art Museum in California. More »
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Calling California's violent video games law "an embarrassment," the L.A. Times says the state shouldn't create another by appealing its overturning to the U.S. Supreme Court. More »
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Wednesday sees the return of our old friend Leland Yee as he and California Governor T-101 attempt once again to get their violent video game law passed, this time in the Federal Court of Appeals. The law, which was shot down last year in federal court for being unconstitutional, sought to prevent children from purchasing games that contained "especially heinous, cruel or depraved" violence, putting in place $1,000 fines for retailers who sold such titles to minors. In preparation for this Wednesday's appeal, Senator Yee practiced his spiel. More »
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The Entertainment Software Association would like to remind the citizens of the United States that letting their politicians run around pursuing unconstitutional video game laws is a very costly affair. Just as they did with Minnesota, Illinois, and Michigan before, the ESA has issued a press release detailing just how much California's failed game law is costing the taxpayers. $282,794 to be exact, and as the ESA points out, this is at a time when CA is facing a $15 million billion budget gap, firing 10,000 state employees and seeking to cut wages for the rest. More »
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You may know California Senator Leland Yee (D-San Francisco/San Mateo) as one of the most ardent critics in politics of violence in video games. A bill he authored intended to legislate the sale of violent video games in his state was recently ruled unconstitutional in federal court, and Yee, along with Gov. Schwarzenegger, are currently appealing the decision. He also urged the FTC to investigate the ESRB in the wake of the Manhunt 2 ratings controversy, and regularly speaks out against video games he believes are "ultra-violent." More »
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The folks behind I am 8-Bit, the art show featuring works based on video games, is holding an event this Saturday in Alhambra, CA. On hand will be Double Fine Productions' art director Scott C. who will be personally be autographing prints of his alternate DVD cover for the documentary, King of Kong: Fist Full of Quarters. The print is a nice sized 18 x 24 inches and will sell for a paltry $20. It's a pretty cool piece and having the autograph of someone who worked on Psychonauts would be pretty freaking sweet. You can go get your signed copy of the dvd and or print at Gallery Nucleus, 210 East Main Street Alhambra, CA. The event will go from 7 - 11pm and will feature such exciting extras as free booze and a Donkey Kong high score tournament with prizes. More »
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In-game advertising, we all LOVE it, but one California assemblywoman named Lori Saldana may just introduce legislation, limiting our pure, childlike enjoyment of being forcefed commercials while playing the $50 game we just paid for. More »
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Hal Halpin, president of the IEMA, sent out an email response to Judge White's ruling today freezing the California Vide Game Law. More »
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A California judge has slapped the state's video game law with a preliminary injunction, halting its implementation. More »
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Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has 72 hours to decide what to do with the game law his state's legislation passed according to the watchful eyes at Game Politics. The three options the Govenator has are signing the law, vetoing the law or ignoring the law. If Ahnuld ignores the bill, it becomes law Jan. 1. Tick-tock, Schwarzenegger's on the clock. More »
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