The iOS games studio Mobigame - best known for titles like Edge and Perfect Cell - has teamed up with Amnesty…

Sex slavery, human trafficking, detention camps: The next big Facebook game forgoes farming and city building to…
Israeli settlers on the West Bank have discovered a new way of getting their message across: Violent shoot 'em ups…
On Thursday, this guy, the current governor of Kanagawa prefecture in Japan, wagged his finger at violent video…
A public servant working for an Australian politician has asked for "extended internet access" on her work computer.…
Now seems as good a time as any to rid the planet of Libyan dictator Colonel Gaddafi. Especially when you get to…
Germany's government has a rather sensitive relationship with video games. Reports of official censorship often…
Monica Potts a feminist graduate of an all-girls college that would never take her husband's name or dream of…
Poor David Morrill. All he ever wanted to do was sell an Xbox 360 that had, inexplicably, Sarah Palin's autograph…
Panamanian politician Alcibiades Vasquez Velasquez is a man on a mission. A mission to save the children of Panama…
"Game Over". It's a term synonymous with video games, yet right now in Egypt, it's also a rallying cry for mass…

Last night President Obama delivered the State of the Union. Written for posterity, perhaps, it's still a policy…
In 2009 California congressman Joe Baca introduced legislation that would require games to display a label…
The US Secret Service, in a throwback to the 20th century, currently train using tabletop simulations. Realising…
This Angry Birds thing goes all the way to the White House. Former U.S. vice president Dick Cheney reveals he's…
People might want the Alaska politician-cum-celebrity's autograph, but maybe just not on an Xbox 360 for a million…
Cars. Television. Game consoles. For years, these were what Japan was known for abroad. But that's not all.
Sion Lenton, a developer who worked on the latest Operation: Flashpoint game, gives us a "food for thought" moment…

I've been a long-time advocate of somebody making a war game that plays like an actual war: one where you fight in re…
The whole drama surrounding whistle-blower organisation WikiLeaks has made for the juiciest political story in…