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US President Donald Trump’s attacks on TikTok escalated wildly today, after he signed an Executive Order that not…
Jul 1
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Players of kId-friendly creative place space are discovering their accounts have become inadvertently political, as…
Mar 18
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During today’s White House press conference the Trump administration’s Coronavirus Task Force response coordinator,…
Aug 13
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A 10 percent tax on video game consoles and other consumer electronics has been delayed until December 15, the…
Aug 5 2019
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We have reached the point in American society where you can reliably predict the series of events that immediately…
Jul 1 2019
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The Trump administration announced over the weekend it would delay $300 billion in new tariffs on Chinese imports, including video game consoles, following a tentative agreement reached with China’s President at the G20 Summit. Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo came out against the new tariffs in a joint letter earlier…
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Jun 26 2019
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Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo have joined forces to tell the U.S. government that its newly-proposed tariffs on…
May 24 2019
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Yesterday, prolific tweeters Brian and Ed Krassenstein were banned for life from the platform for allegedly…
May 9 2018
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Robert Mueller’s investigation of U.S. President Donald Trump has taken all sorts of strange turns over the past…
Mar 7 2018
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On Thursday, March 8, the White House will hold a meeting with members of the video game industry to talk about gun…
Mar 5 2018
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The White House has finally sent out invitations to the video game industry for a meeting on Thursday, and the ESA says it will attend. “Video games are plainly not the issue: entertainment is distributed and consumed globally, but the US has an exponentially higher level of gun violence than any other nation,” said a… Read more
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Mar 1 2018
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The White House today said that President Donald Trump will meet with executives from the video game industry to…
Feb 22 2018
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Today during a meeting on school safety at the White House, U.S. President Donald Trump suggested that violent video…
Jan 31 2018
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Prior to last night’s State of the Union speech, Donald Trump’s re-election campaign contacted the President’s…
Feb 9 2017
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In a chat with the press in Seattle earlier today, Valve boss Gabe Newell spoke about the effects President Trump’s (…
Jan 29 2017
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The company behind mobile games Dots, Two Dots, and Dots & Co doesn’t usually speak directly to its players about…
Jan 22 2017
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Yesterday evening, Sean Spicer took to the press briefing room to criticize the media for how it had emphasized the…
Jan 21 2017
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Punching Nazis is something of a time honored tradition in the United States. So is making memes. It seems natural…
Jan 20 2017
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Donald Trump’s inauguration as the 45th president of the United States was an appropriately staid and stately…
Nov 4 2016
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Yesterday, the New York Times released The Voter Suppression Trail. The politically-charged Oregon Trail-inspired…