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John Callaham of Firing Squad has scored an interview with Jayne Hitchcock, the online safety expert who decided to give Bully a wedgie yesterday. Among Hitchcock’s comments:
“…bullying is so prevalent today and is a real life problem that many kids and teens face. Some victims of bullies have committed suicide and I would hate to […]

Yesterday, GamePolitics reported on Minnesota Attorney General Mike Hatch’s plans to appeal a July federal court decision which ruled that the state’s “fine the buyer” video game law was unconstitutional.
Hatch, of course, riled gamers earlier in June with language in a court filing which described some games as “worthless, disgusting speech” and “speech of very […]

Jack Thompson’s Louisiana video game law was supposedly written as to be immune from constitutional challenges.
But it’s not looking that way this morning.
Last evening Federal District Court Judge James Brady ruled in favor of the video game industry’s request for a preliminary injunction to keep the law from taking effect. Granting the preliminary injunction indicates […]

GamePolitics has confirmed that the Peaceoholics, a Washington, D.C.-based community group, will stage a protest demonstration outside the Lower Manhattan offices of Take-Two Interactive later today.
Ronald Moten, co-founder and chief operating officer of the Peaceoholics, confirmed to GamePolitics last night that group members would board buses this morning for the trip to the Big Apple. […]

Stories like this warm GP’s cynical heart…
Out of Stanford comes word that the PlayStation 3 will be powerful enough to participate in the university’s Folding@Home distributed processing project.
FAH, which targets the study of protein folding and protein folding diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Type-2 diabetes, has been ongoing since 2000. Thus far, the project has […]

It’s the most-vilified game that no one has ever seen.We’re talking about Bully, of course, Rockstar’s controversial title scheduled for October 17th release. As we edge closer to the game’s launch, Rockstar is beginning to pull the curtain back a bit.A new Bully trailer showed up on YouTube yesterday and logged over 300,000 viewings.
The brand-new […]

Controversial Miami attorney Jack Thompson has indicated that there will be a demonstration, apparently against the upcoming release of Bully, this Friday outside Take-Two Interactive’s Manhattan HQ.
According to a terse e-mail from the activist lawyer, the protest will be staged by “ a group of children protesting Take-Two’s targeting of kids with their adult entertainment.”
Thompson, […]

While some elected officials do battle with the video game industry, a key government research organization has established a presence in a popular online RPG.
As detailed by the Second Life Insider, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has set up shop within the popular MMO Second Life. The NOAA studies things like climate, weather […]

Pity the poor zombie.
The living dead just can’t seem to get much love these days, at least not on the international scene.
Capcom’s newly-released Dead Rising was refused classification - effectively banned - in Germany. And, according to various reports will likely be censored in Japan as well.
Those plucky Brits, however, seem to have no fear […]

As of today, a new Louisiana law goes into effect making it illegal to distribute sexually explicit video games to minors.
While in theory that is a good thing, the reality is that there aren’t any sexually-explicit games available, at least none distributed by the game publishers and retailers generally thought of as the “video game […]

Like many gamers, controversial Miami attorney Jack Thompson would like a sneak peek at Bully.
Thompson’s interest in the much-discussed game however, is hardly that of a fan.
In a lengthy, rambling suit filed today with the Miami-Dade Circuit Court, Thompson has demanded that publisher Take-Two Interactive supply him with a copy of Bully “so that its […]

While everyone seems to be buzzing about Bully of late, at least one respected financial analyst thinks sales of the game won’t match the hype. Bully is scheduled for October release on the PS2.
Michael Pachter, who covers the video game industry for Wedbush Morgan, told Red Herring, “I think it sounds like a dopey game. […]

The video game industry continues to forge political bonds.
Today, Georgia State Attorney General Thurbert Baker (left) announced that his office was partnering with the ESRB on a public service announcement (PSA) campaign designed to help parents make better use of ratings when selecting video games for their kids. The campaign will run on both T.V. […]

This is pretty awesome, something we could never do on LJ…

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Will we be talking about Bully every day between now and its October 17th launch?
Seems like it.
There’s a trailer now available for the game. The short video clip seems to depict a story with a fairly complex plot and some interesting characters.
Oh, and wedgies.
GP: Thanks to reader Matt Parsons for shooting us the video link!

 The critics, it seems, are lining up to rip Rockstar’s upcoming Bully. GamePolitics has reported on several over the last week.
But a free speech advocate sees the game in a different light. In an interview with Rocky Mountain News reporter Brian Crecente (you may know him better as editor of Kotaku), Joan Bertin (left), executive […]

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