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Audio from yesterday’s video game hearing in Utah is now available… Fast forward the recording to 8:24 where the game bill discussion begins.
New bill sponsor Rep. Scott Wyatt (R) is pictured at left.

You want the inside scoop on yesterday’s video game law hearing in Utah? We’ve got it covered like a blanket here at GamePolitics, including the impressions of a local game developer who attended the hearing.
Although he indicated last week that he would be there, anti-game activist Jack Thompson didn’t make it due to what he […]

Police in the U.K. may soon be tracking down the creators of a computer game designed as an Al Qaeda propaganda tool.
On Monday, GamePolitics reported on Night of Bush Capturing, a crude first-person shooter in which the player targets President George Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair. The widely-covered story even made its way […]

“Hey, U.K., if you don’t want that video game industry, we’ll take it…”
That seems to be the message some Scandinavian officials are sending to their British counterparts. As reported by GameIndustry.biz, Erik Robertson, leader of Nordic Game, a government-funded organization, criticized the British government for not supporting the country’s video game industry.
“I would say that […]

Despite the fact that he will be leaving public office in 90 days, Rep. David Hogue (left) isn’t giving up on video game legislation.
As reported by the Deseret News, the lame-duck Republican is seeking to revive failed video game legislation in the Utah House. His bill, HB257 S01, is of the “games as porn” variety. […]

How long must games be around before they’re considered worthy of historical cultural study?
About 44 years seems like a good number.
The BBC is reporting that the Science Museum in London will be hosting an exhibit next month showcasing the history of video games. The exhibit covers the birth of video gaming on the DEC PDP-1 […]

Tivo Alert - IGDA Head Debates Game Violence Critics
Fire up the Tivo!
Jason Della Rocca, executive of the International Game Developers Association (IGDA) advises that he will appear on MSNBC’s morning news with host Amy Robach (left) this morning.
According to Jason, he’ll be debating in five-minute segments with Blois Olson of the National Institute on Media […]

A California consumer group is using online game technology to protest skyrocketing costs, poor patient service and a cold shoulder from Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R).
Nurse Avenger, offered by the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights, is played in first-person shooter style, allowing players to blast away at health insurance representatives who are drawn to look […]

Increasingly, political candidates are turning to game tech as a campaign tool.
In the latest example, Michigan Republican Mike Bouchard, facing an uphill battle for the U.S. Senate seat held by incumbent Democrat Debbie Stabenow, offers an online game, “Thank you, Debbie”.
The game itself is minimally interactive. To begin, players must click on a a virtual […]

If it’s good enough for Barry Bonds, it’s good enough for me. At least, that’s how some competitive gamers may be approaching their sport.
While the gamer stimulant of choice has traditionally been caffeine, administered via Bawls or various energy drinks, an article at Twitch Guru claims that the prescription drug Ritalin has been gaining in […]

This week’s The Political Game examines the long-term political fallout from presidential hopeful Mark Warner’s recent campaign stop on Second Life.
Will it help position him as a tech-savvy and youthful candidate? Or will political opponents turn his Second Life visit against him? Should politicians dabble in the gaming realm at all?
Check it out…
Speaking of SL, […]

Beyond the shrill, politicized rhetoric heard in some state capitols, where, in 2006, we’ve been treated to such gems as “This video game is not even speech. It is a device” and “yes, games are speech, but worthless, disgusting speech”, a quiet debate has been emerging on a related front.
Can video games be considered art?
Alexa […]

They died by the hundreds.
In June, 1942, SS death squads took bloody reprisals against the Czech village of Lidice for the murder of a Nazi leader by local partisans. Every adult male in the village was killed. Women were shipped to concentration camps. Aryan-looking children were sent to foster homes in Germany; the remainder, to […]

Watchdog group Common Sense Media held its third annual awards program last night at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. Among those honored was Sen. Joe Lieberman (D-CT) for what Common Sense Media termed “outstanding public leadership on issues relating to kids and media.”
Lieberman, of course, is a long-time critic of video game violence as […]

Following the example of France, which last year commemorated video games with a stamp series featuring the likes of Mario, The Sims, Pac-man, and other well-known game characters, the Japanese postal service will issue a series of stamps honoring the 10-year anniversary of BioHazard, better known in the West as the Resident Evil series.
Gibbons Stamp […]

From the Louisiana Governor’s office on down, Jack Thompson has ripped a number of high-level officials in the ugly reality show surrounding the court fight over the state’s video game law. Now the volatile Miami attorney has added a new target.
In a letter sent yesterday to Louisiana Governor Kathleen Babineaux Blanco and Attorney General Charles […]

An apparent avalanche of e-mail from GamePolitics readers caught the attention of a game-bashing editorial writer at the Henderson Daily Dispatch (North Carolina). Here’s what happened:
On Sunday, GP mentioned an editorial in the Dispatch which supported Louisiana’s video game statute and criticized the federal judiciary for continually overturning such laws. The industry, along with ESA […]

The National Institute on Media and the Family has announced a date and location for its long-awaited National Video Game Summit.
The event, promised by NIMF president Dr. David Walsh in the organization’s 2005 Annual Video Game Report Card, will be held October 21-22 at the University of Minnesota’s Continuing Education and Conference Center in Falcon […]

While much of the reaction - at least in the game community - to presidential hopeful Mark Warner’s Second Life visit has been positive, there’s undeniably room to poke fun.
Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank doesn’t miss the chance in a witty piece titled Do You Have a Question, Pixeleen Minstral?. Milbank notes the confusion among […]

Last week, presidential hopeful Mark Warner (D) wowed online gamers in a way that even WoW itself never has.
The former Virginia governor’s ground-breaking visit to the popular MMO Second Life could be the first of many such appearances by politicians. Indeed, Warner himself will make a return trip to SL for a “virtual town hall” […]

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