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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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” […]

Despite recent bad press over Reservoir Dogs and Bully - or should we say Canis Canem Edit - a British politician has given assurances that the government there stands behind the U.K. game industry.
As reported by GamesIndustry.biz, Shaun Woodward, Minister for Creative Industries and Tourism, said, “I think it’s terribly important that one or two […]

“Joe will still be Joe.”
Thus says Hal Halpin, former president of the IEMA, speaking about Sen. Joe Lieberman (D-CT). The incumbent, a longtime critic of the video game industry, lost a recent, bitter primary fight to political upstart Ned Lamont.
Halpin, a favorite of GamePolitics readers for his straight talk and willingness to answer questions from […]

When a presidential contender makes an appearance inside an MMO, it shows just how mainstream games have become.
Later today, former Virginia Gov. Mark Warner (D) will become the first U.S. politician to create a character - publicly at least - in the popular MMO, Second Life.
The ex-Guv, who is expected to make a strong run […]

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. […]

 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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