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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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

“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 […]

The strange, contentious situation surrounding the legal defense of Louisiana’s video game law has gotten even stranger and more contentious.
Yesterday, Miami attorney Jack Thompson (left) forwarded to GamePolitics a pair of e-mails. The first was from Deputy Louisiana Attorney General Burton Guidry to Thompson, sent late Wednesday afternoon:
“Ok Mr. Thompson, put up or shut up. […]

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 […]

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. […]

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, […]

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 […]

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