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Feds Pursuing Guilty Pleas in Last Summer's Controversial Mod Chip Raids
August 1, 2007 is a date that 32 American families are not likely to forget.
On that Wednesday, more than 100 federal agents from the U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) service, a division of the Department of Homeland Security, executed search warrants on 32 homes in 16 states. The ICE agents, who were seeking mod chips for console systems, were acting in concert with employees of the Entertainment Software Association (ESA), the trade association operated by US video game publishers.
ECA's Hal Halpin Dishes on Politicians & More in The Escapist
Hal Halpin, president of the Entertainment Consumers Association (ECA), pens a guest column for The Escapist today.
Nintendo, Sega, Ubisoft, EA Back PEGI in UK Game Rating Battle
A quartet of leading publishers have come out in favor of the Pan-European Game Information (PEGI) rating system for the UK market.
Dark Sector Gets Un-banned in Australia
As GamePolitics reported earlier this year, Dark Sector, developed by Digital Extremes and published by D3Publisher, was refused classification by Australian censors over violence concerns.
Wall-E is First-ever Arab Localized Game
Middle-East website Al Bawaba reports that Disney Pixar's Wall-E will be the first Arab localized video game.
Connecticut Attorney General: ESRB Under the Influence Regarding Alcohol Use in Games
Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal (D) charged today that the ESRB is "under the influence" when it comes to depictions of alcohol use in video games.
Nintendo Faces Patent Lawsuit, Apparently Over DS Touch Screen
Nintendo, which recently lost a $21 million patent case to Anascape, is currently litigating another federal patent lawsuit filed by an Illinois man.
BBFC vs. PEGI Ratings Tiff Rages on in UK
As the British government begins to take action based on the Tanya Byron Review, game content ratings are increasingly under the spotlight.
E3 WILL Have Plenty of PC Games Says Scribe
Yesterday GamePolitics linked Dean Takahashi's VentureBeat piece predicting that PC games would be noticably sparse at next week's E3 in Los Angeles.
Mortal Kombat Parody: Barack Obama vs. Fox News & the "Terrorist Fist Jab"
A fist bump?
A pound?
A terrorist fist jab?
With those words, Fox News talking head E.D. Hill ignited a bit of a controversy last month. Hill was referring to a small, celebratory bumping of fists between Barack and Michelle Obama. The "terrorist fist jab" comment would eventually lead to an on-air apology from Hill.
PC Games M.I.A. at E3
PC gamers should not expect much in the way of news from next week's Electronic Entertainment Expo, according to Dean Takahashi on VentureBeat.
911 Call Describes Killing Over Stolen Xbox 360
WHIO-TV in Dayton, Ohio has posted a video which includes portions of a 911 call in which a man reports that his roommate shot a man who was stealing his Xbox 360 and then hid his body in the basement.
Report: Console Sales in Slo-Mo
Sales of new console systems have slowed, according to a report in the San Jose Mercury-News.
