Post Tagged with: "politics"

Violent Video Game Tax? Another Great Idea From the Political Establishment!

William Fourkiller, hero of the people, has decided taxing something he doesn’t understand makes way more sense than going after those poor…

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Harmonix Head is Americans for a Better Tomorrow Tomorrow’s Sugar Daddy

I really hate politics. At least, I hate the way politics actually work here.

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Capitol Hill “Family Game Night” is One Step Forward

Microsoft’s “Get Game Smart” is holding a Family Game Night with congressional representatives on Capitol Hill. Spoiler Alert: I go off on a political tangent again.

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UK Emergency Budget: No Tax Breaks for UK Games Industry

The “Emergency” Budget has been issued by the UK Chancellor, and it has been revealed that there will be no tax breaks for developers in the UK.

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UK Games Association Hoping New Culture Minister Will Implement Tax Relief

With the new UK government comes a new Minister for Culture, Ed Vaizey- who TIGA, the trade association representing the UK games industry, hope will implement plans for tax relief for game developers in the UK.

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New York Attorney Taking Action Over Videogame-Induced Seizures

An attorney in Syracuse, New York is representing a four-year-old boy who suffered a seizure watching his brother play a videogame. The attorney is asking other victims to come forward to presumably set up a class action lawsuit.

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Massachusetts Governor Brags About Guitar Hero

I jump with joy any time that video games are brought up in a good light, and this is no exception. Deval Patrick, the Governor of Massachusetts, lobbied game publishers to relocate to his state in an effort to help his state’s economy. Now he’s brought the subject up again, this time bragging about it.

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Inside Every Gamer, There’s a Little Fanboy

Liberal. Conservative. Fanboy. These words have taken on new meanings in the age of internet and anonymous hate-spamming. And, just like pundits and politicos, gamers have their preferred warhorse. But when you show your support for a system you instantly become “fanboy,” and are likely to get a face full of flamer comments within minutes. [...]

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Obama Billboards Appear In Burnout Paradise

In a move that’s well beyond any lame Second Life appearances, the Obama campaign has bought ad space in Paradise City. EA confirmed the ad buy to website Gigaom today– check out their statement after the jump.

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Master Chief is a Political Liability

The lexicon of American politics includes many derogatory terms: carpetbagger, hatchet man, or flip-flopper. Now we can add “Halo player” to the list. In the Maricopa County District 1 Supervisor race in Arizona, incumbent Republican Fulton Brock is slamming Democratic challenger Ed Hermes in his campaign literature as a “Halo gamer.”

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Warning: Politicians May Be Abusing Their Powers to Make Gaming… Better?

This story starts with a young boy and a subscription to the MMO Final Fantasy XI. After a few months with the game, he grows tired of it and decides he’s going to cancel. Great, so how do you do that? What seems like should be a simple task ends up an exercise in frustration. [...]

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PC Review: The Political Machine 2008

It’s been 17 months since Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton started to duke it out for the Democratic nomination, less than a month since the winner of that contest was settled, and four score and seven years since John McCain graduated from flight school, after learning how to ride a pterodactyl. It’s easy to get [...]

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