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Sex, Lies And Videogames
Talkback George: No-one has said the game would not be considered immoral if it contained ONLY police officers being shot. Where did you get this from apart from your prejudice? It was already given a "mature" rating for that very reason and was always...
[September 1, 2005, 12:43]
Sex, Lies And Videogames
Talkback The rating was probably increased because it now contains sex AND violence as opposed to just violence. But, in my opinion, the violence of itself should have led to an 18+ (adult) rating anyway. I imagine there are many people that think sex...
[September 1, 2005, 12:20]
Sex, Lies And Videogames
Talkback Well, let me see if got it. If the game ONLY showed police officers being killed, it would not be imoral. Since it also shows sex scenes than it showld never been done. To me it's quite weird such measure of morality.
[August 28, 2005, 19:57]
Sex, Lies And Videogames
News The video game industry found itself embroiled in another controversy earlier this summer that invited denunciations of excess and calls for a government inquiry. The ruckus broke out after the public learned that top-selling video game "Grand...
[August 23, 2005, 15:00]
Hackers Release Xbox Tool Despite Microsoft Threats
News We do need to inform yourself and this.contact that Microsoft Xbox takes pirating of videogames very seriously," a Microsoft spokeswoman told ZDNet Australia by email. The protection of our intellectual properties and copyrights, and those of our...
[July 4, 2003, 9:00]
SpaceStationSim
Downloads SpaceStationSim, from Vision Videogames in collaboration with NASA, gets you up close and personal with your own crew of astronauts who live and play in outer space. Build your own international space station with loads of modules and cool components.
[February 9, 2006, 5:46]
New Kazaa Beta Aims To Cut Bandwidth Costs
News It is encouraging to see content such as videogames, that can be up to 100 times larger and cost 30 times more than a single music file, being purchased by Kazaa users," she was quoted as saying in the statement.
[October 30, 2003, 10:35]
Accessing My ZDNet Account
Blog Comment The company also suggests to anyone interested in the videogames industry, for development or from the business angle, that they study a 116 page pdf from Igda - The International Game Developers Association Which is www.igda.org/casual and the...
[June 13, 2007, 22:02]
Ultimate Guide To Defensive Domination
Downloads Learn how to dominate defensively in your favorite football sim game like Madden NFL, NCAA Football, NFL Head Coach and all football sim videogames. Get a better understanding of defensive philosophies and techniques that will help you gain control...
[August 13, 2006, 9:01]
Wednesday
Blog Wednesday 5/3/2003A long time ago, a much younger Goodwins made a bit of pocket money in the school holidays by repairing fruit machines and pub videogames. He did this in a huge old garage on the edge of Dartmoor, as part of an operation run by a...
[March 7, 2003, 14:37]
Gaming Is More Than Child's Play
Leader St Paul's theology has been influential, but he had nothing to say about videogames. When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things1 Corinthians 13:1
[January 27, 2006, 14:10]
Making Sense Of SOA Is No Game
Leader The idea that videogames are a good way to present business functions isn't new. IBM is proud of Innov8, its zeitgeist-flavoured service-oriented architecture training tool. A three-dimensional virtual environment, it leads players by the pixelated...
[May 23, 2007, 18:07]
Friday
Blog And what would better befit a company at the cutting edge of home and corporate technology than a big collection of videogames -- Xbox, motorcycle and car driving arcade cabinets dotted around the place among other entertainments.
[December 6, 2002, 16:20]
Eve - 3D Network Surveillance
Downloads In much the same way as modern FPS (First Person Shooter) videogames do, the user can move through and around the 3D environment using their mouse and keyboard, to inspect network activity. Eve is the first real-time network monitor capable of...
[May 24, 2007, 11:01]
Sludge Crawler Demo
Downloads You were forced to stop playing videogames and were sent out of your home on a mission. What happens if you are computer science student at Stony Brook, you're a serious fan of old NES and Genesis sidescrollers, you have a somewhat twisted sense of...
[November 21, 2006, 7:01]
US Exports DMCA In Trade Treaty
News One chapter of the complex agreement closely mirrors the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), affirming both nations' commitment to punishing people who bypass copy-protection technologies -- such as those used in most DVDs, a relatively small...
[July 16, 2003, 14:12]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog She said that as the videogames industry was commercially more important to the UK as the film industry, and there were so many similarities, it could be argued that it should get the same sort of tax breaks.
[January 31, 2002, 14:30]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Thumb Candy", a Channel 4 programme about the history of videogames transmitted at the weekend, looked at the American, British and Japanese contributions to the field. Monday 02/04/2001 Recovered from the annual April 1st prankfest yet?
[April 8, 2001, 22:20]
Atari Games Built Into Mobile Device
News The nostalgic appeal of classic videogames has proved enduring, even as console technology has grown powerful enough to render photorealistic 3D images. For video-gaming enthusiasts who don't wish to shell out hundreds of pounds for the latest...
[May 15, 2002, 14:04]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog I used to review videogames for newspapers, until I realised that if the gaming companies couldn't be bothered to come up with any new ideas to play then I couldn't be bothered to find new things to say.
[April 15, 2005, 19:30]
