Review Round-Up: Yakuza Greed, Street Fighter Max [List]

With the use of some red ink and some blue ink, we reviewed some video games this week. Links to the results are below. How’d we do? More

The Many (Faceless) Faces Of Video Games [Art]

Last year, Briton Ashley Browning gave the world a great set of minimalist video game character faces. Now, Justin Russo gives us minimalist video game…chests. More

Shocking Study Finds Video Games Interfere With Schoolwork [Survey Says]

Direct from the We Could Have Told You That department, a recent study determined that introducing young boys to video games has a direct effect on their academic performance. Introducing a major distraction interferes with learning? Who’d have thought? More

Shocking Study Finds Video Games Interfere With Schoolwork [Survey Says]

Direct from the We Could Have Told You That department, a recent study determined that introducing young boys to video games has a direct effect on their academic performance. Introducing a major distraction interferes with learning? Who’d have thought? More

When Gun Nuts Meet Video Games [Guns]

Firearms enthusiasts. Hardcore video gamers. They sound like two completely different groups of people, but both have one thing in common: everyone else thinks they’re crazy. More

How Video Games Taught Me Everything About Capitalism [Money]

You collect coins. You then use those coins to get extra lives or buy things. Get used to it, because that’s the way the world works. More

Brilliant Five-Word Reviews of 94 Video Games [Brevity]

Haiku is so overdone, and would be verbose compared to these spot-on assessments of nearly 100 video games, done in just five words by Games Radar. Some rate a spoiler alert. More

Thinking, Not Always Joking, About What Video Games Can Be [Gdc]

Our guy in Tokyo has descended upon San Francisco’s Game Developers Conference. We asked him for a report. This is what we got. More

Violent Video Games Now Getting You 3-5 Years In A Venezuelan Prison [Only In Venezuela]

Venezuela’s new anti-violent video game law just recently went into effect, an opportunity for those who import or sell violent video games (and toys) a chance to pay a hefty fine and spend three-to-five years in prison. Gamesthirst and La Gaceta help the potentially violent video gamer better understand Ley para la Prohibición de Videojuegos Bélicos y Juguetes Bélicos, Venezuela’s anti-violent game legislation that was proposed last summer and went into effect earlier this month. Basically, the law says that those who “import, manufacture, sell, rent, or distribute violent toys or video games”—games with “information or images that promote or incite violence and the use of weapons”—can land them in prison for up to five years. Those guilty of promoting such games carry a fine “between 2,000 and 4,000 tax units.” Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez must be pretty excited to get this ” poison ” out of the hands of his people, particularly Mercernaries 2: World in Flames, which didn’t sit too well with government officials. Venezuelan Gamers Could Face 3-5 Years In Prison For Importing “Violent Videogames” [Gamesthirst]

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GDC: Day Zero [Note]

To: Ash From: Crecente Re: I AM NOT DEAD…YET! Myself, Mike McWhertor and Stephen Totilo are all flying out to San Francisco tomorrow to start our GDC coverage. It will be fantastic, informative and, I hope, entertaining. The schedule is packed from breakfast to midnight snacks with interviews, gameplay sessions, hands-ons, lectures and parties. I’m still not sure if there will be any HUGE news coming out of the show, but I think it will be one that people should keep an eye on. And don’t forget, it’s on Saturday too and we’re all sticking around till the bitter, bitter end. Now, show me your gaming roots! What you missed: The Never-Ending Game: World of Warcraft’s Impact on Borderlands God of War III Review: Olympic Glory How to Use Psychological Warfare To Win at Video Games My Trash-80 Powered Gaming Roots Left 4 Dead 2, Team Fortress 2, Portal and Steam Coming to Mac in April Three-Year-Old Kills Herself With Game Controller-Shaped Gun Violent Video Games Now Getting You 3-5 Years In A Venezuelan Prison I Was An Xbox Live Celebrity, For One Night Only Why Modern Video Game Armies Lack Female Troops

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GDC: Day Zero [Note]

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