videogames

Lights, camera, videogames!

News And that's where videogames and films can blend together, he continued. It also directly helps in making videogames. Now, says one Academy Award-winning producer, the lines between the two media are ready to break down, perhaps permanently.

8 September 2006, 10:31 > More matches in News

News.blog: Videogames don't breed violent kids

News Two Harvard researchers have concluded that there's no data to support the notion that violent videogames cause the kids who play them to act out violence in real life, contrary to the vast majority of media outlets that would have the public...

Tags: children, kids, theft, videogames

13 May 2008, 8:54 > More matches in News

Space Bubble Episode 8: The history of music videogames

Crave We're also taking a dance back through the history of music videogames, and casting the idea of convoluted product names out of the airlock into the eternal solitude of space. Greetings Bubblenauts! It's that time of the week again.

10 July 2007, 16:12 > More matches in Crave

Conservatives target videogames

News David Cameron, Leader of the Opposition, believes that the producers of videogames, movies and music videos, along with hardware manufacturers and ratings body the British Board of Film Classification, need to be more responsible.

30 August 2007, 8:41 > More matches in News

Videogames that stick it to 'The Man'

News Even worse, they say, are 'advergames', which are videogames developed by companies to promote products. There's lots of precedent for this sort of speech in print, in film and on the Web, but we think videogames are particularly good at exposing...

6 February 2006, 10:07 > More matches in News

Why women don't like videogames

News It's not that women don't understand videogames, it's that videogames don't understand women. Most videogames, Ray argues, are like bad boyfriends -- they're too involved with their own male sexuality to even try to crack the female sexual code.

12 June 2006, 10:17 > More matches in News

US senators target 'graphic' videogames

News A new front in the political wars over sex and violence in videogames opened on Tuesday when US Senators Hillary Clinton and Joseph Lieberman called for a new crackdown on the industry by the federal government.

30 November 2005, 7:47 > More matches in News

Nielsen to provide ratings for videogames

News Nielsen Media Research, famed for its influential US television ratings, has announced that it will begin providing ratings for videogames. The new system will use patented technology to monitor the goings-on of videogame consoles -- including next...

19 October 2006, 9:20 > More matches in News

Pope condemns violent videogames

News Any trend to produce programmes and products -- including animated films and videogames -- which in the name of entertainment exalt violence and portray antisocial behavior or the trivialisation of human sexuality is a perversion, all the more...

25 January 2007, 7:27 > More matches in News

Attention deficit disorder? Play videogames

News When her 11-year-old son was diagnosed with attention deficit disorder last year, Janet Herlihey warmed up to an unlikely solution for his problem: videogames. The Cyberlearning system offers a notable counterpoint to the common perception of...

9 November 2005, 9:51 > More matches in News

'Cinema-style' ratings to classify videogames?

News Videogames have not had an easy ride in the mainstream press of late, and this weekend was no exception. As the legal battle over the release -- or not -- of Manhunt 2 in the UK continues, The Guardian newspaper on Saturday claimed that the...

Tags: released, government, body, british

12 February 2008, 8:44 > More matches in News

News.blog: Videogames as a spectator sport?

News During the pre-match warm-up, both teams didn't seem to be anything more than boys playing videogames: laughing, joking and punching one another in the shoulder. There's no doubt about it: this is a sport.

11 December 2006, 9:44 > More matches in News

Adult-oriented videogames prospering

News Indeed, the GTA scenes were just the highly publicised tip of the adult-oriented videogames iceberg. It woke up millions of people to the fact that there is sexual content in videogames and that they should pay attention to the ratings [given to...

3 October 2005, 10:34 > More matches in News

Schools look to learning powers of videogames

News Three UK secondary schools are piloting the use of computer games in the classroom. The research project, dubbed 'Teaching with Games', which is to begin in September, will explore whether consumer computer games, such as Medal of Honor, are...

11 August 2005, 9:29 > More matches in News

Teachers want videogames in class

News Good news for truancy officers. There may soon be fewer pupils bunking off as teachers in the UK have given their backing to a scheme that intends to bring computer games into the classroom. While many will clearly write it off as the latest fad, a...

16 January 2006, 8:39 > More matches in News