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Archive for January 13th, 2009

Amazon’s Dealing Games All Day Monday [Cheapskates]

Frugal gamers, keep an eye on Amazon Monday. The mega-retailer is offering a day full of Gold Box video game deals — probably to clear holiday stock, but there might be something you want. Cheap.

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Stop Motion Street Fighter [Street Fighter]

What do you get with one borked SNES and two bored geeks? Stop-motion Street Fighter action figure battles. Fight!

Jacob Karsemeyer of Pushing Play sent this along. He and classmate Sam Klass filmed it

BREAKING: Judge Rejects Video Game Murder Defense for Halo 3 Teen

Despite his lawyer’s claim that a supposed addiction to Halo 3 turned Daniel Petric into a killer, an Ohio judge has found the 17-year-old guilty in the 2007 slaying of his mother and wounding of his

New Bill in Congress Would Add Cigarette-like Warning Labels to Video Games

A California Congressman with a long history of targeting video games for legislation is at it again.

Last week Rep. Joe Baca (D) introduced H.R. 231, a bill which would require that warning labels be

State Department Official Meets with Egyptian Students in Second Life

New World Notes reports that State Depatment official James Glassman (in avatar form at left) will hold a virtual meeting with student journalists in Cairo this morning.

Among other issues, Glassman,

Army’s Video Game-Equipped Recruitment Center Fuels Controversy

The controversy over the United States Army’s use of video games to woo potential recruits rages on…

On Friday Reuters served up a detailed report on a new, $12 million recruiting facility opened by

The Big Easy Wants to Get Its Game On

While the video game development business has been expanding in Louisiana in recent years, officials in New Orleans believe that the Big Easy deserves a larger slice of the pie.

To that end, New Orleans

IRS Should Look Into Taxing Virtual Goods, Says Tax Advocate

If you’re running a virtual goods business in, say, Second Life, you may soon find yourself on the radar of the Internal Revenue Service.

The Washington Post reports that Nina Olson, who serves as the