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Suit tying video game to murders may proceed

Rejecting an appeal by video-game makers and sellers, the Alabama Supreme Court has kept alive a $600 million lawsuit blaming “Grand Theft Auto” for the murders of the three-person night shift at a rural police department.
A lawyer for the victims’ families said the decision sets the stage for what could be the nation’s first trial [...]

Video Games and The Law

Video games and age restrictions–the US and UK
Judge blocks California game law
Senate panel OKs video game study
House Bill 2178 is toilet paper
Regulating Video Games: Must Government Mind Our Children?
Senator says ’science’ backs need to restrict video games
Video Game Violence and Public PolicyThis paper will address three issues related to the questions surrounding violent electronic games [...]

Some Dilemmas for the Video Game Industry

If there’s one word that will attract geeks’ attention more than “games,” it’s “porn.” And that’s the exact term that David Jaffe, the iconoclastic director of God of War and cocreator of Twisted Metal, used to illustrate the dilemma he feels the game industry is facing. Read more…
Religion and Ethics News: The Values in Video [...]

Gathering Links

CBS 60 Minutes Story – Can A Video Game Lead To Murder? Read the Article
Can a Video Game Lead to Murder? Watch the 60 Minutes Video
Rockstar Games: Home of Grand Theft Auto, Manhunt, and the upcoming Bully
SCU Technology Ethics Articles
Wikipedia on Computer and Video Games
The Decline of Video GamesDevil May Cry: Dante’s Awakening [...]

It’s a Pod Pod World…

This guy Dave, has LOTS of podcasting solutions! It’s called

Dave’s Imaginary Sound Space
~julz

Terrorist?

Scenario, the next game developed and released by popular game company titled – “Terrorist”.
I am contemplating the upcoming release of another “bad boy” videogame called Bully by the makers of Grand Theft Auto. See Miami-Dade to Bully maker: Game over School board takes stand over violent video game. Maybe there already is a [...]

GTA and Morals

Playing a “Good” Game: A Philosophical Approach to Understanding the Morality of Games
by Ren Reynolds© 2002 Ren Reynolds
Introduction
What do we mean when we say that a game is good or bad?
Generally speaking good games are those that have strong gameplay, impressive graphics or simply are just plain fun; whereas bad games are ones that have [...]

Looking for Books

Remote Control edited by Catharine Lumby and Elspeth ProbynI already have this book, so I decided to use 2 chapters at the end for this topic:Chapter 10 – Control-SHIFT: Censorship and the Internet by Kate Crawford.Chapter 11 – The Ethics of Porn on the Net by Kath Albury
Computers, Ethics, and SocietyThere are 5 chapters in [...]

Right Under My Nose

I just couldn’t get excited about media and ethics. I think I’ve done way too much media literacy curriculum development. Anyways, I realized that I had already created a scenario that I love talking about and I just keep going back to it. So I’ll be culling, combining, and creating here on the topic of [...]