In the past couple of weeks, my mail carrier has brought me nearly new copies of Gears of War 2 and the latest Call of Duty, a couple of video game blockbusters released this past holiday season. These two hit titles would’ve cost me $120 at retail, but through a locally based used-game trading service […]
South Africa: We’ll Argue with our Parents and Play Video Games!
by Muhammad Karim Earlier this week, President Thabo Mbeki proposed that an oath be recited by school children every day in a nation-building effort. Breaking News says that the Opposition Democratic Alliance Leader, Jack Bloom, had welcomed the effort saying… “I welcome the invitation to dialogue made by President Thabo Mbeki that we should develop […]
Video Games Cause Violence?
Video games have been a touchy subject for many years now ever since the Columbine shooting. In truth I believe that people are looking at video games as an easy target to shift the blame because either we do not want to claim responsibility for mistakes or because we simply cannot find the reason. Yes […]
Where are all the women?: Equality and videogames
The question over female protagonists in video games is one that has been gathering opinion for some time now. Last year, women accounted for nearly half of all video gaming audiences, yet female protagonists were only present in around 5% of titles. Even acknowledging the fact that 40% of these characters were genderless, that still […]
Videogame Watchdog NIMF Releases Its 13th Annual Top 10 Violent Games List
A conservative organization known as the “National Institute on Media and the Family,” which watches over the video game industry has released its annual “report card.” Actually, it is the group’s thirteenth annual report card. So far, the NIMF has given praise to the gaming industry. However, it had a lot of harsh words to […]
Will you ever stop playing video/computer games?
I wonder why did I choose to write on this topic, but this takes me back right to my childhood days. The days when we all had little to worry and lots to play. The world problems were nothing to us, just bask in the sunlight of innocence and fun. And in the list […]
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