Criminal behaviour – it's all in the game

"The Los Angeles police department is fighting street gangs. It reports that in the past five years there were more than 23,000 verified violent gang crimes in LA, including 784 homicides, nearly 12,000 felony assaults, approximately 10,000 robberies and just under 500 rapes....

Delhi wins final Roller Hockey in senior division at Mussoorie

Mussoorie June 27On the 2 day of All IndiaInvitational Roller skating championship that concluded at Appu Ghar Delhiwon the Seniors Roller Hockey championship defeating Uttarakhand in a closely contested finals....

Daniel Petric, 'Halo 3' Killer, Gets 23 Years to Life for Murder

Daniel Petric, the Ohio teenager who shot both his parents, killing his mother, was handed a sentence of 23 years to life in prison today by Judge James Burge. Daniel's father, Mark Petric, a minister, wanted his son to get a lesser sentence, so he could get a second chance...

Guitar Hero Smash Hits Song List

In music, having enough success and longevity to warrant a Greatest Hits is a sign that they've arrived. If that's the case, then Guitar Hero has indeed made it to the big time. The franchise is releasing a Guitar Hero Smash Hits, a compilation of songs that have been...

UPDATE: Can 10th graders go for a whole week without electronics?

It had been two days since they used anything.                         Octavio Cruz didn’t know what to do with himself on the first day so he rearranged his entire room. Jamila Martinez was waking up in the middle of the night, bashing her head into...

10th graders give up electronics for an entire week

   In this age of all things digital, most people consider technology to be indispensable to their everyday lives. However, Shannon Meyer's 10th grade advisory class at the California Academy for Liberal...

Sony Drops Price on PlayStation 2

Sony has dropped the price of the PlayStation 2 to $99.99, wooing console fans not willing to shell out bigger bucks for PS3. Times being what they are, this is a good way to salvage some of the evaporating...

Playing video games may help sharpen your vision

Watching TV and playing video games for too long is considered bad for your vision. But according to a team of researchers, spending time playing video games might actually sharpen your vision. Contrast is that property of human vision that allows an individual to distinguish...

Call of Duty WaW gasps for air in a Video Game War

Released in 2007 Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare is still one of the most played and enjoyable multiplayer games. On November 2008 Call of Duty: World at War was released, the game takes place in WWII like the first three games. COD World at War's sales suffered compared to...

Playing the Layoff Game

The ailing economy has inspired a simple videogame called Layoff. Video games can be simple ways to parse emotion spawned by events that are beyond the control of one person, or even one nation. I'm reminded of the...

Over One Billion Games of Halo 3 Played

Over one billion games have been logged on Microsoft's famous Halo 3, totalling over 64 thousand *years* of time spent playing the game. This doesn't even include custom or offline games, so the number could be...

Why Warner Music Hates Guitar Hero

It's not that Warner Music doesn't want its music to appear on play-along games such as Guitar Hero; it just wants more money. In response, MTV Games, which publishes Rock Band, is reportedly boycotting Warner Music...

Hackers for Hire on Xbox Live

C'mon, that's not a bad headline... and every word is true. Basically, hackers are hiring themselves out so that rival gamers can exact revenge upon one another via data-flood attacks that have been used on the...

Pirate Bay Trial: Half of Charges Dropped

During day 2 of the Pirate Bay trial, the prosecution has dropped half of the charges against the popular torrent aggregator's founders: Frederik Neij (TiAMO), Gottfrid Svartholm Warg (anakata), Peter Sunde...

Pirate Bay trial opens in Sweden

The founders of Pirate Bay, the world's most high-profile file-sharing website, have gone on trial in Stockholm, Sweden charged with copyright theft. If convicted, the men could be fined $143,500 and face up to two...

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