Australian New South Wales acting Superintendent Dave Evans has blasted driving games as a reason for Australia’s infamous dangerous roads. Evans told the Australian Telegraph: “Videogames can have a negative impact on young drivers because it increases their complacency and their risk-taking behaviour.”
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Google kills Second Life copy “Lively”; 5 ways user-generated content sucks
Google has announced that at the end of this year it is to cease running its Second Life copy – Lively. Lively, a virtual world with user-generated avatars and content, rather cleverly allowed you to import content from other Google applications – pictures from Picasa, video etc. But that hasn’t stopped it from the chop [...]
Grand Theft Auto IV Xbox 360 download content “Lost And Damned” dated
USA Today, the American newspaper, has the first details of the long-awaited downloadable content for Grand Theft Auto IV on the Microsoft Xbox 360. The expansion pack, named “Lost And Damned” is set to focus on a new character, Johnny Klebitz, part of The Lost biker gang – already seen in GTA IV.
Animal rights group PETA carves up Cooking Mama
The animal rights group PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) has launched an attack on massively popular casual game Cooking Mama. PETA’s new microsite “Cooking Mama: Mama Kills Animals”, launched in time for the start of the US holiday season, features a Cooking Mama-like mini-game that sees you skinning and disembowelling dead turkeys [...]
Fallout 3 gets its own Google Map
Want to navigate the post-apocalyptic irradiated ruins of Washington DC? Well, help is at hand – the good folks at Planet Fallout are compiling a Google Maps mashup of pretty much where everything you want to find, and really don’t want to find, in Fallout 3 is.
Halo MMO was “greenlit”, “in production” before Microsoft cancelled; Halo Wars dev speaks out
The developer behind the massively successful Age Of Empires series and Halo Wars, the Halo universe realtime strategy game coming in February, has criticised Microsoft over the studio’s closure and the cancelation of its Halo massively multi-player online (MMO) game.
Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars map to be almost as big as GTA IV
A translation of a Spanish-language games magazine appears to show that Rockstar’s Nintendo DS Grand Theft Auto game – Chinatown Wars – will be almost as large in scale as Grand Theft Auto IV.
Sony PS3 Home open beta in “coming weeks”
An open beta of Home, Sony’s rival to the Xbox New Experience (and Nintendo’s Miis), will be available in the “coming weeks”, available to all PS3 owners. In an official post on Sony’s Home forum, Home’s community manager “TedTheDog” has said that the plan is to ramp up numbers in the current closed beta rapidly [...]
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