Outgoing ESA CEO Mike Gallagher may be moving on to politics
Mike Gallagher resigned his job as CEO of the Entertainment Software Association today, after 11 years running the video game industry’s lobbying group in...
The DeanBeat: President Trump — guns are the problem, not games
President Donald Trump is looking for distractions and scapegoats. Instead of taking on gun ownership, he has asked whether violent video games might be...
The DeanBeat: Paris may give us a moment of clarity about who we pretend to be
MONTREAL — Video games are not detached from the real world. We use them to remind us of real life, or sometimes to escape...
Violent video games can actually increase a player's moral awareness
A new university study suggests that violent games make players more aware of violence in real life.
Ken Levine opens up on the violence in BioShock Infinite
In an NPR interview, Levine talks about how violence in games is evolving.
Oxford study says frustrating gameplay, not violent content, causes aggression in gamers
If you hear a Call of Duty player cursing at his TV set, it's more likely that their rage was caused by their lack of success than by exposure to violent content.
The DeanBeat: The powers that be show how Washington D.C. views the game business
The White House advisor on games and the game industry's top lobbyist view gaming in very different ways.
Scientists ask for objective review of video game violence research
They're concerned that a 2005 resolution on violence in video games and other interactive media was marred by methodological flaws, ideological biases, and conclusions drawn from inconsistent or weak evidence.
‘Fox & Friends’ host Elisabeth Hasselbeck calls for registry of gamers
Hasselbeck says gamers should "timeout" if they're playing violent games for too long.
Fox News host indicts games and movies during NRA speech
One speaker in particular, Fox News host Jeanine Pirro, cited violent video games and Hollywood movies as the spark that sets off mass murderers, according to Raw Story. She also told the audience of NRA members that alleged Boston bomber, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, has more rights than lawful gun owners.