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I also hear another game has been withdrawn as it shows CCTV footage of the James Bulger snatch thingy?
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Posted: 2007-06-20 22:07:38
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True and rightly so!
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Posted: 2007-06-20 22:33:38
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yeah correct on that one..

not sure about the manhunt one though...

is there any actual evidence that games affect people??
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Posted: 2007-06-20 22:40:31
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physically/chemically? Yeah - a study some years ago showed that women players' serotonin levels measurably increase (they "relax", good mood...), while men playing the same game get more excited etc (I think they used a tomb raider?!)... However, effects usually wore off the moment the console was turned off - and no subjects turned homicidal! Other studies (including the US congress' own investigation of columbine and games) confirmed there's no evidence to suggest games or movies push you over the edge unless you are a nutter anyway - but then a traffic jam will be enough to make you go postal - and we don't ban stop'n'go!?!
But check out the link below to see how other media influence the very kind of people who rule over good'n'evil! A veteran of the US supreme court quoting jack bauer of 24 in a north-american panel debate over torture!!! i mean - that dude is totally in lala-world while debating the "merits" of torture:

http://www.propagandamatrix.com/articles/june2007/200607Bauer.htm
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Posted: 2007-06-21 08:05:06
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Check out the Top 10 Banned Videogames
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Posted: 2007-06-21 13:57:24
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I believe the issue of banned games in australia is a LOT more complicated than the media, esp'ly us and uk tabloids, make it out to be: due to some old laws they just can not rate a game "adult"! (this is very simplified) read interviews with some of the aussie censors of gta who actually say that they wouldn't mind if it were released...as an 18 + game, but "that unfortunately that option does currently not exist!"!
Similarily, in germany until recently censors wouldn't review foreign language movies, so that e.g. an engl. Disney dvd in a german rental place would carry a default 18+ sticker! No one claims germany "bans pinocchio" - yet it's very similar to the aussie "ban" of gta etc... they are not banned! they are unrated! It's a difference!!!!!!
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Posted: 2007-06-21 15:16:57
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ratings here in phil cant stop....piracy...piracy no ratings board...means everyone can buy one
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Posted: 2007-06-21 15:23:52
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so you must be all crazy maniacs?
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Posted: 2007-06-21 17:30:46
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"Banned video game is 'fine art'

Manhunt 2 is described by its makers as an 'entertainment experience'
The US publishers of a video game banned in the UK and Ireland have described it as a "fine piece of art".

Take Two chairman Strauss Zelnick said Manhunt 2 had his full support and that consumers should decide for themselves."

Full story from the BBC here

And quite rightly too! Whilst I wouldn't go as far as to say that it's fine art, I wholeheartedly agree with the rest of Take Two's comments.

This nanny state scenario which we are increasingly being subjected to is getting bloody ridiculous.
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Posted: 2007-06-21 18:30:14
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Yo! to that
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Posted: 2007-06-21 18:37:53
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