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11 Apr 2008
PS2 News | PlayStation 2

We had to double check this to make sure we weren't reading it wrong. Newspaper The Guardian has published a piece defending video games, stating that children denied access to games are "deprived" of a "rich and magical experience". It's all gone a bit hippy-ish over here. The opinion piece, penned by writer Naomi Alderman, calls the recent government report by Tanya Byron "eminently sensible", and even defends Rockstar and Grand Theft Auto. ...

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8 Apr 2008
PS2 News | PlayStation 2
PS2 - PlayStation 2 - DVDstruction - April 8, 2008

In this week’s very special edition of DVDstruction, we cover a strange time for movies. On the one hand, there’s not much in cinemas as we desperately await this summer’s action blockbusters - starting early May with Iron Man. Yet, on the other, we’re starting to get all those Oscar-baiting dramas from last winter trickling onto DVD and Blu-ray. Never fear, moviegoer - we’re here to steer you through the ...

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7 Apr 2008
PS2 News | PlayStation 2

A newspaper is offering cash for your stories on how videogames made you "turn to a life of crime."

A listing on recruitment site StarNow, a hub for actors and musicians looking for jobs, has appeared reading, "a national newspaper wants your story and will pay hundreds of pounds to the right person."

The listing comes in the wake of last week's Byron report, which made newspapers all across the UK, some with questionable ...

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3 Apr 2008
PS2 News | PlayStation 2

A new study from the NPD Group has found that 72 percent of Americans play videogames, but the research firm says online gaming is still not fully addressed.

The number of gamers in the US rose from 64 percent of the population in 2006 to an all-time high of 72 percent in 2007, according to NPD's latest study, Online Gaming 2008.

Of the total amount of gamers in the US, over half play games online, according to the ...

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26 Mar 2008
PS2 News | PlayStation 2
American Chronicle writer Dave Gibson has joined the long list of writers hopping on the 'gamers are destroying the world' bandwagon - blaming lazy, television watching Americans for divorce, out-of-wedlock births and cancer (we made the last one up). "A society whose grown men seem to be more interested in the latest video game, rather than the survival of their nation or even of their own family--is doomed to failure," says the angry ...
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26 Mar 2008
PS2 News | PlayStation 2
Think you've got the skills to school GamesRadar? Want a chance to hand us our asses online? Well now's your chance. Starting this Thursday (27 March) we're launching PlayRadar, a new fortnightly event that gives you the chance to show us your mettle in a multiplayer showdown.Every other Thursday at 4pm (GMT) two members of the GR team will take on all-comers in a series of online matches. All you have to do is send us a friend request from ...
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19 Mar 2008
PS2 News | PlayStation 2
Gamers hate everything. Of all people, doing all sorts of hobbies, all over the world, gamers hate the most. Whether it's moaning about console prices or release dates, complaining that a game is too long, or too short, or too hard, or too easy, or too realistic, or too unrealistic. Or typing bile at each other on forums, or screaming it down the headset on LIVE.  Gamers love to hate.So in celebration of this integral piece of gaming ...
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13 Mar 2008
PS2 News | PlayStation 2
EA's conquest to buy GTA IV publisher Take-Two has stepped up a gear as it extends a tender offer directly to Take-Two shareholders, following the company's rejection of its original offer. EA has made a tender offer of $26 per share to Take-Two's shareholders, which is valued at approximately $2 Billion - the same sum Take-Two itself turned down last month. The offer is scheduled to expire at 5am GMT on Saturday, April 12. Take-Two is due to ...
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5 Mar 2008
PS2 News | PlayStation 2
Ziff Davis Media has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in New York City today in an attempt to restructure its operations and pay off its debts. "The restructuring, if approved by the court," says business publication BtoBonline, "would reduce Ziff Davis Media’s $225 million senior-note debt. That amount will be exchanged for a new $50 million (face amount) senior secured note and at least 88.8% of the common stock in the reorganized ...
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5 Mar 2008
PS2 News | PlayStation 2
PS2 - PlayStation 2 - Uwe Boll: Spielberg is sloppy Dungeon Siege and BloodRayne movie director, Uwe Boll, has lashed out at Stephen Spielberg - pitting his film, an adaptation of videogame Postal, against the new Indiana Jones flick. In an email sent to horror website Bloody Disgusting, Boll said: "On the Indiana Jones weekend - May 23 - we will go out and destroy Indiana Jones in the Box Office! We all know that Harrison Ford is older as my grandpa and his time is up - would Michael ...
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