Nintendo to launch 3D-capable DS handheld
Nintendo is planning to launch a new version of its handheld DS gaming device on which users can get the illusion of 3D without using special glasses, it said Tuesday.
Nintendo is planning to launch a new version of its handheld DS gaming device on which users can get the illusion of 3D without using special glasses, it said Tuesday.
One of the country’s hardest violent video game critics, South Australian Attorney-General (AG), Michael Atkinson, has resigned to pave the way for new Labor blood.
Your brain has a lot to communicate, but when you're working on a computer or playing a game, all of those thoughts gets distilled into a keyboard or gamepad interface that can be limiting to say the least.
Gamers will dress as zombies to raise awareness about the lack of an R18+ rating for video games in Australia
Troubled home life? Blame the internet if you're using it to do work, view pornography, gamble, and of course, play computer games.
Shadow treasurer Joe Hockey has slammed the government’s proposal to filter the Internet in a presentation at Melbourne’s Grattan Institute yesterday.
A group dressing as zombies to protest the lack of an R18+ video game classification in Australia will return to Sydney later this month.
The jury is still out on whether adults are just as influenced by video game violence as juveniles, according to a Macquarie University psychologist. Dr Wayne Warburton, who earlier this week told the House of Representatives that violent media can imbed aggression into the subconscious, said the “evidence is mixed” as to how violence in media can influence adults, or more specifically, whether juveniles would adopt aggression-related scripts more readily than adults through prolonged exposure to violent video games.
A 17-year-old honors student from Pennsylvania admitted to crashing Sony's PlayStation site after being banned for cheating in SOCOM U.S. Navy Seals. He brought down the site for 11 days in November 2008 by infecting it with a virus.
The Attorney General’s department is about to be inundated with submissions calling for the introduction of an R18+ classification for electronic games. Electronics Boutique retail outlets across Australia and the Group Up Australia website collected submissions this month in response to a Federal Government discussion paper on the introduction of an R18+ classification for computer games in Australia.
A quarter of web users play games on social networks, such as Facebook, on a regular basis, says PopCap.
The lack of an R18+ classification for electronic games has been linked to an increase in piracy and poor sales of titles that were toned-down to meet Australia’s top M15+ rating.
Australian-developed Flight Control app celebrates two industry award nominations and 2 million downloads
Who among us hasn't played Tetris?
Electronic Arts (EA) Australia is claiming a win for its viral marketing campaign for its upcoming gaming title, <i>Mass Effect 2</i>. The company received about 100 ‘applications’ for a fake advertisement offering positions as “Biotic Powered Super Soliders”.