Violence Tackled at Online Gaming Parlors
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Six days a week, teens crowd the Blue Screen Gaming cybercafe to hunt each other down with assault rifles inside virtual computer worlds. In these video game halls, nobody gets hurt. But real-life violence has flared around some of these businesses, prompting municipal crackdowns.
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China said it would issue new rules cracking down on âundesirableâ elements of online games amid fears of growing Internet addiction as the number of players soars.
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Online gambling firms faced their biggest-ever crisis on Monday after U.S. Congress passed legislation to end Internet gaming there, threatening jobs and wiping 3.5 billion pounds ($6.5 billion) off company values.
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Someone needs to buy a firewall. The game industry, Rockstar in particular, has once again been a victim of piracy. After the big-time thefts over the last year or so, such as Half-Life 2, Doom
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At a warehouse in Oakland, Calif., video game fans get shot in the face with fire, but it's all in the name of fun.
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It's called 'murderabilia'âthe buying and selling of items connected to grisly crime scenes. And it's a brisk business online. Inside the campaign to police the murder market.
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An online role-playing game is to be built by a community of ordinary gamers.
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SINGAPORE - Card games are a common pastime at traditional Chinese funerals, but criminals are reportedly paying off grieving relatives to run their gambling operations at wakes.
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Makers of online role-playing games aim to attract a diverse crowd--and break out of the fantasy-medieval mold.
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By Jackie Burrell, Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif.  May 29--Fearful parents may conjure up images of trench-coated predators trolling the Web, but the virtual world their teens actually inhabit is more like the soda shop of yesteryear or the mall -- a place to hang with friends.
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In a nation addicted to online multiplayer games, one that invited users to execute corrupt officials proved too much for the authorities
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Less than a week before its release, the wildly anticipated crime game has itself been stolen and republished on the internet. Less than a week after a pirated version of Halo 2 began appearing on the Web, another
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Researchers from the Indiana University School of Medicine are trying to determine whether violent video games such as Grand Theft Auto can make players more prone to violent behavior.
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Five men arrested in game store robberies  WETUMPKA, ALA. - A robbery led police to five South Carolina men accused of using the Internet to pinpoint targets in a multistate robbery spree.
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AOL Instant Messenger message directs victims to Web sites that host the dangerous images.
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Blizzard makes noises about cracking down on real-money sales of items from the virtual World of Warcraft, but such transactions may impossible to stop. By Daniel Terdiman.
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CAMAS, Wash. - Police and school officials in Camas are using a computer game to teach students about Internet predators. Beginning this month, all sixth graders in the school district will spend a day using