'Grand Theft Auto,' driving the dark side of video games
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Since its debut in 1998, top-selling video game franchise &quot;Grand Theft Auto&quot; has been accused of being an evil force driving crime sprees, sexual deviance and health woes.
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How the world of online gaming spawned a multimillion-dollar shadow economy.
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With more than 30m sales under its belt, Grand Theft Auto is one of the most popular video game franchises. But today it is hoping that its new release, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, can break all records
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Ontario has not rated the game, but it is warning parents about the video game &quot;Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.&#39;&#39;. In it, players rub elbows with drug dealers and gang members as they steal cars, beat up thugs, and solicit prostitutes.
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First it was Halo 2, now GTA. The new iteration of the popular Grand Theft Auto franchise was supposed to hit retails shelves by the end of October however pirated
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Sometimes you&#39;ve just gotta drop your guard and own up to yourself that you&#39;re a geek. So, after pretending for about 24 hours to be above the fray surrounding the official release of Grand Theft Auto: San
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You have a motorcycle, you're besieged by demons, your head is on fire. How could a video-game maker botch a winning formula like that? By Lore SjÃ¶berg.
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In the three years since Grand Theft Auto III was released for the PlayStation 2, titles from The Simpsons: Hit &amp; Run to Spider-Man 2 have incorporated aspects of the game&#39;s groundbreaking open-ended play.
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LOS ANGELES, Feb 8 (Reuters Life!) - It's not all fun and  violence in video games, according to makers of a new genre of  games which claim to boost players' mental health and  self-esteem.
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This season&#39;s blockbuster video games give players the opportunity to hijack cars, mow down the walking undead with heavy artillery, shoot police officers and ogle topless women.
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The body count is high in two new video games, &quot;Halo 2&quot; and &quot;Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.&quot;. Those two hit games also are making casualties of their competition on the sales racks.
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If the video game industry is beginning to rake in revenue that rivals the movie industry, it's also beginning to accumulate Hollywood-like headaches.
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The violent video game &quot;Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas&quot; could eclipse Hollywood&#39;s most successful films, even as it draws the ire of critics.
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By Dorsey Griffith, The Sacramento Bee, Calif.  Jun. 22--Everyone knows someone like this: The guy who sits for hours, playing video games, his heart racing as he pummels animated bad guys with controller-driven automatic weapons.
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Video games, often maligned as  having little or no redeeming value, are becoming a way for  firefighters, soldiers, currency traders and college  administrators to hone their skills.
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There&#39;s no use in arguing about it -- the Grand Theft Auto series for the PlayStation 2 is currently the driving force behind the video game industry.
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"Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas" is an epic homage to the West Coast gang culture of the early 1990s. Yes, parents, there's way too much violence and profanity here for the kids. For those of us 18 and older, though, it's among the best video games this year.