When they're not inspiring rapists or teaching people exactly how to murder others in real life, videogames are giving children rickets. That's according to the British media, who have attributed...

Data like the kind found in a recent study by Kaiser Family Foundation reminds me how much we as a society spend hunched over in front of a glowing screen, whether it be a cell phone, handheld, t...

A few days ago, former EA executive Mitch Lasky wrote a scathing blog about Electronic Arts' business practices and what he called a "bankrupt strategy." While EA declined to issue an official re...

Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez doesn't like videogames. In fact, the controversial political figure hates them, having named the PlayStation a "poison" that lead Venezuelan children d...

Evil publisher Activision has today provided yet more proof that the videogame industry is doing more than its fair share to protect children from violent videogames, with a whopping 82% of paren...

Look, I'm not trying to sell you on a PC MMO that is targeted at younger boys. I'm just saying that there's content in this game that is cool enough that I'm sure you'll want to give at least par...

Notorious porn star Ron Jeremy let himself down when trying to defend his industry at a CES panel. When deflecting attacks from an anti-porn activist, the adult entertainment star chose not to st...

We have another story of f*cked up World of Warcraft players doing f*cked up things, so sit tight and enjoy the show. A 42-year-old married mother of four flew across the country to meet a 16-yea...

Yet more fuel for the argument that parents need to be responsible for their children has surfaced recently, with a new poll from MyVoucherCodes revealing that 39% of parents let their kids play ...

A 9-year-old boy was allegedly stabbed to death by a 25-year-old "friend" because of a Tony Hawk game, and this is possibly one of the most messed up game-related stories we've ever seen.  A...

Wait, what? Blackstreet singer Teddy Riley has been hit with a restraining order after his daughter accused him of abusing her and her sister with the help of a Rock Band guitar. Apparently, Rile...

In yet another cloying, mawkish tribute to the N64 kid, we have yet another Christmas video of some pudgy, ugly little child making unbelievable banshee noises because he received a game console...

A 55-year-old woman allegedly stabbed a 13-year-old boy in a drunken rage after the two argued over his Xbox gaming habits, it has been reported. Isobel MacKenzie denies the stabbing, h...

As if we needed any further evidence of the incompetence of parents in America, here we have another mother with a complete inability to control her spawn. A 14-year-old boy wouldn't stop playing...

Four sets of retro Matt Hazard memorabilia have shown up on eBay. The seller, who is totally some random dude and not at all selling the stuff in the name of marketing, is going the respectable r...

Evidently there are a lot of people out there who are better people than I am. Though I try to volunteer as often as I can, I have still not donated to Child's Play this year. However, a lot of p...

The NPD as used their magic to determine that 82% of kids are gamers. Think about that for a minute. That means the next generation is going to be like you and I. No, really, think about that for...

It's truly awe-inspiring to see how many gamers are willing to put their dedication to good use by organizing gaming marathons in the name of Child's Play. And let's not forget the generous peopl...

Emanuel Lawrence faces charges of aggravated manslaughter after a pot-fueled gaming binge caused him to fall asleep ... on his daughter. In a night of activity that police are calling "irresponsi...

All right, this is it. Going forward, I can't handle any more posts on Zeno Clash Steam sales. Never again. The indie-crafted first-person brawler is temporarily 66% off on Steam, and you need to...

Yet more evidence that children are stupid and should be mass-executed has arrived today, with word of a young boy in Illinois who called the cops after his parents took his Xbox (we assume a 360...

Videogames should be a part of every Christmas in a spiritual, traditional, and legally-enforced sense. Unfortunately, however, our letters to the United Nations demanding that anybody not playin...

A forty-year-old man becoming enraged beyond reason over a missing videogame is worrying enough, but when you find out he's prepared to kill his family for it, things enter a whole new level of d...

Sensationalist headline is GO! While the headline up there is true I have actually twisted the words around a bit to make it seem even more shocking and appalling so as to grab your attention. Ho...

Oh Hideo Kojima, you shady old bastard, you! The Metal Gear Solid creator has explained why the latest game in his stealth series, Peace Walker, is on the PlayStation Portable, despite looking ep...

It's time yet again for another scientific study that may or may not prove videogames are detrimental to your health! The mainstream media is lapping up a brand new report that suggests videogame...

Throughout the many eons that man has raised children one fact has been universally accepted by all those involved in the raising of said children: bribery will get you everywhere. It may not see...

Not to be shown up by the Xbox LIVE Indie game, Pumpkin Carver, 505 Games has something up its sleeve for Wii owners: Halloween Greeting Card for the Wii. Rated by the ESRB (for everyone, ob...

A group of kids are currently in detention for setting one of their peers on fire over a $40 videogame debt. Micheal Brewer was set alight at an apartment complex in Deerfield Beach, Florida, whe...

Remember the Nintendo 64 kid? How could you forget, really. Sometimes I can't go to sleep because his shrill screams haunt me. The majority of us probably thought he overreacted a bit to the gift...

I have no idea what kind of men this expectant mother has been sleeping with, but it appears that the result has been a tummy full of Drybones. This ultrasound quite clearly shows an undead Koopa...

Eight Singapore fans of Japanese game Slayers entered into a suicide pact so that they could become "Slayers" themselves and kill demons in World War III. The "pact" lasted tw...

It's always been considered illegal to sell adult-rated videogames and movies to minors in the UK, ever since the Video Recordings Act of 1984. However, it's been discovered today that the requir...

Laziness, murder, suicides. Videogames have been linked to all sorts of sin and vice, so what's one more problem to throw on the pile? New "research" (i.e, some people with an agenda a...

Oh, sweet controversy! Tongue-in-cheek hack-n'-slash game Fairytale Fights may be the very first console game to reward players for murdering kids, including as it does an Xbox 360 Achievement fo...

Before we get started, I would like to note that naively searching "back trouble" on Google Images yields some unexpected results after a few pages. Anyway, a study conducted by a Queen...

What is it about having a child that turns so many women into compulsive complaint-filers overnight? Whenever something happens on TV, on the radio, or in videogames, you can guarantee that a gag...

I'm both mad and happy that The Lord of the Rings: Aragorn's Quest is aged at a demographic of which I don't belong. I'm upset because for once, we are getting a videogame that has a blue sky, bu...

UK gaming magazines are full of ads for porn, sex toys and dirty phone lines. Anybody who has bought an Imagine-published mag will tell you that they are, in fact, the best bits. However, one Bri...

Lots of things can raise your blood pressure -- traffic jams, stressful days at work, pictures of mostly naked girls writhing on a bed of cherries. Apparently the latest in this list is videogame...

Lt. Col. Dave Grossman is a name that pops up in anti-videogame circles now and then. He's an author and former military man who believes that children can train themselves to become snipers by p...

Hey, you! Yea, you! Do want to make money quick? Do you want women, power and fast cars? Do you want to be snorting cocaine off a hooker within the next six weeks? Well, if you're Lil' Poison, Ar...

You know the drill by now. Some filthy little sh*thead decides to be antisocial and delinquent, then tries to dodge accountability by blaming videogames, something he knows will deflect the blame...

Thailand's ridiculous crackdown on videogames continues apace, with the country's authorities devising yet more ways in which they can ruin everybody's fun. Concerned now about "addiction&qu...

Did you know that China has been introducing game-loving children to the wacky world of electric shock therapy? That's right -- parents have been willingly signing their children up for a course ...

Blaming videogames for your sins is all the rage, and it's such a hip movement that even dirty pedophiles are doing it! 38-year-old Ontario man Michael Cherry loves him some kiddy porn, but in pl...

While politicians and moral crusaders have done their best to criticize videogames and preach about their perceived ill effects, Sesame Street (by way of the Joan Glanz Clooney Center at Sesame W...

There is no real context for why I am posting this video for all of you to see. To be honest, my friend just forwarded it to me and I laughed so hard I felt the need to share.In the early ‘...

Koei Warriors had a recent chat with Team Ninja about Koei Tecmo's first official videogame, Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2. The PS3 exclusive is a reworking of the original Ninja Gaiden 2, with extra feat...

With the news that PEGI has become the UK's sole game rating system, a brand new set of game rating symbols have appeared. These new symbols share similiarities with the old PEGI ones, but have b...

How do you cure Japanese underpopulation? Have loads of sex! How do you make sure people are having sex? If you're Koei Tecmo, you pay your employees thousands of dollars to do it! That's right, ...

I'm sure we've all wanted to shoot our brothers at some point, but 11-year-old  De-Andre Finley went that extra mile, accidentally killing his 9-year-old sibling after a videogame row ended ...

Moshe Kai Cavalin, an 11-year-old graduate from East Los Angeles College, is one smart little kid. However, he has proven that pure intelligence is no substitute for sense and taste, claiming tha...

Videogames cause rape, murder, domestic abuse, obesity and now they are kind of responsible for CO poisoning. That's the word coming from a new report that says people are using gas-powered gener...

A 12-year-old Bangkok boy leapt to his death from a sixth floor veranda after his parents decided to ban him from videogames. The boy was an avid gamer, and it was deemed that his addiction was t...

A Kennesaw woman has incontrovertibly proven that videogames are better than children after being arrested for abandoning her one-year-old son in a vehicle so she could get a gaming fix at a near...

The world of lazy parenting has gotten a shot in the arm with the launch of the GameDr, a brand new invention that will revolutionize the way that children are half-heartedly disciplined by adult...