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Just the Links, Ma’am: 6.20.08

Your daily smörgåsbord of the very best gaming has to offer. Enthusiast: Guitar Hero: World Tour details revealed at (IGN) LittleBigPlanet will have some semblance of story, feature user-policing for adult content (PS3 Fanboy) “On September 2nd, shovel talks. You dig. Monsters die,” and Atlus sets you to work building dungeons in Master of the Monster Lair for Nintendo [...]

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Just the Links, Ma’am: 6.10.08

Your daily smörgåsbord of the very best gaming has to offer. Updated on the fly: Enthusiast: Microsoft shows off Xbox 360 RPG lineup in Tokyo, including The Last Remnant, Infinite Undiscovery and Star Ocean 4 — take your pick of straight/sarcastic liveblogs (IGN, 1UP) Star Ocean 4 arrives 2009 as potential Xbox 360 exclusive; trailer and a few details [...]

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GTA IV Breaks UK Sales Record, Sells 609K on Day One

Your forecast for U.S. sales of Grand Theft Auto IV is sunny with a chance of massive ownage, if initial UK results are any indication — MCV is reporting that in the United Kingdom, the game sold 609,000 copies on day one, breaking sales records along the way.

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Games are Good, Games are Bad, 59% of Us Play Them Regardless

In the wake of the controversial and influential study recommending sweeping changes to UK game rating systems, often known as “the Byron Report,” video game violence has once again fallen under the spotlight of mainstream media outlets.

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UK Study Has “Killed Off” Link Between Games And Violence? Hardly.

Jane Barnett and colleagues at Middlesex University today claim they have killed off the link between online gaming and violence. I beg to differ.

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