Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum used to be similar to nearly every other politician, believing that video games would train young children to be mass murderers. He took particular issue with the Wii version of Manhunt 2 due to the fact that he thought the Wii’s motion controls would enable kids to act out their “violent tendencies.”

According to GamePolitics, the person who planted that seed in his head was, of course, a certain Jack Thompson.

However, now that the holiday season is upon us, McCollum is taking a stance that other politicians are beginning to take – cautioning parents to exercise restraint when it comes to…

One of the main things that hurts the video game industry is piracy. Some individuals know how to hack Xbox 360 or PSP consoles and play illegal copies of games on them with relative ease. There are DRM protection methods to help curb piracy on PC but consoles are quickly becoming another avenue for pirates to pillage.

The Entertainment Software Association (ESA) isn’t taking this problem lightly as it had in a recent raid in Guadalajara, Mexico. With the help of Mexican authorities, the ESA recovered a treasure cove of illegal games.

The San Juan de Dios Market was the target…

The Entertainment Software Association named Michael Gallagher its new president, replacing the organization’s first president and founder, Douglas Lowenstein, who has served since 1994. Gallagher is coming to ESA from the law firm Perkins Coie, and was previously the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information in the US Department of Commerce for President more »