When the South Korean government says, “Turn those games off and go to bed, youngster,” they really mean it.

Chosunilbo reports The Assembly’s legislation and judiciary committee voted unanimously April 20, 2011, to pass a controversial game curfew bill. It would ban children 15 and under from playing online games from midnight until 6 a.m.

Interestingly, the law does nothing to affect offline or console games. The console game provision would probably be a little hard to police.

Vietnam recently put restrictions in place for online gaming. Earlier this month, the Ministry of Information forced internet service providers to block access to online gaming between the hours of 10pm and 8am. The government hopes that by doing this, the amount of violence that is attributed to videogame playing will be reduced. Online gaming in Vietnam is seen as troublesome to officials there. They believe it can lead to deviant behavior, low grades and even death. It has been almost a week since the curfew was put in place, and Vietnam is dealing with the results.

Gamers in Vietnam are going to find their evenings to be lacking by the beginning of March. At the request of the Ministry of Information and Communication, internet service providers in the country are asked to prohibit online gaming between the hours of 10pm to 8am.

Here’s another reason as to why you should consistently practice safe online gaming. Antivirus company Symantec has revealed that they’ve uncovered a staggering 44 million stolen gaming accounts. What’s even more surprising was that these accounts were being validated by a Trojan called Trojan.Loginck that was being distributed to infected computers.

According to Symantec’s blog, the server that housed these stolen accounts is part of a distributed password checker that targets Chinese gaming websites. The stolen info comes not only from logins of specific games, but also user login accounts from sites that host online games.

OnLive will be launching June 17, 2010 for a monthly price of $14.95 in the lower 48 states in America. If you are one of the first qualified 25,000 people to sign up for OnLive, your first three months of service will be free of charge. The rest of the community will be able to pay the standard monthly fee or sign up for 3 or 6 month plans for a discount. OnLive promises to reveal these prices options closer to the start of E3 which starts June 15, 2010.

I recently spoke with Felicia Day, the star and creator of the web series The Guild. Felicia was very nice and seemed to enjoy answering all my questions.

The Guild is a web-based show about six quirky gamers who play an on-line World Of Warcraft-type game together. The six players are all very good at the game but not so good with social interactions, which makes for very funny and tragic adventures.

The third season of the show is now available through CreateSpace DVD on-Demand and will also be available as a full season download through Amazon Video on Demand. The series will be $14.95 and will include bonus content not shown on the web including the Halloween episode; “Do You Want to Date My Avatar” music video; Guild applicant rejects; “How to Build Vork’s Sword”; audio commentary with the cast, creator, director and producer; Axis of Anarchy interviews and gag reels.

Gamer isn’t quite what you’d expect from the title. Sure, it has a fair share of gaming cliches but it tempers them with just the right mix of seriousness and humor and then wraps it all in an interestingly gritty cinematic style.

Don’t be mistaken. Little about this movie is subtle.

Imagine a future where you don’t need to run out and buy the latest console, or send yourself into debt building the best PC for your gaming needs. Even better, imagine the sexiest of next-gen titles running at full speed right on your crappy old computer (or TV), with no beefy hardware required. OnLive Inc. is hoping that sounds good to you, because when the streaming game service launches later this year, that’s exactly what it’ll be offering.

There are so many jokes about World of Warcraft being akin to a second job that one wonders whether or not your better work-related WOW skills could legitimately be applied to a resume. That very idea is at the center of a recent PC World article by senior writer Darren Gladstone – could your management skills in a virtual world apply in real-world situations?

After the mad rush of the holiday season, with so many of the year’s biggest guns (ahem, Gears of War 2, LittleBigPlanet, Left 4 Dead, need I go on?) behind us, it’s understandable that you’re probably a little bored right now. January and February have traditionally been a pretty slow time for releases, and that means you’ll have to get a little bit creative in order to keep things interesting in the meantime. But getting a little bit creative is what we do best, so we threw together a few tips that should keep you happily amused until March, when the trickle picks up again.