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Moral Panics

GameStop Being Investigated by NY AG’s Office

In what could be seen as yet another step down the road towards complete digital distribution, GameStop is being investigated by the New York Attorney General‘s office on charges of linking its customers to shady discount people.

GameStop is only one of almost two dozen online retailers on the AG’s list, alongside  such hallowed edifices as Barnes & Noble, Buy.com, and… Pizza Hut

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Is the XBox a “Sex Box”? Denver Reporter Asks All the Tough Questions

First: no.

But according to a sensationalist Denver ‘news’ report on the aforementioned ‘sex box,’ “XBOX live, Play Station 3 and even Wii have become a sexual predator’s playground.”

On the basis of footage gathered from a camera crew’s expedition into what appears to be all of two Denver households, a budget- and talent-strapped local news affiliate has once again managed to approach gaming from the hoariest perspective possible: That if unsuspecting American parents allow their children to approach any electronic device more complicated than a Tiger Handheld, sexual sex predators will reach their slimy sex tentacles through the fiber-optic cables running into your house and sex them. With sex.

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Are Savegames a One-Way Ticket to the Fiery Bowels of Hell?

I Hope They Support Radeon Cards in Hell

Oh, wow, the social science boffins over at Terra Nova have stumbled across a blog post by a Catholic priest claiming that the presence of save/reload options in video games is eroding the spiritual fiber of young men and women.

Wait a minute. The video game industry churns out horrors like Japanese rape simulators and games which depersonalize the deaths of millions, and the best thing religious types can find to criticize is…a feature that lets gamers get up and go to the bathroom?

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