Cheaters never prosper folks, and that’s been highlighted when a Chinese counter-strike player suspected of wallhacking became the unfortunate recipient of a 30cm knife to the head from an angry assailant. Wallhacking allows players to see through walls, allowing you to see your enemies before they see you – giving cheaters an obvious advantage. Too bad his hacks couldn’t let …

Quick family history lesson, my sister is an insanely qualified person who is currently lecturing a class on Criminology at a local University. Every Friday they debate something and juggle the pro’s and con’s from either side (some of the topics are just downright scary and disgusting). However tomorrow the topic is whether or not videogames are linked to violent …

An Italian man trying to give his son pointers on how to play Fifa 2009 got something he wasn’t expecting  – a knife in his throat. Fabrizio R., A 46-year-old storekeeper was watching his 16-year-old son Mario play the football game on his PlayStation on Sunday evening. The man then started giving the boy advice on how to play better, …

17 year-old James Callaghan, a person with a history of undiagnosed schizophrenia and known to be violent under the influence of alcohol has, in what is a particularly senseless tragedy, killed a 65-year old woman with an axe. Callaghan, after dispensing with a bottle of vodka and arming himself with point instruments of death,  forced his way in to Irene …

Paediatricians, not to be mistaken for kiddy fiddlers, have apparently established an irrefutable causal link between media violence and untoward aggression in children. The American Academy of Paediatrics claims that "The evidence is now clear and convincing: media violence is one of the causal factors of real-life violence and aggression," particularly outing the music industry for glamorising sex, drugs, alcohol, …

Trinley Dorje is, by all accounts, your average 24 year old guy. He listens to hip-hop and plays videogames. He’s also the He’s also the Karmapa Lama, making him the only politically recognised senior Buddhist leader. So probably not your average 24 year old then. Unlike the rest of us, he dresses in red and gold robes and is a …

You know what, when I read up about this story it became clear pretty quickly that videogames were becoming yet another victim to media BS. You see, what happened is that the murder victim Danny Taylor’s girlfriend reports that she was out picking up some things, but when she came back she saw her boyfriends buddy running out the apartment …

So as we all know, Germany are a little nuts when it comes to violent video games in the fear that if a little German boy plays a bloody game then they will be responsible for another world war. Check out this new warning label being slapped on violent videogames (posted on the NeoGaf forums) such as Grand Theft Auto: …