Rockstar Games has announced that they have released a patch which disables the “Hot Coffee” mod for its new and wildly popular Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas game. Of course, one of the reasons that it is so wildly popular is because the Hot Coffee mod was released. The Hot…

Apparently the experts were wrong. Apparently Internet addiction is a factor with online gamers. At least some of them. Oh sure, you can explain away the killing of a fellow gamer as an act of passion. And fighting over who gets custody of game points as emotions running high. But…

Apparently despairing of what is happening to Chinese youth as a result of violent online games (can’t wait for Aunty’s groupie, Kailee, to chime in here), the Chinese government has said that from now on, minors are prohibited from playing games which involve players killing other players (known as “PK”,…

China has been in the news with relation to the Internet a lot of late. They recently joined the anti-spam “London Plan”, have expanded their Internet offerings to their citizens with MSN Spaces’ Chinese portal (which admits to censoring in China), and, most recently, have been in the center of…

A New York woman has filed a lawsuit over Hot Coffee. No, she didn’t scald her lap, and no, the defendant is not McDonalds. Rather, 85-year-old Florence Cohen is suing the publishers of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas over the so-called “Hot Coffee” mod which opens up previously-hidden scenes from the game. Very explicit scenes.

With apologies to John “Bluto” Blutarsky, “AIM Fight!” What the heck is “AIM Fight?”, we can already hear our readers scratching their collective heads. Well, you know all of those 6 Degrees of Kevin Bacon friend-of-a-friend sites which have become so popular (or reviled, depending on where you stand) over…

Like a row of dominos falling over, store after store has pulled the video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas off the store shelves after it was revealed that a third-party add-on, known as a “mod”, to the game unlocked secret content which allowed players to control the main character’s performance in the bedroom.

Remember that study that said that Internet addiction was not a big factor in online gaming? Well maybe Internet addiction itself isn’t, but surely online gaming addiction has to be a factor in the rise in issues surrounding the “ownership” of online game ‘property’. And when we say “issues”, we…

A high school student has been identified as the mastermind behind a phishing scheme involving a fake banking website. According to authorities in Korea, the teenager, identified only by his surname ‘Kim’, managed to get personal and financial data from seventy-seven targets before he was ultimately caught. Officials explained that…

Remember Terri Iligan, the woman who sold her name on eBay, agreeing to legally change it to anything which the highest bidder requested? Not to be outdone, Kari Smith has sold her forehead on eBay – well, leased, really – for the tattooing pleasure of the highest bidder which, not…

California Senator Debra Bowen, known for her tough stance against spam, is now taking a shot (no pun intended) at what she sees as another Internet scourge: real-time remote Internet hunting of live game. While some consider the Senator’s stand on the remote “sport” to be emotional and anti-gun, Internet…

While it may be that addiction is not a problem for Internet gamers, apparently taking their games too seriously is. Not just a problem – but potentially fatal. According to the BBC, Chinese online gamers Qiu Chengwei and Zhu Caoyuan were both involved in the online game Legend of Mir…

STOCKHOLM , Sweden, May 31 /PRNewswire/ — Eleven new gaming sites were recently launched within the company’s network, 24hNetwork. The new sites are marketed by local partners who use 24hPoker’s software for poker and sport betting on the Internet. The sites are targeting players in Russia, Asia, South Europe, Great…

SEATTLE, Wash May 16, 2005 On the eve of the gaming confab E3, M:Metrics, the industry authority on the measurement of subscriber consumption of mobile content and applications, reports that although there is an equal gender split in mobile game play, with 32 percent of females and 34 percent of…

Internet addiction. Did you even know that Internet addiction was formally recognized? There is even a “Center for Internet Addiction”, founded by Dr. Kimberly Young! Kimberly Young is “an internationally known expert on Internet addiction” according to her bio at the Center for Internet Addiction website. Well now PhD candidate…