Electronic Arts issued a press release late yesterday announcing that it had secured a line of credit of up to a billion dollars to fund its hostile takeover bid for...

An exclusive GamePolitics interview with Rep. Lee Terry (R) demonstrates that the Nebraska Congressman, co-sponsor of a new video game ratings enforcement bill, has a...

Next Generation is reporting GTA IV glitches on the PlayStation 3 version. Joystiq notes that, despite Take Two chairman Strauss Zelnick’s assertion that the game...

As GamePolitics reported last month, Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson (left)Â appealed a decision by the US 8th Circuit Court which held that a lower court was...

Taking the Parents Television Council up on an interview offer, Phil Villarreal of the Arizona Daily Star spoke with Dan Isett (left), PTC Director of Public Policy...

Politicians just can’t seem to get it right, so attorney and avid gamer Mark Methinitis, who pens the excellent Law of the Game blog, has written a guide forÂ...

Michael Gallagher (left), CEOÂ of the Entertainment Software Association, which represents a number of US video game publishers, has commented on a bill introduced in...

We’ve got additional reactions to yesterday’s report by the Federal Trade Commission which gave high marks to the video game biz for its enforcement of ESRB...

Our hosting company had a server issue late yesterday which caused GamePolitics to be down for about three hours. We also lost a few reader comments when the server...

Last week, GamePolitics first began to suspect that Activision and Vivendi might have left the Entertainment Software Association (ESA) after noticing that the game...

The steep decline in sales of M-rated games to underage buyers reported this morning by the Federal Trade Commission is a clear victory for the video game industry on...

Hotly-anticipated PC titles Spore and Mass Effect will be among the first wave of PC games from EA to employ a controversial form of copy protection. Techdirt reports...

The results of the Federal Trade Commission’s latest research into the marketing of violent entertainment to children is a major win for the video game industry....

Variety reports that a new legislative attempt to regulate video game sales has been launched in Congress. Undoubtedly spurred on by the publicity surrounding the recent...

Barack Obama may have dissed Grand Theft Auto IV a bit last week, but, on the streets of L.A. at least, the candidate and the controversial game have become one....

The Daily Mail serves up a rather bizarre video game bash piece this morning. Journalist and English mum Rosie Millard (left) writes that the Nintendo DS, of all...

And you thought the GTA IV bashing was over? Silly you… The Catholic Exchange has jumped into the fray, terming the hit game a “dangerous cultural...

Game biz guru Keith Boesky offers his thoughts on last week’s stunning news that Activision and Vivendi have pulled out of the ESA. While the decision of...

GameCyte has scored a video interview with California State Sen. Leland Yee (D), and is soliciting questions for Yee from readers. The Senator, a child psychiatrist and...

It will be a long time until we again see the like of last week’s Grand Theft Auto IV media feeding frenzy. Perhaps it will take the release of GTA V. The...