"BOYS who don't play videogames at all are at greater risk of getting into trouble than those who play violent games occasionally, according to two Harvard psychologists.

The pair also said there was also no evidence to suggest violent games turn young people into criminals or violent people, despite some media reports.

"If you look at the violent crime in the US over the past 20 years among teenagers it's gone down, and gone down significantly, and if you look at videogame play, it's ..."

"You see it all the time in eBay game listings. "RARE!!!" Of course, this being the internet, it's usually part of the full listing "GEARS OF WAR FOR XBOX 360 – RARE!!!" but occasionally, it's justified. Here we take a look at the different types of retro games and some of the crazy prices they're going for.

The popular desirables
These are the games that sold by the shedload in their day, so hardly count as 'rare' yet still seem to fetch a high price on eBay. Such as…

Final Fantasy VII..."

"Uwe Boll is known the world over as a destroyer of hopes and dreams when it comes to movies based on video games. He has directed, produced and butchered the movie versions of games such as: Dungeon Siege, Bloodrayne, House of the Dead, and Postal. He also has 4 more movies based on video games coming out in the next 2 years, including a movie based on the mind-blowing Far Cry. His destruction of videogame movie genre (if there really is one) is so complete, that whenever a new videogame movi..."

"You want a single man's fortunes by which you can gauge the current success of Nintendo? Look no further than former chairman Hiroshi Yamauchi, who in the past three years has gone from being Japan's 11th-richest man, to it's 3rd-richest man, to now it's richest man. That's what happens when you own mountains of Nintendo stock, and said stock goes through the roof. While there's been no reports of Yamauchi smashing any marble tables over the news, he is expected to spend at least some of his ..."

"General consensus around the industry recently has tipped the imminent arrival of a new DS, whether it's a new model of the existing machine in a GBA SP sort of way, or an entirely new 'DS 2'.

We contacted Nintendo for a comment and they gave us more than the usual 'rumour and speculation' answer. Which was...

"No announcement has been made by Nintendo and everything reported online is pure speculation and rumour. Our hardware development team always work on the next product after we la..."

Uwe Boll has pissed off alot of big names lately. There's Steven Spielberg, George Clooney, Blizzard, and Michael Bay just to name a few.

And now Stride Gum has jumped into the action, announcing that they will offer a free pack of gum to every gamer that signs the "Stop Uwe from making movies" petition. Is that a genius marketing strategy or what!

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A lot of people point out the similarities between Tomb Raider and Uncharted and there is about to be another trait they share. A secret source close to the deal has informed Joystiq that Atlas Entertainment wants to turn the popular PS3 videogame into a film. While this should be treated as a rumour at best Joystiq have already begun examining who could possibly be penned as the role for Nathan Drake, and guess who they arrived at? Nathan Fillion.

Cristism. Everyone needs it and while Grand Theft Auto IV was being praises with a 10/10 from IGN and living up to the hype, somebody from video gamer sat in their basement to write up a blog on all the wrong things of the game. He relates the new to the old, basically and how Rockstar changed things...for the worse. Go to the source to read full details, but the changes that he doesn't like in the game are the 'too-realistic' driving, harsh cops, the world, the bad combat, the overall fun(wh...

"The Incredible Hulk Ultimate Destruction - Vivendi-Universal (2005): It isn’t often that a video game company gets a game adaptation absolutely perfect, but that was the case with Vivendi’s Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction game in 2005. I could go on and on about the coolness of the game’s story or the appearances by long-time Hulk comic book mainstays such as General Thunderbolt Ross, the Abomination, Doc Samson, Mercy or Mr. Fixit, but that isn’t what the game is really about. If you..."

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Basically, a mother writes from her perspective, falling for her children's whines for a Nintendo or else they'd be 'left out'. What happens? Hell for her. She had read articles that praised the Nintendo DS, saying that it'd 'bump your mental ability'. So she bought it and the kids loved her. Yay! Too early to celebrate. The kids started to become addicted and fought over it. They desperately searched for it and found it when the mother hid it from them. They were hooked. When they lost the c...

We could all agree that the Nintendo 64 was a fantastic console. It featured some of the greatest games of all time, it introduced us to the modern console FPS, and it had the best multiplayer experience at the time. Because of this, its very hard to make a list of just ten top games. GameDaily has managed to do it. Do you agree with their choices?

"How many gaming consoles do you need? Could Grand Theft Auto IV put a chink in the Wii's armor? Or will the Nintendo Wii continue to stomp the Playstation 3 and XBox 360? Share your thoughts in our Reader Comments section below.

Early on, some industry analysts predicted trouble for Nintendo (other-otc: NTDOY.PK - news - people ): The Wii had a relatively pokey processor, it lacked a hard drive, its controls were unusual. Two years ago, developer Chris Hecker took those whispers into the o..."

"If we’re not jumping through hoops trying to save a kingdom, we’re fetching some rare Crystal Sword of Infinite Necromancy all out of the kindness of our hearts. What do we get in return? “Ah, gee thanks for risking life and limb to do a big ol’ fancypants favor for me and restoring our world to what it once was from the Dark Ruler of Naught. Here’s a medal, young adventurer. Never mind our bustling cleavage. Now get the hell out, street rat. Sorry ‘bout the hard-on.”

Whaaaaaa? Faster than..."

Halo 3 and COD4 have been trading the one and two slots on live for the past few months. But as GTAIV has been released it's been the king of the castle now. It has roughly 1 million users go onto live in its first 24 hours of online life. It's been number one since its launch and from the data they've collect the majority of the members on live were playing GTAIV.

"Sometimes so-called Early adopters -- gamers who get in line to join the next generation a minute after midnight -- miss their old hardware's swan song. And yet it's often those eleventh-hour games like Killer Instinct, Bully, Pokémon, and Okami that prove a gaming platform's untapped potential. Here are our top five games that arrived late to the party.
5. God of War II
System: PlayStation 2 | Release Date: 2007 | Publisher: Sony

We ended our God of War I review by saying, "With all ..."

"With the Byron Report still in mainstream newspapers' minds, it's inevitable that crosshairs are going to be targeted on Rockstar's latest GTA sequel eventually... with the aim being controversy.

It's up for debate whether it'd be anywhere near as good without the violence, sexual inuendo or ability to rundown a park full of pedestrians (we know which side we'd take). But here's the targets critics are going to gun for anyway...

Ladies of the night
Goes without saying this one; the dig..."

The Late Show host Conan O'Brien could not resist makign fun of GTA. With so many news stories abiut this game being evil, its good to see a change of news stories. Conan O'Brien shows off the softer, friendlier side of Grand Theft Auto.

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"By GTA-series standards, mission difficulty in GTA IV is pretty well-paced. But we'd be happy to bet that you'll fail certain missions a few times. What you need is a video of the toughest missions being completed so you know the best way to success. We've beaten the ten hardest missions (as voted by a panel of 'experts') on video for that purpose.

The missions covered are: Snowstorm, Three Leaf Clover, Hostile Negotiations, Late Checkout, Union Drive, Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend, Mu..."

Mario Kart Wii! Online!! Oh, No!!!
Well, well, well... What do you know, Nintendo is organizing Mario Kart Wii tournaments. They are going to find out who the true Mario Kart Wii master is. The first race was held on Thursday. What is better than some serious action against the clock to start off the tournament.
These are worldwide tournaments and all you need is an internet connection. (And of course a Nintendo Wii and Mario Kart Wii for it.)

"We're a bit disappointed by this week's ELSPA piracy raid. We went in expecting the pirate-chinning ELSPA Anti-Piracy Unit, wicked raid names like 'operation buzzard' and a dirty pirate who ends up getting 20 years in prison, and an appointment with a bag of pool balls for MESSING with the APU.

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All we've got this week though is the West Yorkshire police, who's boasting about nicking two blokes selling copied games in the Richard Dunn Sports Centre in Bradford. Badass.

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"Many people love the GTA series for its rich narrative and compelling characters. But if you’re at all like us you revel in pure, unadulterated carnage. We put a crack team of daredevils to work squeezing every ounce of madness out of GTA IV’s wide-open sandbox. We turned helicopters into people-blenders, stared down speeding trains and pulled off some of the sickest automotive stunts you’ll ever witness. Want to see the screaming good results? Then sit back and enjoy while we work over your ..."

"That screenshot that you can see over on the right is the latest from Fable 2, Lionhead's RPG sequel.

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It's a graveyard, with gravestones, and eldritch mist hovering above the ground. We want our mummies.

There's a lot riding on Fable 2, and anything less that an RPG revolution will be met with huge disappointment.

But the latest demo didn't just hint at massive features, it actually showed them occurring in-game. It's got us sold - Fable 2's going to rewrite the boo..."

From a plane to a car, then to finally rides based on Pokemon what much more could be done? One of the cars is a Pikachu beetle which would have seen by a few before by the other car is a Lugia Chrysler PT Cruiser. The beetle is easily able to guessed that its a Pikachu but as for the Lugia Chrysler, not as easy. The rides are from the poke park and look well interesting to be honest.