Added Rep. Ross Romero, (D-Salt Lake City), "Although violence may not be what we should be looking to have our kids look at, it does have certain constitutional protections, unlike pornography."

Hogue and other politicians believe that the bill has a good chance of standing up in court nonetheless. Rep. Lorie Fowlke (R-Orem) pointed out that HB 257 is the most narrowly defined legislation of these kinds of violent games bills. "I think it is worth a try," she said. "Otherwise we give up and say the court will always determine our values."

• id Software
  The id Software Q&A on Worthplaying talks with id's CEO Todd Hollenshead about what they are working on: "The new IP project is the main focus of the development team at id. We have the other projects that we're working on, like Wolf, ET:QW, and our efforts in the mobile phone games, but those are all using other teams as the primary development resource. I'm not sure when we'll begin discussing details of the new IP, but it will be the next game developed entirely by id and it WILL be cool."
• The Godfather
  PALgaming's The Godfather Q&A is the latest in-house Q&A from EA about their upcoming mob movie game, discussing my old stomping grounds of Hell's Kitchen: "Hell’s Kitchen is generally a run down yet colorful section of New York City, with a mix of residential and industrial elements. Industrial sections of cities are generally more dangerous than your average residential neighborhood, and Hell’s Kitchen was no exception. Historically it was a densely populated and tenement area set among slaughterhouses, warehouses, and factories."
• UFO: Extraterrestrials
  The UFO: Extraterrestrials Q&A on RPGDot talks with Michal Dolezal of Chaos Concepts about UFO: Extraterrestrials, their upcoming out-of-this-world turn-based strategy game: "The story is quite important. The player gets information mainly from captured aliens. Scientists make the captured aliens speak so that the player gets information on how the aliens conquered Earth, what exactly happened on Earth, why the aliens landed on the Esperanza, why the aliens attack especially Esperanza's mines and refineries, what are the alien's weak points, where is their headquarters, what to do to get into their headquarters, where aliens have built their Starport on Earth and many other questions which I will have to keep secret."
• Dreamfall
  Minstrum.net's Dreamfall Q&A talks with Funcom's Jorgen Tharaldsen about their upcoming adventure game sequel to The Longest Journey: "Because we had to, for Funcom our goal is to be amongst the leading developers in the world, and we focus on two genres which is adventures and MMO games. To make another point & click adventure would have meant that we would have targeted the game towards a niche in the market. By opening up the target and mixing the best of point & click with lots of things from the modern action mechanics we are broadening the scope of adventure games. Adventure games used to be biggest genre of all, but because it was the same mechanics over and over it meant - especially in the US - that the following shrink down. In many countries in Europe it's still very popular, but in order to put the budget we're putting into it we had to increase and had to make what we call a modern adventure. So that's our goal, to try to innovate the genre. We should see if it works, but it looks good so far."

• Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion on Gamers With Jobs, GameSpot, Gaming Nexus, IGN, Shacknews, ToTheGame, and Voodoo Extreme.
• The Godfather on Yahoo! Video Games.
• Secret Files: Tunguska on AdventureDot.
• Übersoldier on Loadedinc.

• The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion on the Official Website. Thanks Frans.
• The Godfather on 3D Gamers.

• Microsoft takes care with Xbox in China.
• Jim Lee's Key DC Comics RPG Role.
• Halo Creator on Quest for Gamers, TV Viewers.
• Ruff Trigger: The Vanocore Conspiracy Announced.
• 360 College Hoops 2K6 gold.
• NGC Defend Themselves In Print. This controller thing is officially out of control.
• NBA Ballers Phenom Tournament is a Go.
• Diamond & Pearl To Be Released This Year.
• Sevendust Rocks Xbox Live.

• NVIDIA ForceWare 87.15 Official Beta Drivers (Windows Vista).
• NVIDIA G71, Quad-SLI and NFORCE 5 Chipset Launch Date Confirmed. Confirmed, but not definite.
• Will "Viiv" and "AMD Live" sow confusion? Isn't that the point?
• Security 'holiday is over' for Mac users, security researchers say.

• Microsoft, Nokia and Others to Support Open Gaming Architecture.
• Blackberry Hearing Ends With No Decision. On hold.
• Dragon Quest meets FF.
• Rush races for PSP.

• Search Engines Fight Copyright-Infringement Suits.
• Ruling May Undercut Google in Fight Over Its Book Scans (registration required).

• Yahoo Music exec suggests we'd all be better off without DRM.
• Justice Dept. Rejects Google's Concerns.
• Are Usenet fans vulnerable to copyright lawsuits?
• Winamp update fixes flaw.

• What they can't teach you at game design school.

• Empire Earth II on GamersInfo.net.
• Hammer & Sickle on Tacticular Cancer.
• The Regiment on SimHQ.
• Rugby 06 on LoadedInc.
• SWAT 4: The Stetchkov Syndicate (in German) on GameCaptain.de.
• ToCA Race Driver 3 on GameSpot.
• Tribal Trouble on GameShark.
• Tycoon City: New York on Computer and Video Games and EuroGamer.

• ATI AIW RADEON X1900 All-In-Wonder Video Card on DriverHeaven.net.
• Kingston 256MB microSD Card on Adrian's Rojak Pot.
• Silverstone LC16M HTPC Case on bit-tech.net.
• Socket's GPS NAV Kit on TechTastic.
• Tuniq Symmetry 1 Case on Virtual-Hideout.Net.
• Ultra Mini-Portable Hard Drive Enclosure on Hardware Hounds.
• XKROMA ATX Chrome Case on ThinkComputers.
• Xtrac Pads Mouse Mats on ProClockers.

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