I am NOT making this up: "Rome, December 18 - Dante's Inferno, the first book of the Divine Comedy, is soon to be released as an action-adventure video game by the company better known for its FIFA Football and James Bond game series. The new game developed by America's Electronic Arts (EA) follows the structure of Dante's 14th-century masterpiece, turning his nine circles of hell -...

The winners of this year's BAFTA Video Games Awards were announced on Tuesday. Winners included: Game Award - Call Of Duty 4Best Game - Super Mario GalaxyStory & Character- Call Of Duty 4 The writer of Call Of Duty 4 is Jesse Stern, who also writes for TV and film. Here's an interview with him...

CBS reports that Scottish gamemakers are coming out with "Rendition: Guantanamo," a video game for XBox. Moazzam Begg, a Briton detained at the U.S. military prison for three years, advised the company and helped them depict Gitmo realistically.  The game takes place in the future, after Guantanamo's closure and the player uses guns to defeat mercenaries trying to keep them as ...

Games publisher Konami is facing an outcry from military personnel and those who have lost family in Iraq after announcing a video game set in the conflict.

The US video game industry has received Supreme Court backing in the debate over whether its violent titles cause teens to act aggressively

In Sweden, Police arrest a 38 year-old man on suspicion of carrying out more than a dozen gun attacks on people with ethnic minority backgrounds. In parliament, Labour MP Keith Vaz tries to blame the shootings on a video game...

Commenting on today’s [Thursday] CMS Select Committee report and the launch of the Government consultation on the video game age rating, Liberal Democrat Shadow Culture, Media and Sport Secretary, Don Foster said: "Everyone now accepts that we need a single classification system for video games that makes clear, especially to parents, the suitability of different games. "But the Government&r...

A controversial video game allowing players to fight in the battle of Falluja in the Iraq war has been pulled.

Modern Warfare 2: MA Disclaimer: I do not play video games, and the only snippet that I have seen of the recently released Modern Warfare 2 is in the video below. I am not here to provide my moral judgement of this game which appears to be incredibly violent, and that seems to my untrained eye to reward that violence as being the key in the players quest to "win". This genre of game is now an ingr...

Defence Secretary Liam Fox has urged shops to ban a computer game where players can act as the Taleban and kill British troops. Dr Fox said he was "disgusted" that Med