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Could Playing Videogames Be a War Crime?

Could Playing Videogames Be a War Crime?

Updated 6:28 p.m.

Is your Xbox illegal under the Geneva Convention? Could you be hauled before the International Criminal Court for playing shooter games like Battlefield 3 or Call of Duty?

Absolutely not, says a spokesman for the International Committee of the Red Cross. “War crimes are serious violations of the laws of war committed in real life situations, not on virtual battlefields,” the ICRC’s Bijan Frederic Farnoudi tells Danger Room.

But Farnoudi’s colleagues aren’t quite so sure. They believe that virtual worlds and real war crimes could conceivably be linked — especially if an army uses...

Report: About 60,000 E-Votes Uncounted in NY Election Last Year

The confusing screen that voters in New York were shown last year when optical scan machines determined they had cast too many votes in a race. Courtesy of Brennan Center for Justice

About 60,000 e-votes went uncounted in New York state elections last year and may be due to poor design of optical scan machines, according to a report released Tuesday.

The same flaw could lead to a loss of 100,000 votes in the presidential election next year, the group warns, if the problem isn’t fixed.

The report (.pdf), released by the Democracy Program at New York University’s Brennan Center for Justice, says t...

Review: Serious Sam 3 Is Hard-Core, Difficult, Lovely

Serious Sam 3 is an unapologetically difficult shooter.
Image: Croteam

Serious Sam 3 is a classical first-person shooter, much like the first two games of the series, or even something like Painkiller. You are a man who can carry a large number of guns, and you are presented with a series of bad guys you need to kill with those guns. You’ll see many weapons return from the previous games in the series, along with a few new guns that are still familiar from other video games. There are no wheels being reinvented here; the developers at Croteam clearly want you to understand each weapon the s...

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