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Army & Air Force Exchange Service's Commander Maj. Gen. Bruce Casella, told Kotaku, "Out of respect to those we serve, we will not be stocking [Medal of Honor].We regret any inconvenience this may cause authorized shoppers, but are optimistic that they will understand the sensitivity to the life and death scenarios this product presents as entertainment. As a military command with a retail mission, we serve a very unique customer base that has, or possibly will, witness combat in real life."

Electronic Arts is bringing the Medal of Honor game series (the first of the new generation of World War II shooter) in a game set in the WOT. Some people are annoyed that gamers are able to play as the Taliban. From the story: I was glad to see that EA was resurrecting the Medal of Honor series and turning it over to the DICE team. I suspected that they might try to top the excesses of Modern Warfare, but I haven't seen enough of it to know either way. Neither has Britain’s Defence Secretary Liam Fox, but that hasn't...

Charles S. Roberts, the founder of Avalon Hill and the inventor of the modern wargame, passed away last week.

Cashing in on election fever, EA today announced that, as part of an upcoming update for Mercenaries 2, both Sarah Palin and Barack Obama will be made available as playable characters

About seventy-five percent of game industry presidential campaign donations went to democrats, based on a sampling of developers and publisher donations over the past two years obtained from the Federal Election Commission. Kotaku looked at presidential campaign donations for nine companies from January of 2007 through the end of July, 2008. The companies included were Activision, Blizzard, Electronic Arts, Nintendo, Sony Computer Entertainment of America, Take-Two, THQ, Ubisoft and Valve. The database showed that the nine companies donated a total of about $97,800 to ten candidates, about $61,000 of which went to democratic candidates, while about $36,700 went to republican...

<p>Something amazing happened yesterday. I attended a rally of a bunch of political activists backing an unpopular candidate who is rapidly sinking in the polls -- and they weren't Republicans.</p> <p>The rally was held yesterday afternoon by union activists who are supporting Bob Torricelli, the Democrat who is the senior senator from New Jersey. It featured U.S. Senate majority leader Tom Daschle. It followed a far more successful rally earlier in the day featuring the President of the United States.</p>

<p>Some of Bob Torricelli's critics have taken to describing the senator's recent pattern of slipperiness and evasion as "Clintonesque."</p> <p>They do not give him enough credit. As perhaps New Jersey's leading booster, I want to proudly proclaim that our guy perfected this sort of thing long before that rube from Arkansas. Torricelli is not Clintonesque. Bill Clinton was Torricelliesque.</p>

Excerpt: Corporate shill: According to Fortune magazine, Jordan's endorsements constitute the greatest assemblage of sports sponsorships ever. But Jordan has shown little concern about the social implications of his sponsorships. He hardly batted an eye at the accusations of wage, labor and health abuses by Jordan-sponsor Nike in its treatment of employees in Southeast Asia. Political and race compromiser: Former Charlotte, N.C., mayor Harvey Gantt, an African-American, twice ran and lost U.S. Senate challenges to unseat Jesse Helms. When approached by Gantt's campaign for an endorsement, Jordan replied dismissively, "Republicans buy sneakers, too."