Activision sales reach $3 Billion Gamespot.com announced.

How do they do it?

By restraining the urges to have any original ideas of course!

Thats what the video game industry needs these days, more sequels. Forget creative new fresh ideas like Battle of the Bands, let's get another Guitar Hero! And lord knows none of us have had our fill of World War 2 shooters yet. *Groan*.

News from Yahoo! is that 75 students were arrested for dealing cocaine and other drugs. One went so far as to send a mass text message advertising this.

Thats all well and good, but one thing they forgot to mention: How can we blame video games for this?

The obvious thought is Grand Theft Auto 4, a game full of the promotion of violence and drugs, but let's not stop there. Following is a look at a few other ways we can pin this one on video games!

To do so I present an argument with myself:

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Over at Reuters.com it is being reported that Take-Two, the publisher of Grand Theft Auto 4, is suing the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA), because they pulled a violent ad campaign featuring the GTA4 game.

I think speak for everyone when I say, good for Take-Two.

Over at Rockband.com Harmonix has announced additional track packs for systems that lack downloadable content options.

If you ask us, Nintendo should be ashamed of themselves. Getting looped in with a previous generation system all because of some irrational fear of the web.

Gamespot.com reports that Activision and Vivendi will not be involved in E3 this year, further advancing the fallout the top-dog gaming conference has been experiencing lately. The socio-political ramifications of this run deep, specifically, less leaked Guitar Hero videos!