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• News: Prison Service to ban 18-rated games
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• Prisons to ban adult-rated games
  news.bbc.co.uk Adult prisoners in England and Wales are to be banned from playing 18-rated computer games.
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• UK Prisons Banning All 18-Rated Video Games
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• 18-rated games are for adults shocker
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• news: Aus gov pressured for 18 rating (platform: NONE)
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• news: UK Gov calls for stronger ratings enforcement (platform: NONE)
  eurogamer.net Senior politicians back calls for crackdown on sale of 18-rated games to children. (1 comments)
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• UK Prison service spends nearly $450,000 on Playstation's
  maxconsole.net According to reports, the UK Prison service has spent £221,726 on video game consoles and software to keep criminals entertained. Previously, ministers had admitted to spending only £10,000 on such entertainment machines.
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• Boston transit system bans M rated game ads!
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• Mature rated game sales fall, 8.5 out of 10 games sold suitabe for under 13's
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• How the ESRB Rates Games
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• Sony aims to slash 10,000 jobs
  infoworld.com (InfoWorld) - Sony aims to cut its costs by 18 million, eliminating 20 percent of product models and slashing 10,000 jobs by March 2008, said Howard Stringer, chairman and chief executive officer (CEO)
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