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Iranian Government Backs Anti-Drug Game
As part of a bid to educate its youth about the dangers of drugs, the Iranian government will turn toward a wide range of cultural solutions, including development of an anti-drug videogame.Iran’s Fars...
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Navid Khonsari, a former writer and director for Rockstar Games, is working on an interesting game that retells the real story of the 1979 U.S. Embassy takeover in Tehran, Iran. Khonsari is responsible...
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Former GTA Director Plans Game Based on Iran's Islamic Revolution
The former director of the Grand Theft Auto series, Navid Khonsari, is working on a new game that will explore Iran's Islamic Revolution. The game is called 1979 and will be set in an open world where...
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Iran Bans Battlefield 3
Iran has banned Battlefield 3 from being sold in the country because it depicts a U.S. military assault against the city of Tehran using tanks and aircraft. This news comes from the Iranian IT...
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Iranian Supreme Court Overturns American Game Developer's Conviction, Orders...
In a shocking turn of events, Iran's highest court has overturned the conviction of alleged American spy Amir Mirza Hekmati, ruling that his death sentence cannot stand because it found "shortcomings"...
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State-Funded Iranian Videogame Resurrects Salman Rushdie Fatwa
A game funded by the Iranian government picks the scab off a wound that most youngsters in the country probably either forgot or didn't know about it the first place. The game is called "The Stressful...
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World of Warcraft Access in Iran Cut Off Due to U.S. Trade Sanctions
Blizzard Entertainment has been forced to cut off access to its popular MMO World of Warcraft to subscribers in Iran, due to ongoing (in an earlier version of the story we used the term "new" to...
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U.S. State Department Calls for Release of Game Developer Held in Iran for...
The U.S. State Department has called on the government of Iran to release Amir Mirza Hekmati, a game developer who was arrested and already stood trial once for being a spy for the United States...
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Iranian Government Effectively Bans The Sale of ArmA 3 in the Country
Fans of Bohemia Interactive's popular simulation-based military shooter series ArmA in Iran who were hoping to get their hands on the company's next game, ArmA 3, are officially out of luck. Though...
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Truman National Security Project Offers Web Game Exploring the Ramifications...
The Truman National Security Project plans to launch a browser-based game this week that explores the United States' political and military involvement with Iran, according to a report in Defense News....
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Iranian League of Legends Tournament Bans Female Characters
The reality of living under a government like Iran is never so apparent as when a group of gamers is trying to set up a competition that involves playable female characters. According to this Kotaku...
View ArticleKickstarter for Political Thriller '1979 Revolution: Black Friday' Launches
Former Rockstar Games developer Navid Khonsari and multimedia company iNK Stories have launched a crowd-funding campaign for the politically-themed action adventure game, 1979 Revolution: Black Friday....
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1979 REVOLUTION Fails to Meet Funding Goal
The Kickstarter campaign for the politically themed adventure game 1979 REVOLUTION ended yesterday, falling short of its goal. The game managed to generate $304,741 from over a thousand backers, put...
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Report: Iranian Man Arrested by Government for 'Kill Dictators' Game on...
While we have no way to confirm it, one of our readers claims that a man whose game recently launched on Kongregate (owned by GameStop) has been arrested by the Iranian government and jailed. The game...
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'The Return of Mokhtar' Urges Players to Put Iranian Reformists to Death
New Delhi Television highlights a new online game that lets players shoot opposition figures involved in the disputed 2009 Iranian presidential election. The online game, which NDTV describes as a Doom...
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