"I didn't want to do a film that could be lumped into the black hip- hop-shoot-em-up-gangster-drug movie, " Lee says.

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Young gamers looking for some shoot-em-up escape will probably still hit the theaters.

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The Xbox 360 shoot-em-up took the top game prize at the Game Developers Choice Awards which form part of the week-long GDC show.

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The timing for a primed, pumped, itchy-trigger-finger shoot-em-up leaves something to be desired, no doubt, but with Nicolas Cage unaccountably AWOL this January, Arnie has the knucklehead R-rated action field pretty much to himself.

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Glossing over the mechanicals of the game, production, budgets and infrastructure, what jumped out was the values he assigned to the making of the popular shoot-em-up game: attitude and passion for the game were topped the list.

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It's not clear if another company has the shoot-'em-up computer game rights, or the merchandising of Craig Whyte cuddly toys.

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Whether shoot-'em-up video games can incite violence has been a long-running debate among the public as well as in clinical psychology.

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The graphics on display during the 17 minutes of footage running on a PC were more photorealistic than previous games in the popular military shoot-'em-up series, hinting at what's to come on Sony's PlayStation 4 and Microsoft's rumored Xbox successor.

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