Washington - The Entertainment Software Association (ESA), a trade group representing U.S. video game publishers and companies, on Thursday named Michael Gallagher as its new president.

Albany, N.Y. - New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer plans to back state legislation that would ban the sale of violent and degrading video games to minors, the New York Daily News reported.

Washington - The Entertainment Software Association (ESA), a trade group representing U.S. video game developers and publishers, announced on Monday that a federal court recently ordered the state of Louisiana to pay $91,000 in legal fees the ESA tallied during its successful challenge to the state's law banning the sale of violent games to minors.

Washington - A 27-year-old Hawaiian man has been sentenced to four months in prison after pleading guilty to charges he distributed Xbox video game consoles he had modified so they could play pirated games.