GAMES
1. As The Mod Turns: The Latest In The Ongoing Minecraft ‘Bukkit’ Saga
2. Report: Microsoft in Talks to Buy Mojang for $2 Billion
3. Destiny day-one shipments top $500 million
4. Sega Takes Aim at Gearbox in Latest ‘Aliens: Colonial Marines’ Court Filing
+ Sega Also Has Copyright Complaints Against Hi Score Girl Manga
5. Pro Music Artists/Reps Force Shutdown Of Awesome Fan-Music Contest For Video Game
6. IGDA Working With FBI to Combat Developer Harassment
+ To fair-minded proponents of #GamerGate:
+ #GamerGate: Here’s why everybody in the video game world is fighting
8. Zoe Quinn’s Depression Quest (The New Yorker)
10. EA Sports to Remove Ray Rice from ‘Madden NFL 15’ Roster in Future Update
11. Microsoft to replace noisy Xbox One units
12. Rovio: Leading the way on gender balance
13. How ‘Minecraft’ is Encouraging Children to Read More
15. Study: Swedish Children Learn English Better Through Playing Games
16. Engines of Horror: How Video Games Are Confronting Our Darkest Subconscious
17. First-Person Temple Run Makes Samsung’s VR Headset Terrifying
18. The US Army Has a New Laser Cannon, And It Works With an Xbox Controller
19. ESPN boss declares eSports is “Not A Sport”
+ eSports will be bigger than hockey – ESL CEO
20. Research: Winning Isn’t Everything
22. New research suggests deep learning could improve AI in video games
23. EA: We Never Want to Be Named Worst U.S. Company Again
24. Several Robin Williams NPCs Spotted in ‘Warlords of Draenor’ Beta
25. Epic on Unreal Engine 4: “It’s the right time to be democratic”
26. Unreal Engine 4 free for schools, students
27. The evolution of the role-playing game: from table top to video games, and back again
28. Games Law History: the first ever games patent
29. Exploring The Psychology Of Civil Forfeiture Through Video Games
DIGITAL
30. Parents to get full refund for kids’ app purchases under $19M Google Play settlement
31. App Store revenue up 70 YoY
34. Meet the shadowy tech brokers that deliver your data to the NSA
35. Does obtaining leaked data from a misconfigured website violate the CFAA?
36. How to make sure your app complies with the Safe Harbor rules
37. Horizon: The defenders of anonymity on the internet
38. Google plans debates on ‘right to be forgotten’
40. Leak Of Complete CETA Text Shows Canada Fought Off EU Demands For More Extreme Copyright Rules
41. NLRB protects Facebook “Like” and signals standard for analyzing social media posts
42. NVIDIA Sues Samsung and Qualcomm, Tries To Get Samsung Galaxy Devices Blocked From The U.S.
43. The Ramifications of Alice: A Conversation with Mark Lemley
44. When does an employer own copyright in a photograph made by an employee?
45. Apple Denies Any Breach Of Its Systems In Celebrity Photo Leak
+ Inside AnonIB, Where Hacking Is a Sport and Women’s Bodies Are the Prize
+ A Letter To Jennifer Lawrence
+ Every Man Is Responsible For His Own Soul (Reddit CEO)
+ Why We’re Winning: Social Justice Warriors And The New Culture War
46. Etsy CEO to Businesses: If Net Neutrality Perishes, We Will Too
47. How Should We Program Computers to Deceive?
48. Our Cyborg Future: Law and Policy Implications (The Brookings Institution)
49. There’s Something Rotten In The State Of Social Media
50. Error Correction in the Digital Age
+ Brain-to-brain communication is finally possible. It’s just very clunky.
53. When We Play Video Games, Who Are We?
CONSTRAINTS
54. Disney Officially Seeks To Block Deadmau5’s Trademark Claim
55. Court says Facebook “likes” not a form of IP right
56. Hacked naked celebrity photos to be exhibited by artist in Florida
57. Reddit at a crossroads: The inevitable clash between free speech and a desire for funding
58. Zappos is going holacratic: no job titles, no managers, no hierarchy
59. The New Luddites: Why Former Digital Prophets Are Turning Against Tech
60. How YouTube inspired a new generation of DIY makers
61. Software is Eating the Camera: How software is changing the form and substance of cameras and photos
62. Canadian Internet TV Is Starting To Beat the CBC
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