News of the Week; June 26, 2013

1. EA’s timing argument thrown out in Madden lawsuit

2. Appeals court sides with Nintendo in Wii Balance Board patent lawsuit

3. Long, unhappy post on Hart v. EA

4. Ellen Page Says The Last Of Us’ Ellie “Ripped Off My Likeness”

5. Naughty Dog accused of swiping Last of Us art

6. Saints Row IV effectively banned under new Australian rating system

7. Modern Warfare

8. XBox 180: Microsoft No Longer Dream the DRM

9. Big data comes to games. How one company sees the future in personalized play

10. Canadians Shifting Gaming Addiction from Console to Mobile, Study Says

11. Watch A Fox Reporter Demolish A Hackneyed Anti-Game Argument

12. Make Me Walk, Make Me Talk, Do Whatever You Please – Barbie and Exceptions by Rebecca Tushnet (Georgetown Law)

13. Indie dev skips PAX citing Penny Arcade artist’s comments

14. Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society Launches “Cookie Clearinghouse” to Enable User Choice for Online Tracking

15. German Court Holds Google Responsible for Its Search Suggestions

16. Recommendation to European Court Favors Google in Privacy Battle

17. Apple and DOJ release slide decks from closing arguments in ebook trial

18. And in the “can’t stop laughing” department – Kaplit to Trenk domain name correspondence

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