News of the Week; September 18, 2013

1. 3DRealms Drops Duke Nukem Forever Lawsuit Against Gearbox, Makes a Public Apology

2. Why the University of Washington Wants Its Surgeons to Play Videogames

3. Fox News Offers Two-Part Feature on the Bad Influence of Violent Video Games

4. Fox & Friends Co-Host Elisabeth Hasselbeck: We Need National Registry for Video Games

5. Manifesto: The 21st Century Will Be Defined By Games

6. Massachusetts Lawmaker Pushes for Video Game Tax Credits

7. 38 Studios loan under investigation by SEC

8. Gamers unleash swarms of nanoparticles on tumours

9. Journal of Virtual Worlds Research – issue focused on legal issues

10. Nevada District Court Finds No Reasonable Expectation of Privacy in Private Twitter Posts

11. Girl’s Suicide Points to Rise in Apps Used by Cyberbullies

12. The End of Kindness: Weev and the Cult of the Angry Young Man

13. What Women Don’t Want

14. Vituality in the Sphere of Economics by Vili Lehdonvirta

15.  Should Crowdfunding Be Regulated?

16. Content Creators Use Piracy to Gauge Consumer Interest

17. FBI Admits It Controlled Tor Servers Behind Mass Malware Attack

18. Privacy Substitutes by J. Mayer & A. Narayanan (Stanford Law Review)

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