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» Peter A. Allard School of Law » Home » 2013 » December » 06 » News of the Week; December 4, 2013

News of the Week; December 4, 2013

By Jon Festinger on December 6, 2013

1. The Player-Authors Project by Greg Lastowka

2. Arrest Made in San Francisco PS4 Killing

3. Why Gamers Can’t Stop Playing First-Person Shooters

4. Are Computer Games “Addictive?”

5. No Girls Allowed: Unraveling the story behind the stereotype of video games being for boys

6. New Barbie Game Is The Stuff Of Nightmares

7. Game Developers Pirate Own Game, Offer it as a Free Torrent

8. Koch Media Acquires Fishlabs

9. Videogame installation combines physical and digital play

10. A Game So Bad It Was Canceled After Release

11. ACTA about to be quietly written into Canadian law

12. German Court Tells Wikimedia Foundation That It’s Liable For Things Users Write

13. Amazon’s petition against collecting New York sales tax rejected by US Supreme Court

14. FTC workshop panelists rethink privacy and security norms for the “Internet of Things”

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