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Week 13 – 11/26/14: “The Ethical Underpinnings of Video-Games”
Thanks to the always thoughtful Anoop Desai of EA for giving us some remarkable insights into the future of how we may game. For this final week of this years class only videos of my presentation and slides will be available. They are below. jon
“Road to VR” article about our Oculus Rift class
Just click on the image above. Some Reddit comments can also be found at: http://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/2n2nqx/vrchat_ubc_law_423b_education_in_vr/ & at http://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/2no4ex/vr_chat_used_to_deliver_one_of_the_first/ jon
Video-Blog News of the Week; November 26, 2014
This week marks the end of weekly video-blogs for news of the week. With classes ended will now switch to a monthly format going forward. Corporate interests and their impact on players and consumers is the theme of this episode. jon
News of the Week; November 26, 2014
GAMES 1. Activision Blizzard Settles With Shareholders Over Vivendi Stock Repurchase Plan 2. Activision using copyright notices to take down Call of Duty exploit videos: YouTubers may get infringement strikes for showing glitches and cheating methods. 3. FTC Hammers Sony For Misleading Advertising 4. Assassin’s Creed Unity Season Pass ‘discontinued’, free game offered: Ubisoft to offer free game to […]
Internetting While Female: A Conversation with Anita Sarkeesian, Carolyn Petit & Katherine Cross
As #gamergate seems to be receding, here is an excellent starting point for further reflection and legitimate research. It is a panel discussion that pretty well exclusively talks about games and games culture from GaymerX2 earlier this year. It covers myriad subjects associated with sexism in games and with many of those who created […]
Hybrid Thinking
My takeaway from this TED presentation is that one day we will have the opportunity/technology to have Google or some other internet search engine planted directly into our brain. In the context of videogame law and the scheme of the course, I have a couple questions and thoughts. Will the internet be able to track what I […]
Future reflections
After our last class today I thought I’d reflect a little on what has really struck me during this class and where it might go in the next iteration. I had no idea video games had so many legal issues. I didn’t realise how much money is in the business and how many creating/controlling aspects […]
An awesome short film about our Oculus Rift class(es)
Jesse Joudrey passed along this very well done piece about our Rift experiment two weeks ago. Thanks to everyone in the two “real” classrooms and the one “virtual” classroom who participated. Confusing, isn’t it? 😉 jon
A Brief History of Graphics
If I remember from my time in Video Game Law several years ago, this is the time of year when there is lots of time to spare. Law students, having done all their studying and completed their papers weeks in advance, long for something to occupy their time. There is hope! Here is a five part […]
Games Are Not Coffee Mugs, Episode 5
Professor William K. Ford of The John Marshall Law School just sent me a link to the latest episode in his excellent video series on games. It is an interview with a past guest in our course, Patrick Sweeney, on the very interesting and somewhat fraught subject of “The Video Game Industry and Hollywood”. Enjoy. […]