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Titan Cancellation Costs Blizzard Millions
As a follow-up to today’s talk about video game production cycles, here’s some insight into just how much the cancellation of a game can cost: http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2014-09-23-titan-cancellation-cost-blizzard-usd50m-or-more-say-analysts
Games Are Not Coffee Mugs: Episodes 1 – 4
Professor William Ford of John Marshall Law School in Chicago has done game scholarship and pedagogy a great service. Professor Ford has been producing a great webcast series called “Games Are Not Coffee Mugs” (the first episode of which has already been posted here). All four episodes are important, useful and well worth watching. You […]
Video-Blog News of the Week; September 17, 2014
Actually talking law, not social issues. Try not to be too shocked… jon
Paper Categories, 2nd Edition
Last year at about this time I outlined possible paper topics after reviewing the various papers submitted over the years. What follows is a category listing of papers from last year, including some papers related to video games from other courses. As before just add the […]
Week 4 Guest Speaker: Ian Verchere of Roadhouse Interactive
Ian Verchere who is co-founder and the Chief Creative of Roadhouse Interactive, a 50-person production and development company shaping the future of mobile, tablet and online games will be our guest next class. Ian will share his views of ongoing dialectic between creating and the law.Ian has been a great friend of the course, providing […]
Videogames and the Spirit of Capitalism
This is a terrific talk Paolo Pedercini of Carnegie Mellon University gave remotely to Indicade East 2014. It is hugely thought provoking in its interpretation of games as rationalizations of capitalism. I don’t agree, hewing to Jung’s view of games (see Talk 1) as a way of being in touch with our instinctive self. Of […]
Gaming’s Indie Explosion: Chris Charla
This is a wonderful short video that serves a couple of related purposes in the context of the course: 1. It is a cool and inspirational history of games, especially indie games; and 2. In the context of all our discussion about the creative role of the gamer, it represents a powerful reminder of how […]
Week 3 – 9/17/14: “John Milton Plays Grand Prix Legends” & Roch Ripley
Here are the videos and slides. No big glitches this week – a short lag of a couple of seconds off the top. The good news is that we all stood where we were supposed to (except for Roch’s “drift” at the beginning of his talk 😉 jon […]
News of the Week; September 17, 2014
GAMES 1. Bomb Threat Targeted Anita Sarkeesian, Gaming Awards Last March + FBI investigating death threats against Feminist Frequency creator Sarkeesian 2. Georgia Man Murdered for PS4 3. King Settles Lawsuit with 6Waves Over Game Clones 4. Davis v. EA Argued Before Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals + Legal Scholar: ‘Davis v. Electronic Arts’ Perfect for Supreme Court Review 5. Xbox Live Privacy […]
Video-Blog; News of the Week September 10, 2014
This week’s take: EA v. NFL. EA wins by a knock-out (how’s that for mixing metaphors). jon