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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. […]
Week 12 – 11/19/14: “Terminators, Orcs & Other Anomalies” & Adrian Crook
Thanks to Adrian Crook for a very useful overview of the opportunities and cycles of the video game industry. Video and slides below. jon
Law 423B UBC Open Badges Project Survey
The addition of badges to the Video Game Law website has no doubt been one of the more pleasant surprises of this academic season. It was only in late August 2014 that the possibility of the course being included in the Open Badges UBC Project even emerged. In that context it is perhaps a […]
Video-Blog News of the Week; November 19, 2014
This week: Some strange symmetry’s of control and attempted control in the video game world. jon
Week 13 Guest Speaker: Anoop Desai of Electronic Arts
Anoop Desai will be our final guest speaker for this video game law cohort. Anoop is Director, Business Affairs/Development at Electronic Arts (Canada) Inc. and has been with EA since 2007. Previously he was with Next Level Games and practiced law with Alexander, Holburn, Beaudin & Lang from 2001 to […]