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News of the Week; October 26, 2016
GAMES Game studio hits Hasbro with cloning lawsuit Rockstar clears out “illegitimately gained” GTA Online cash: Developer also tightens up ban and suspension policy for the hack-addled game. Rockstar beefs up suspension policy, takes in-game cash from cheaters Everything We Know About Nintendo Switch Nintendo Switch officially revealed Nintendo Switch heralds the end of the handheld era […]
News of the Week; October 19, 2016
GAMES Popular YouTubers plead not guilty to FIFA gambling offences eSports taking viewership away from real sports – Newzoo: Research firm finds that 76% of eSports enthusiasts state that their eSports viewing is taking away from hours they used to spend on viewing sports CCP cracking down on EVE Online gambling sites: CCP has updated its EULA […]
News of the Week; October 12, 2016
GAMES Oculus Founder Skips Company Event To Avoid Being A ‘Distraction’: “Palmer absolutely decided that he was not going to be here.” Oculus’s big event keynote had one noticeable omission—founder Palmer LuckeyConsumer spend on VR to hit $11.2 billion by 2020 – IHS Markit John Carmack says VR devs are “coasting on novelty” Fallout 4 and Skyrim mods […]
News of the Week; October 5, 2016
GAMES Court dismisses class action lawsuit against Valve over CS:GO gambling Federal Court Rejects Online Gambling Lawsuit Against Valve–McLeod v. Valve Washington state authority orders Valve to stop allowingCS:GO skin gambling Valve threatened by Washington State Gambling Commission – CS:GO skins controversy continues for the Steam platform holder Pokémon Go creator sued by The Hague over “nuisance” players […]
Legal Contradictions Manifest in Video Game Worlds: Copyright through the Post-Structuralist Looking Glass
In the spring I was invited by my colleague Gaetano Dimita (http://www.law.qmul.ac.uk/staff/dimita.html) of The School of Law, Queen Mary University of London to participate in the second edition of an academic conference he organizes called “More Than Just A Game: Interactive Entertainment & Intellectual Property Law”. The conference, which took place on April 8, 2016 […]
News of the Week; September 28, 2016
GAMES Palmer Luckey: The Facebook Near-Billionaire Secretly Funding Trump’s Meme Machine – Palmer Luckey—founder of Oculus—is funding a Trump group that circulates dirty memes about Hillary Clinton. Oculus Rift inventor Palmer Luckey is funding Trump’s racist meme machine: Admits involvement with pro-Trump nonprofit, deletes Reddit account. Insomniac, other devs condemn Palmer Luckey’s support of pro-Trump […]