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News of the Week; September 26, 2018
GAMES ArenaNet pulls plug on in-game transactions for Guild Wars 2 players in Belgium: MMO developer joins growing list of games companies forced to take action in Belgium over recent loot box ruling Report: Guild Wars 2 in-game currency no longer available in Belgium Activision hits Spyro fan game with cease and desist order Blog: Examining the debate behind […]
Class 3 – 9/26/18; “John Milton Plays Grand Prix Legends”
Slides and video from class below. Be forewarned that there are still some minor video outages here and there that the tech are trying to figure out. Those are not particularly a big deal where there is video and the slides still remain viewable. That said by far the bigger problem is that the microphone […]
News of the Week; September 19, 2017
GAMES Valve and Ubisoft fined for breaching consumer laws in France Valve and Ubisoft fined for breach of French consumer law: Steam and Uplay latest storefronts caught up in European consumer rights violations Washington State and 15 countries team up over video game gambling concerns 15 European gambling regulators unite to tackle loot box threat: Along […]
Public Talk for the Emerging Media Lab Lecture Series on Tuesday, September 25, 2018
Just in case anyone is interested I’m giving a talk at 4 PM on Tuesday September 25, 2018 in Room 205 of the West Mall Swing Space. Everyone is welcome….See the above poster for more details…. Jon
News of the Week; September 12, 2018
GAMES EA defies Belgian loot box decision, setting up potential “gambling” lawsuit Report: EA risking prosecution after refusing to comply with Belgian loot box laws EA may go to court over loot boxes in Belgium: FIFA publisher has kept loot boxes in its games despite Belgian Gaming Commission warning Tencent to verify Chinese Honor of […]
News of the Week; September 5, 2018
GAMES Jacksonville Shooting Victim Sues EA And Venue Madden NFL 19 shooting victim sues EA, claiming negligence Jacksonville shooting survivor files lawsuit against EA and others for negligence Jacksonville shooting victim suing EA for negligence: Also seeking damages from seven other defendants, including tournament venue Chicago Pizza and Jacksonville Landing mall EA donates $1 million to […]
Class 2 – 9/12/18; “If Picasso had painted a round object…” + Ian Verchere
Slides and video are below. There were a few scary moments where we thought the video had disappeared but it was found. Thanks to Tom Dudas for all his hard work on this. There is some missing video, but audio throughout – which is more important. Also for some reason I don’t understand Ian’s slides […]
Website tech help @ end of this Wednesday’s class
Richard Tape of UBC’s Centre for Teaching, Learning & Technology will be joining us tomorrow tomorrow after class at 12:15 PM in B101 to help anyone who has had technical challenges or doubts about getting onto the course website, or anything related. Richard has been a pivotal part of improving the website and making it […]
Class 2 Guest Speaker: Ian Verchere
IMHO Ian Verchere is the most influential active creator of games in B.C. He has been a force to reckon with for decades, and if we are lucky, will be for decades to come. He has been a “must-see” part of this course for many years. His talks are always deeply and passionately rooted in […]
The first video-game? Spacewar! No it wasn’t.
During my first talk last week I mentioned the game “Spacewar!” as the first video-game, said it was invented in the late 1950’s at Stanford. I also said it was multiplayer. Of those facts, I got two right. The game itself was called “Spacewar!” and it was multiplayer (two person). But it wasn’t invented in […]