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Pokemon dethroned?
Japan’s game industry has seen some change over the past months — while the Pokemon games have been been the best-selling games since the 90’s, Animal Crossing: New Horizons (ACNH) has displaced their long reign and has become the most sold game according to Nintendo’s latest financial report. The success of ACNH can be heavily […]
Video Game Law Presentation – Lovneet Aujla
Hello class! Please find attached the link to my presentation. I chose to discuss my research topic, corporate social responsibility in the video game context. https://youtu.be/2jp6CKsIcRA Also find attached my Presentation Outline
“Contract Jail” in Esports
After the League of Legends World Championship concluded, many of the pro esports teams have begun to restructure their rosters for the next season. Restructuring in this sense refers to adding players that have performed well and dropping/benching players that have not performed well. A recent topic of conversation has been the way that one […]
Call of Duty Moderators Can Permanently Mute Toxic Players
More on Call of Duty, and in follow up to the previous post about Call of Duty’s Code of Conduct, I found it interesting to see recent articles about Activision adding a system where moderators can permanently mute toxic players with its new “overhauled” reporting system. Players being muted on text and chat functions is […]
Call of Duty removing maps due to their similarity with real life places?
Modern Warfare 2 (2022) just released a few weeks ago. Many players are upset that a map (and supposedly another is about to be removed for similar reasons) in the multiplayer was removed due to legal issues. For reference, a map is the virtual battleground that multiplayer matches are played on, typically the game has […]
Founder of Oculus Creates Murderous VR Headset
https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2022/11/08/oculus-founder-makes-vr-headset-that-will-actually-kill-you-if-you-die-in-a-game/?sh=1e3d07c75a16 Founder of Oculus, Palmer Luckey, announced that he has created a custom VR headset that will kill the user if they were to die in a game they are playing. The headset has charges that will explode upon death of the player which will result in the “destroying the brain of the user”. I […]
The Chronicles of Elyria Lawsuit and its Virtual Real Estate Controversy
On October 3, 2022 the United States District Court, Western District of Washington dismissed a class action complaint made by lead plaintiff James Falls against Soulbound Studios LLC, the developer of a would-be MMO Chronicles of Elyria. Falls spent over $20,000 on in-game content in support of the development of the game, which was cancelled […]
Do ebooks dream of the burning of Z-Library?
Just last Friday, November 4, 2022, marked the fall of Z-Library, an online free ebook repository hailed as the internet’s largest “shadow library”. Shadow libraries are online databases of readily available content, generally free of charge, offering sources normally inaccessible to readers due to financial costs or membership requirements. Z-library once boasted a collection of […]
EU Investigates Microsoft-Activision Deal
The European Union has formally launched an investigation into Microsoft’s $69 billion takeover of Activision Blizzard, citing the potential distortion of fair competition as the reason for doing so. The development comes at the heels of Activision’s latest launch, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, which has already generated over $1 billion in sales. Sony […]
the Cyberpunk series: form decides content?
September 13, 2022 marked the premiere of the web anime series Cyberpunk: Edgerunners on Netflix. The anime series, produced by Studio Trigger, is based on the video game Cyberpunk 2077 developed by CD Projekt Red. The synopsis of the show reads “a standalone episode story about a street kid trying to survive in a technology […]