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Nintendo stikes again
Earlier this week, Nintendo issued DMCA takedowns to SteamGridDB, a community site that hosts user-created images to be used in on Steam. Although the site is primarily meant to provide an aesthetically-pleasing alternative for fans, Nintendo games are not available on Steam and therefore would only be there as emulated ROMs downloaded without Nintendo’s […]
Videogame Emulation Presentation
Hi everyone, I have uploaded my presentation on Videogame Emulation and Copyright here since it snowed out yesterday. All the best for your exams and happy holidays! Sze Perng https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1MbjIiipvD_jSH5nz7Drw6y1J7WnXs6hl?usp=sharing
Update on Call of Duty’s Code of Conduct
I came across this tweet from a Call of Duty news account. It seems the Code of Conduct is actually carrying some weight after all. Take a look (I’ve redacted the expletives).
Sexual Assault in the MetaVerse – Presentation Video – By: Charis Liu & Cailean Paskall
Hey all, You can find below the link to mine and Charis’ presentation! We hope you enjoy it and we would love to hear your comments. Feel free to comment on this post, the Youtube video, or even reach out to us! However, I would insert a trigger warning here. There is also a trigger […]
Valorant Esports Contracts
Similar to my last post detailing contract issues in LoL, the Valorant season has also ended and there is a lot of team restructuring going on. A fundamental change has occurred to the structure of esports within Valorant, in which Riot announced there will be three international leagues with 10 partnered teams each for the […]
The EU is finally paying attention to the video game industry… better late than never.
The VG industry is significant in Europe; it is estimated to be worth more than 21 billion US dollars and it keeps growing every year. We know that a lot of the industry activity emerges from Pacific Asia and North America but let’s not forget that Europe is home for major tech companies such as […]
Emulating Videogames slides
Hi everyone, just sharing the slides for my presentation next Wednesday about Emulating videogames and copyright infringement. Have a great weekend ahead! Emulation Presentation Sze Perng
China easing gaming crackdown?
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-63730316 https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/23/china-shows-signs-of-easing-its-intense-crackdown-on-the-gaming-sector.html In Amit and I’s presentation about video game regulation, we briefly discussed China’s gaming regulatory regime. China has some of the strictest video game regulation in the world. As discussed in class last week, China restricts the amount of time minors can play video games, with youth gamers only being able to play […]
Games, A Platform for Social Change?
The Wired has an interesting article that speaks to how games have the “power to create social change” (see: https://www.wired.com/story/games-for-change-google-nonprofit-fun-games-social-good/). The example that Wired gives is King Kingdom which “teaches players about internet safety, like building strong passwords and only interacting with trusted friends online” (see: https://www.wired.com/story/games-for-change-google-nonprofit-fun-games-social-good/). This article pointed me to a non-profit: Games for Change. (image […]