GAMES
1. Bandai Namco overhauls US executive team
2. Over 12,000 sign petition to cancel Metroid Prime: Federation Force
3. Game-over HTTPS defects in dozens of Android apps expose user passwords
4. Sony’s Yoshida admits he was nervious about a female lead in Horizon
5. HoloLens’ field-of-view may be a problem without a solution
6. Warren Spector on E3: VR is a fad
7. Hitman dev: Season pass “wrong approach” for gamers
8. Nintendo should pull out of E3 entirely
9. It’s time for game financing to catch up with distribution – Marks
10. The average game on Steam sells only 32,000 copies
11. Original vision for Xbox One hasn’t changed – Xbox CMO
12. Bethesda wins E3 coverage race – ICO
13. Unity’s users can now access its internal roadmap
14. Roblox integrates SuperAwesome’s ad platform
15. Unity’s users can now access its internal roadmap
16. Scientists weigh in on the effect of games on players
DIGITAL
1. B.C. ruling on jurisdiction over Google ‘disastrous’
3. The “world wide” web: a recent UK approach to determining copyright jurisdiction
4. BC Privacy Act does not oust Facebook’s forum selection clause: BC Court of Appeal
5. Canada moves forward with mandatory federal security breach notification law
7. Apple Music and the Future of the Music Industry
8. Last Week Tonight with John Oliver takes aim at online harassment
9. Apple Reverses Course, Will Pay Artists During Apple Music Free Trial
10. BitLicense: New York issues licensing and regulatory framework for virtual currencies
11. Senate of Canada releases report on digital currencies
12. California’s Eraser Law: what IP attorneys and owners need to know
13. AT&T to face $100 million FCC fine for throttling unlimited data
14. Microsoft stealthily backs away from free Windows 10 promise: We thought this would happen.
16. Internet of Things: continued regulatory focus and consistent themes, but not without discord
17. Internet of Things, news websites fare poorly in security and privacy review
19. Is the NFL-Yahoo Streaming Deal the Start of a Sports Television Revolution?
CREATIVITY
1. Speaker’s Corner: Surprise copyright changes have no place in omnibus budget bill
2. Creators frustrated with Copyright Office’s outdated technology, procedures (U.S.)
4. Beastie Boys win sizeable attorney’s fee award from Monster Energy
5. The ‘super powered’ rule of stare decisis defeats Spider Man
6. Steroid parody strikes out against the Yankees
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