Montreal Video Game Company Gets the Rights to Charlie Chaplin

Montreal Video Game Company Gets the Rights to Charlie Chaplin

Hey Y,all, Came across this article today and thought it was interesting. A Montreal video game company just got the exclusive rights to Charlie Chaplin and intends to make a game based around the individual. For those of you who are unaware who Charlie Chaplin is, he was a major silent film movie star throughout […]

Sexual Assault in the MetaVerse – Presentation Video – By: Charis Liu & Cailean Paskall

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 […]

Founder of Oculus Creates Murderous VR Headset

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 […]

Advertising Takes to the Sky

Advertising Takes to the Sky

Hey everyone, There has been a relatively recent interest from companies in using drones in the sky as a way of advertisement. For instance, the NBA implemented drones to light up the night sky of New York with 500 drones as a way of advertisement for the 2022 NBA Draft and its associated sponsor State […]

Gambling and Twitch

https://www.npr.org/2022/09/22/1124384092/twitch-bans-some-gambling-content-after-an-outcry-from-streamers [link to the article on Twitch banning gambling] https://kotaku.com/twitch-gambling-scam-pokimane-mizkif-hasanabi-strike-1849554448 [link to article on the scandal that led to these changes] We have looked briefly at gambling in video games in the form of loot boxes in the first few weeks of class, and have discussed how various countries throughout the world ban games that […]