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News of the Week; January 22, 2014
1. Why did a SimCity offline option take so long? 2. Plastic surgery game removed from sale 3. Gaming Addiction Documentary ‘Love Child’ Debuts at the Sundance Film Festival 4. The Healing Power of Video Games 5. Dreamcasters: how video games alter our subconscious 6. Valve says virtual reality hardware could transform entertainment in two years 7. Stealth marketing: Microsoft paying YouTubers for Xbox […]
News of the Week; January 15, 2014
1. Court upholds findings in $9.2M Epic Games, Silicon Knights lawsuit 2. Why The Violent Game Debate Actually Isn’t Over 3. Nintendo Secures IA Labs Patents in Sherriff’s Sale 4. Schilling Attorney Claims New Documents Prove Rhode Island’s Lawsuit is ‘Baseless’ 5. SimCity reversal: EA finally adding offline mode 6. China drafting new rules for consoles, disallows products ‘hostile to China’ […]
News of the Week; January 8, 2013
1. Nintendo must pay percentage of 3DS sales to infringed patent holder 2. The violent game debate is over 3. Lanza’s Violent Video Game Play Overblown 4. Are the Xbox and unleaded gas helping keep you safe from violent crime? 5. Penny Arcade’s Gabe Apologises For Being A “Bully” 6. Online Gaming Is South Korea’s Most Popular Drug 7. Happy pirates, wider […]
News of the Week; January 1, 2014
1. Rockstar Tells Honest GTA Online Players Not to Worry About Money Hack Issues 2. The 10 worst games of 2013 3. Teen’s Late Night Gaming Saves Family from Fire 4. Crazy race tests whether virtual driving skills carry over to real life 5. Internet Archive releases hundreds of classic game console ROMs 6. U.S. Patent No. 7,713,116: Inventory management of virtual […]
News of the Week; December 25, 2013
1. Investor sues EA over Battlefield 4 bugs 2. Zynga founder asks President to pardon Snowden 3. Chinese Wow Hackers Get Prison Time, Fines 4. Texas Judge Rules LoL Player’s ‘Terrorist Threat’ Case Will Move Forward 5. Think your game is exempt from COPPA? Think again. 6. Flights of fancy: Inside the intense world of virtual pilots 7. Resurgent Game Console Market […]
News of the Week; December 18, 2013
1. YouTube goes nuts flagging game-related content as violating copyright 2. Another Reason Why YouTube’s Video Game Copyright Crackdown Doesn’t Make Sense 3. YouTube copyright fiasco sparks INDmusic and TuneCore music claims 4. NSA’s virtual waste of time? Spying in ‘World of Warcraft’ is harder than you think 5. Playing video games could lead to life-threatening blood clots: Study 6. Smithsonian […]
News of the Week: December 11, 2013
1. Snowden papers allege NSA/GCHQ embedded in WoW, XBL 2. The best quotes from the NSA World of Warcraft surveillance papers 3. Spies’ Dragnet Reaches a Playing Field of Elves and Trolls 4. The Daily Show Is Really Worried About NSA Spying In World of Warcraft 5. Daily Report: Tech Giants Call for Curbs on Government Surveillance 6. NSA reportedly ‘piggybacking’ […]
News of the Week; December 4, 2013
1. The Player-Authors Project by Greg Lastowka 2. Arrest Made in San Francisco PS4 Killing 3. Why Gamers Can’t Stop Playing First-Person Shooters 4. Are Computer Games “Addictive?” 5. No Girls Allowed: Unraveling the story behind the stereotype of video games being for boys 6. New Barbie Game Is The Stuff Of Nightmares 7. Game Developers Pirate Own Game, Offer it as […]
News of the Week; November 27, 2013
1. NCAA sues EA over settlement with former players 2. Turbine Settles Lawsuit with Treehouse Avatar Technologies 3. Microsoft: ‘We plan to take care of customers’ with faulty Xbox Ones 4. Official Report Does Not Tie Sandy Hook Shooting With Video Games 5. Violent video games may stop crime by keeping criminals busy playing violent video games 6. Irish Male Teens […]
Regulatory unbundling coverage @CBC
During our discussion with Sheridan Scott this week, it occurred to me that it might be useful in some way to po st the following clip. Perhaps most appropriate to post in in News of the Week (since it actually made the news last week). The clips broach the issue of consumer choice in two […]