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Inside the ESRB
Noclip, a video game documentary series on YouTube, recently released a documentary about the Entertainment Software Ratings Board (ESRB). This is the first time in ESRB’s 25 year history that they have agreed to allow media to enter their doors. “How Does the ESRB Rate Video Games?” gives a sneak peek inside the offices of […]
Money Laundering Using Video Game Loot Boxes
Valve has shut down the ability for players to buy and re-sell keys to access in-game loot boxes in the popular game Counter Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO) in a bid to combat money laundering. Only recently, the company announced in a blog post that the online marketplace has been taken over by large fraud networks […]
Planting Trees with Minecraft, Fortnite, and “Treelon” Musk
If you haven’t heard, TeamTrees charity drive is attempting to raise money for the Arbor Day Foundation in order to plant 20 million trees at $1/tree. This charity drive was organized by a known YouTuber known as “MrBeart”, who donated $100,000 himself. One cool Videogame-based response is Seán William “Jacksepticeye” McLoughlin, who held a Minecraft […]
Fashion Firms Are Entering Video Games
Louis Vuitton has just unveiled their newly designed skins for League of Legends. Louis Vuitton’s involvement in designing skins has ben known for a while, but the first skin is now official. This shows the development in the industri and its commercialisation on a whole new level. Link for the skin and the history behind: […]
Advertising in Video Games
I’ll be presenting on legal issues arising from advertising in video games, which include the aspects of video game advertising, in-game advertisements and “advergames”. I’ll begin with an overview of the three, then I’ll examine the issues of protection of vulnerable audiences, disclosure and false advertising by looking at Canadian, the U.S. and the U.K. […]
Better Protection from Loot Boxes?
There has been much talk regarding Fortnite in recent weeks, particularly given the recent class-action lawsuit by a Montreal legal firm on behalf of two minors, to sue the company for producing such an addictive game. Now, a new report in the UK has been released, investigating the relationship young people in the UK have […]
Patenting AI-generated inventions
Hi all On Wednesday I’ll do a presentation on patenting software and the problems when trying to patent AI-generated inventions. I’ll do an overview of how software patents are treated in different juridictions (Europe, USA, Canada), and then I’ll go through some of the problems that arises when trying to patent AI-generated inventions. Here are […]
Nintendo’s War on ROMs
A ROM (“Read Only Memory”), as described by Nintendo refers to the “process of copying the software that constitutes a video game from the read-only memory found in a game cartridge or disk”, which can be played on various devices including non-Nintendo devices such as PCs and mobile phones through emulators, “a piece of software […]
PS5 vs Xbox Scarlett
Sony officially announced that the PlayStation 5 would be coming out in the near future. Also, Xbox came out with a bit of a teaser calling their new Xbox: Project Scarlett. It’s tough to compare the two because they are so early in the stages of announcements but there are some comparisons that we can […]
Loot Box Presentation – October 2, 2019
Hello class We are presenting on loot boxes tomorrow and wanted to give you some contextual articles that could help you prepare for our presentation. These are some optional readings. Please have a look at them, they are short. We will be touching on the history of loot boxes, the updates in the media about […]