HACKED! (PSN Network)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/elbragon/5455939124/sizes/m/in/photostream/  From Creative Commons license attribution required.  Only a couple of days after revealing a data breach, Sony has been sued over that data breach.  Story after the jump….

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Recent updates in Gaming Law

Photo via flickr Attribution required license; http://www.flickr.com/photos/pumpkincat210/ The latest in ongoing video game lawsuits….. Content after the jump….

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Asian video game law links (reference only)

Photo used per Flickr, Creative Commons Attribution required License.   (http://www.flickr.com/photos/throwherinthewater/870271841/) (Will Defending the Homefront Mean being Anti-Asian?)  From Gamelanguage blog. Other relevant Asian links follow the jump…..

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Sony sues Geohot

Image courtesy of  Cosima’s Digital Designs on Flickr; http://www.flickr.com/photos/phattatz/4501470765/sizes/l/in/photostream/.  Creative Commons attribution required. Sony sought a temporary injunction against the jailbreak, supposedly authored by a blogger who goes by “Geohot”.  His history; and the summation of the case so far is summarized in these links… after the jump.

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Top 5 videogame law stories of 2010

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             Photo courtesy of flickr, attribution required, http://www.flickr.com/photos/houseofsims/2335627386/               Short tribute before the Top 5 list.  I read and research ways to make my blog better.  Commenters are a particular problem with legal blogs, because you don’t want to appear to be giving free legal advice, but then again you can’t just leave crazy [...]

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Free software license(not what you think)

  Picture from Four-color basic system, role-playing system.   Is this an example of a truly “free and open software license”… where a new user can change/alter/improve?  Software freedom.. really? Here’s a couple of more reasoned, and a couple of more radical ideas of the “freedom” of software, after the jump..

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Community standards: what’s that?

Yes, the infamous “Banhammer”.Creative Commons attribution license, Flickr.  http://www.flickr.com/photos/powi/519822065/ The standards for banning gamers differ from community to community.  But with a recent growing trend of acquisitions, is the standard changing via the takeover company?  Should it?  Does community standard even have a meaning anymore with worldwide gaming so predominant that you may not even have [...]

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Music Games; Delete? or just hitting “pause”

Creative Commons Attribution license; http://www.flickr.com/photos/myklroventine/3400039653/ (Top photo represents”The Golden Egg”, from The goose that laid the golden egg.) This is a two-part post.  Whenever I’m writing about Music Games, my first thought is: how can I find enough to make this interesting.  Second thought:  How can I limit the length of this, to KEEP it interesting.  [...]

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Communications, People! (Developers’s Corner)

10 things every online game should have.  (From blog Imtalkingames)  Photo Credit: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/;  http://www.flickr.com/photos/fotologic/216182916/ Great series of articles, at “clicknothing” by a known game designer, Part 1 and Part 2     (And yes, I don’t understand it all… but thankfully it’s a series… I’m hoping there’s a happy ending at the curtain).   Gamer Entitlement, (from a game [...]

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New question: Games VS Art

What is all the hub-bub about whether games ARE ART?  Sure, a painting by a Renaissance artist dead 300 years ago may sell for tens of millions; but a videogame made by living graphic artists sold hundreds of millions(COD)… in the first day.  Imagine what it could go for in the 24th century?  (OK, maybe [...]

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