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Starcraft II will be a worldwide phenomenon. The RealID requirement, since retracted, is causing some ripples across US gaming blogs, and some other places. I’m going to explain why the U.S. is, perhaps, not as important as we like to think…. right after the jump….
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Some helpful links about voice-acting in videogames, more after the jump….
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What led to the destruction (total?) at Infinity Ward Studios?(read the other stories tagged Infinity Ward if you’re not familiar with [...]
A lot of recent litigation activity lately, and I’ll try to link to it as the week goes on. However this is a long overdue post on how a developer uses perspective (his or her own) to make their world, and how the structure guides the course of that world.
Ten Things a Game Should [...]
Just a gentle reminder; I was a gamer a long time before I was a lawyer. Every day I (like many of you) read a lawsuit notice that seems so patently absurd that as a fellow lawyer I wince. Lawsuits that I’m sure 10 lawyers may have turned [...]
From a great article in First Monday: The key question in legal analysis of videogame law: “Should cyberspace (or subsets of cyberspace) be treated as distinct “places” for purposes of legal analysis?”
To me the biggest single question in the analysis. Every question in this division (and I say it is a FIRM DIVIDE, or [...]
Here are some important legal updates on stories I’ve talked about the last 90 days.
World of Warcraft is shut down in China once again by government authority. Here’s the full story at gamasutra. The most telling information is that even in a government as centralized as China there is sometimes a lack of [...]
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People ask me all the time about the title of this blog. Does this mean the blog is just for gamers?No. The title means it is for lawyers, game publishers, game makers, and game developers who care about gamer’s rights.
Think about it. When there is a movement for “people’s rights”, who [...]
I know you’re thinking, where’s the Video Game lawyer money?
The beginnings of these cases are all so celebrated, so noteworthy, posted on the game sites, the news sites, but where are the awards?
Recently, retired NFL players were awarded a $28 million judgment, according to the legal newsletter on JDSupra.
Here is the Justia page of [...]
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