According to CBS11tv.com (linked above), a southern California college student has been arrested on allegations of bypassing the DMCA by installing modchips into consoles.
The federal charges stated that he illegally modified video game consoles to enable the machines to play pirated video games, to quote:
The U.S. Attorney’s Office says 27-year-old Matthew Crippen was...
The Houston Chronicle's game blog recently pointed out the similarity in imagery between Left 4 Dead 2 and the aftermath of hurricane Katrina.
The game is set in New Orleans. It was only a few years ago that the city was destroyed, and there actually were corpses moldering in the streets... so it's natural that the game's visuals might remind people of the tragedy.
After the lengthy Pirate Bay trial and verdict along with an appeal and a biased judge, it appears a Swedish software firm named Global Gaming Factory X has purchased the network for 60 million SEK (Approx $8 million USD).
Press Release: STOCKHOLM, Jun 30, 2009 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- The listed software company, Global Gaming Factory X AB (publ) (GGF) acquires The Pirate Bay website,...
The original Pirate Bay ruling was appealed against as the judge was a member of the Swedish Copyright Association, hence there may be some bias in his ruling.
He was then replaced by another judge who has since been dismissed as well, as she too is a member of the copyright associations.
To quote: Jumping for joy at judge's replacement: A pirate, today. So, the...
The judge in the much noted Pirate Bay trial could have been biased and a retrial may be issued. According to public radio SR is Judge Tomas Nordström member in several associations treating copyright issues.
To quote: It is my belief that the judge should have resigned from the trial. It is a clear situation of conflict of interests, says attorney Leif Silbersky to public radio SR.
Edge was always a magazine I like reading no matter what kind of reviews they dish out, their perspectives are so well written that it’s pretty easy to negate everything else that they offer.
Did their Killzone 2 review push everyone against them, although I do not quite agree with the them, since they have given both Gears of War 2 and Halo 3 a 9 and 10...