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If it's not the advent of digital game that could kill bricks-and-mortar game retailers, it might be the law. A recent Federal appeals court ruling could impact how used games are bought and sold. The Dallas Morning News reports that the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decided that a software...

It's been a long road for the California bill backed by Governor Schwarzenegger that seeks to keep violent video games from being sold to minors. But the end is finally in sight: The Entertainment Consumer Association has announced that the case, known as Schwarzenegger vs. EMA (Entertainment...

Former Sony employee 58-year-old Hidehiro Kume invented a small optical pickup that is used to read and write discs in the PlayStation 2 and the original PlayStation. He didn't feel Sony recognized his contributions, so he took it to court. A lower Japanese court rejected Kume's claim he...

Nintendo wins appeal in Anascape lawsuit There's a reasonable chance that you don't remember Anascape. Perhaps you remember the company that took Microsoft and Nintendo to court over its video game controller patents a few years back -- ring a bell? Specifically, in 2008, Nintendo was ordered...

Hi Addicts. I have absolutely no idea how military courts work. I was watching "Platoon" today,almost near the part where berringer shoots one of his own men. It got me to thinkin',If a military man kills someone in a bar when he(for sake of an argument) is on a weekend pass,who does he have to...

Link Trevor Drinkwater, president of Genius Products, is quoted as saying, "We believe that Activision and 7 Studios have improperly used confidential information obtained from Genius and 7 Studios to interfere with our efforts to complete the game. In short, we believe that Activision is...

http://www.joystiq.com/2009/02/20/california-video-game-law-fails-again-in-circuit-court/ The 9th Circuit Court has affirmed that the California game law is not going to fly -- so, state tax payers better prepare to write the Entertainment Software Association another check. This latest appeal...

Well sony took it to court and lost. They have to pay Immersion corp. $90 million+ (the first company to come out with "rumble" technology) because sony didnt license their controllers and are supposedly asked to take off all the PS2's and games that have the "rumble" technology in them from...