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Nintendo Loses Patent Suit, Owes $21 Million

By Chris Faylor, May 15, 2008 7:37am PDT

A jury has awarded Anascape $21 million of Nintendo funds after finding that the console maker violated the small company's patents. Anascape...

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"And the problem with Anascape is that what they did was a legal use of patent law. The ..."

- OverloadUT see all 23 comments

New Bill Proposes ID Checks for Game Purchases; ESRB, FTC Say Retailers Are Getting Better

By Chris Faylor, May 08, 2008 8:36am PDT

A bill presented to the U.S. House of Representatives yesterday would force retailers to check the ID of anyone buying an M or AO-rated game or...

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"Eventually, perhaps. I dislike the principle, and the obligation to explain myself to the ..."

- T-900 see all 78 comments

Take-Two Sues Chicago Over Pulled GTA 4 Ads

By Chris Faylor, May 06, 2008 7:50am PDT

Following the Chicago Transit Authority's decision to stop carrying advertisements for Grand Theft Auto IV, publisher Take-Two Interactive has sued...

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"they should be going after the fox news people who tried making something out of nothing and ..."

- pyide see all 52 comments

UK Report Suggests Movie-like Game Ratings

By Chris Faylor, Mar 27, 2008 9:38am PDT

In a report commissioned by British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, study author and clinical psychologist Tanya Byron has suggested a number of...

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"Another Ukaysian here, can confirm the above. It's not perfect, but compared to what I know of ..."

- T-900 see all 7 comments

MechWarrior Crysis Mod Given Legal Clearance

By Chris Faylor, Sep 24, 2007 2:07pm PDT

Microsoft has granted a mod team the legal clearance to develop a BattleTech-inspired Crysis mod.

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"Considering that MekTek didn't have an editor or any SDK at all to start off from and had to ..."

- LogicalDefect see all 35 comments

Silicon Knights, Epic Continue Legal Sparring

By Chris Faylor, Sep 14, 2007 1:07pm PDT

Silicon Knights has responded to Epic Games' rebuttal and motion to dismiss the Canadian developer's lawsuit regarding its grievances with the...

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"Not to mention, unlike SK, Irrational already had Unreal engine experience with SWAT 4 (was ..."

- Borzoi see all 39 comments

Louisiana Pays ESA $91K for Illegal Game Law

By Chris Faylor, Apr 18, 2007 12:10pm PDT

The United States District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana has ordered the state to reimburse the Entertainment Software Association...

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"For some of you non louisianians, Babineaux is pronounced like Ba-bin-no. Silly people."

- mobab see all 19 comments

The Uncertain Legality of Second Life Gambling

By Chris Faylor, Apr 05, 2007 8:08am PDT

According to a recent Reuters article, neither the FBI nor creator Linden Labs are quite sure how to approach the legality of gambling within the...

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"For anyone needing personal statement help online, Personal Statement Writer ..."

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Ralph Baer on Gaming's History of Legal Disputes

By Chris Faylor, Mar 23, 2007 8:11am PDT

Gamasutra recently chatted with Ralph Baer, most commonly known as the father of video games. They spoke on a wide variety of subjects, from Baer's...

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"I'm halfway done reading this interview and it's awesome! @ bigpimp: I think you should go ..."

- JagoX see all 4 comments

NVidia & ATI Price Fixing

By Steve Gibson, Dec 11, 2006 9:06am PST

So people have been fussy about the price of videocards at the high end being pretty darn insane these days. Apparently the prices have offended...

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"Are you f*cking socialists, communists or what? You Americans should be proud of you ..."

- napalm.cz see all 117 comments

RIAA & "Legal" Hacking

By Maarten Goldstein, Oct 15, 2001 1:21pm PDT

RIAA Wants to Hack Your PC is a Wired.com article about a hacking-authorization amendment that the Recording Industry Association of America tried...

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" Yep, but then again, any information or whatever they attain by hacking into someone's computer ..."

- Vorlonesque see all 107 comments

Barely Legal Evening Reading

By Maarten Goldstein, Jul 30, 2001 5:45pm PDT

Ah yes. Those fine titties and Evening Reading. They go together so well. It might just be barely legal, but hey that's good and legal enough for...

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"- Random comment: [sikander]: #1009, *BITE* *CHOMP* *SPIT* *BURF*... @ Early Evening Reading"

- dognose see all 3068 comments

Rambus Legal Bill

By Maarten Goldstein, Apr 12, 2001 4:45pm PDT

CNet is reporting about the earnings of memory-maker Rambus which is still in several lawsuits. The company is making a profit but not much as...

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" "Huh? What are you babbling about? If anything DDR is the memory that is garbage because it ..."

- LOD-Glock see all 31 comments

A Legal Quake Name

By Steve Gibson, Dec 04, 2000 4:09pm PST

A human interest story here or um.. something. You guys may get a kick out of this one. A few people sent in word that an update on the Xeno Clan...

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"Nirox..? No, nimrod would be more appropriate in this case.."

- dn__ see all 549 comments

Lawmakers Want MP3.Com Service Legal

By Maarten Goldstein, Sep 27, 2000 6:20am PDT

According to CNET several US congressmen have introduced a bill that would make the My.MP3.Com service (listening to your CDs online after you...

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"This is only getting attention because it has the word mp3 in it. If we started calling these ..."

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