DIGITAL
- Once Again: It’s Not Clear The Internet Needs Creepy Targeted Ads
- Facebook usage falling after privacy scandals, data suggests: Actions such as shares and likes down nearly 20%, though user numbers still growing
- Facebook adds new limits to address the spread of hate speech in Sri Lanka and Myanmar
- Facebook to identify French hate speech suspects
- Exclusive: In a world first, Facebook to give data on hate speech suspects to French courts
- Australia Says Media Companies Can Be Sued Over User Comments On Facebook
- Court Declines to Dismiss Data Breach Claims Against Facebook Based on Access Token Incident–Bass v. Facebook
- Your Periodic Reminder That Facebook Isn’t a State Actor–Williby v. Zuckerberg
- If Facebook or Google create their own currency, they can control our lives
- Facebook Rolls Out Political Advertising Tools Globally
- After Months of Rumors, Facebook Officially Announces New Libra Cryptocurrency
- Facebook’s New Currency Has Big Claims and Bad Ideas: Libra is an ideological project, not a practical one.
- Why Facebook’s Libra Cryptocurrency Is Both More Interesting Than Expected And Less Interesting Than I Hoped
- Quadriga Founder Spent Client Money, Bankruptcy Monitor Says: Ernst & Young says Gerald Cotten, late founder of defunct Canadian cryptocurrency exchange, funneled client money into fraudulent accounts
- New crypto-currency rules come as enforcement ramps up
- Instagram will start putting ads within the Explore page: Ads everywhere
- Facebook makes another push to shape and define its own oversight
- District Court Finds Use of Third-Party Hashtags Created Implied Association
- Fake news game confers psychological resistance against online misinformation
- Sudan court orders company to end military-ordered internet blackout: lawyer
- Indian Gov’t Uses National Security Law, Bad Information To Block Twitter Accounts All Over The World
- Russian Government Demands All Foreign Press Outlets Register For The Privilege Of Delivering News To Russia
- FedEx sues US government over export controls after Huawei problems
- After Decades Of Demanding China ‘Respect’ US Patent Law, Senator Rubio Pushes Law That Says US Can Ignore Huawei Enforcing Patents
- If China Is A Glimpse Of Our Future Surveillance Nightmare, Maybe Hong Kong Shows How To Fight It
- Trump Ponders Banning All Chinese-Made Gear From US 5G Networks
- The LawBytes Podcast, Episode 17: What To Do About Huawei? – Christopher Parsons Unpacks One of Canada’s Most Challenging Policy Issues (Michael Geist)
- YouTube Reportedly In Late Stages Of Federal Investigation For Violating Children’s Privacy Laws
- YouTube reportedly under investigation over alleged child protection breaches: “An FTC investigation into YouTube’s treatment of children online is long overdue,” says US lawmaker
- YouTube spreads ‘misleading information’ about experimental stem cell treatments: Health Canada has warned unlicensed clinics are offering unauthorized cell therapies and making unproven, outsized claims
- LGBTQ+ YouTube Employees Could Face Consequences If They Protest Steven Crowder Decision At Pride (Report)
- Meghan Trainor To Headline VidCon Kickoff Concert ‘YouTube Onstage’
- In The Ever More Crowded Streaming Space, YouTube Is “Zigging Where Other People Are Zagging,” Susanne Daniels Says
- YouTube Rolls Out 3 Tools To Give Viewers More Control Over Suggested Videos
- YouTube Music Can Now Auto-Save 500 Suggested Songs For Offline Consumption
- Top 50 Most Viewed U.S. YouTube Channels • Week Of 6/23/2019
- Top 50 Most Viewed YouTube Channels Worldwide • Week Of 6/23/2019
- Google CEO Admits That It’s Impossible To Moderate YouTube Perfectly; CNBC Blasts Him
- YouTube Confirms Test Of Feature That Hides Comments By Default On Android App
- Google Hardware quits the tablet business, again
- Google is killing YouTube’s “Hangouts on Air” this year
- Kingsley Returns To YouTube After Yearlong Absence, Says #YouTubeBlack “Changed My Life”
- Firefighters Used YouTube Videos To Rescue Ducklings Trapped In Storm Drain
- ‘Siphoning off the crap’: Agencies prioritize buying premium content directly on YouTube
- Yoga Influencers’ Disclosures Show Limits of Flexibility
- Andy Signore Settles Lawsuit Against Defy Media, Is “Looking Forward To Exposing The Truth”
- Cameo raises $50m for its celebrity-shoutouts app
- Cameo Raises $50 Million In Series B, Has Hosted 275,000 Video Shoutouts In 2 Years
- BBTV Signs Kwebbelkop, Family Fun Pack, And Athletes Anthony Adams And Tristan Jass
- UK May Have Finally Ditched Its Absurd Porn Filter Plan
- Before Demanding Internet Companies ‘Hire More Moderators,’ Perhaps We Should Look At How Awful The Job Is
- Review: Google Chrome has become surveillance software. It’s time to switch. – Our latest privacy experiment found Chrome ushered more than 11,000 tracker cookies into our browser – in a single week.
- Insights: The Young Turks Will Intertwine Their Values With Their Ad Dollars, But Can Other Media Sites Afford To Follow?
- After Teaming With Emma Chamberlain, Louis Vuitton Invites The Dolan Twins To Paris Fashion Week
- With new leadership, Snapchat makes friends among marketers and publishers in Cannes
- Sorry, ads are coming to TikTok
- Vice Media to shut down operations in Montreal
- Wattpad strikes Mediaset agreement
- BET’s Upcoming Streaming Service To Be Joint Venture With Tyler Perry
- Netflix Is Testing A Pop-Out Player On Desktops So You Can Multitask While You Watch
- The Obamas’ First Netflix Feature, ‘American Factory,’ Is Headed To Theaters
- Implications from New Hampshire Lottery Commission v. Barr
- Hulu Is Already The SVOD Growth Story of 2019
- Disney Is Saying All the Right Things About the Hulu-Disney+ Relationship: The company will work to keep its divided streaming offerings on the same page.
- Disney Pushing To “Significantly” Expand Hulu’s Original Programming, Says CEO Randy Freer
- The New Takedown Obligations in the EU for Online Content-Sharing Service Providers
- EU Intellectual Property Office Produces Dumbest Propaganda Film Ever, Pretending Without IP There Is No Creativity
- The Paywall Conundrum: Even Those Who Like Paying For News Don’t Pay For Much News
- The Raspberry Pi 4 launch site runs on a Pi 4 cluster
- Proposed Law Would Force Big Tech to Reveal Value of Consumer Data
- Explainer: How Letting Platforms Decide What Content To Facilitate Is What Makes Section 230 Work
- Legislators Propose Narrowing § 230’s Protections
- Supposedly Disadvantaged Conservatives Not Exactly Rushing To Support Josh Hawley’s Anti-Section 230 Bill
- Self-Made Millionaire Loses Lawsuit Over Facebook’s Removal Of Videos Of People Urinating
- The Plaintiff Is Probably Pissed About Section 230–Fyk v. Facebook (Eric Goldman)
- Don’t Shoot The Message Board: A Data Driven Look At The Impact Of Section 230 On Innovation And The Economy
- Locksmiths Locked Out: Court Affirms Immunity for Use of Tools That Portray Third-Party Content Pictorially or as an Aggregate Metric
- Concerns about misinformation could lead to limits on key media freedoms
- Guy Pushing Hawley’s ‘Viewpoint Neutrality’ Concept In The Media Used To Write For White Supremacist Site
- States Limit Employer Access to Employee Social Media and Other Internet Accounts
- Amazon takes on TCL’s Roku TV with low-cost HDR Fire TV
- Amazon patents ‘surveillance as a service’ tech for its delivery drones: Including technology that cuts out footage of your neighbors house
- Amazon got clearance to build drones that can carry out surveillance on customers’ homes between deliveries
- Nicosia v. Amazon (U.S. District Ct., Eastern District of New York, Memorandum & Order June 14, 2019)
- Hackers, farmers, and doctors unite! Support for Right to Repair laws slowly grows
- Bill Gates calls failure to fight Android his “greatest mistake”
- Researchers develop ‘vaccine’ against attacks on machine learning
- Ontario Human Rights Commission looking at AI impact on racial profiling: OHRC to create policy guidance on artificial intelligence in policing
- Who’s that bot? California requires clear disclosure starting 7/1/2019
- McCormick’s concept grill plays music based on what you’re cooking: The SUMR HITS 5000 has a built-in DJ to (kind of) spice up your BBQs.
- How Machine Learning Turned Major Lazer’s ‘Make It Hot’ Into Vertical Video
- The trick to saving human factory jobs might be teaming up with the machines
- Queen’s Law partners with European business school for AI project: Collaboration could lead to breakthrough in IP law on both sides of the Atlantic
- Artificial Intelligence and Copyright Protection
- Report from AI Decoding IP: Day 1
- The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence
- Is Artificial Intelligence Set to Transform Private Equity Dealmaking?
- Oxford Business Blog highlights Prof. Dignam’s work on AI
- Artificial Intelligence: The Very Human Dangers of Dysfunctional Design and Autocratic Corporate Governance (Alan Dignam)
- The company that owns TikTok now has one billion users and many are outside China
- German regulator says it discovered new illegal software on Daimler diesels
- A History of IP in 50 Objects: Internet (Jonathan Zittrain)
- A paper towel dispenser with an end-user license agreement is a special kind of hell
- Modern Courts and the Need for Judicial Technological Competence
- Major League Baseball’s Obsession With Cashing In On Everything Has Harmed The Game’s Popularity Online
COMMUNICATIONS
- A Spectrum of Opportunities and Challenges: Canada’s 5G Future
- Ex-chair of FCC broadband committee gets five years in prison for fraud
- Robocalls Swamp Hospitals As The Trump FCC Pretends To Fix The Problem
- FCC Tees Up Mid- and High-Band Spectrum Auctions to Support 5G at July Open Meeting
- FCC Releases Draft Order on Changes to Children’s Television Rules – Action Expected July 10
- Ajit Pai tries to kill San Francisco’s attempt to spur broadband competition
- FCC battles meteorologists again over plan to help wireless industry
- FCC lets Verizon lock cell phones to network for 60 days after activation
- Verizon Now Pretending That 5G Will Help Cure Cancer
- AT&T sued over hidden fee that raises mobile prices above advertised rate
- AT&T Ratchets Up The Content Wars
- States Flex Their Muscles and Antitrust Skills to Block Sprint/T-Mobile Merger
- Dish To Buy Parts of T-Mobile To Save Sprint Merger, But It’s Not Likely To Help
- No, Your Kid Isn’t Growing Horns Because Of Cellphone Use
- Another EEO Audit Released – Looking at the FCC’s Current EEO Obligations
- House subcommittee approves bipartisan robocall bill
- Deference to Agency Jurisdiction Still Unanswered: SCOTUS Fails to Resolve Whether an FCC Order Interpreting the TCPA is Binding on Federal District Courts
- Private Publishers Aren’t State Actors–Manhattan Community Access v. Halleck
PRIVACY
- Why data ownership is the wrong approach to protecting privacy (Cameron Kerry & John Morris)
- “Gonna stand my ground; And I won’t back down”¹ – The OPC charges forward with its controversial consultation on transborder dataflows/transfers for processing
- Nation-sponsored hackers likely carried out hostile takeover of rival group’s servers: Like an episode of Spy vs. Spy, Russian-speaking Turla appears to hijack OilRig’s network.
- As The DOJ Continues To Complain About Encryption, Cellebrite (Again) Announces It Can Crack Any IPhone
- Australian Home Affairs Minister Says Government Still Considering Spying On Its Own Citizens
- DHS cyber director warns of surge in Iranian “wiper” hack attacks
- Iranian state hackers reload their domains, release off-the-shelf RAT malware
- A rogue Raspberry Pi helped hackers access NASA JPL systems
- Potent Firefox 0-day used to install undetected backdoors on Macs: So far, attacks are known only to target Mac users involved in cryptocurrency.
- A tale of two cities: Why ransomware will just get worse
- Can’t Have Copyright Enforcement Without Destroying Privacy Protections
- Canadian global leadership on data protection
- Data compliance goes global: Vivek Narayanadas, in-house counsel for Shopify, has his hands full navigating privacy and data protection laws around the world.
- Privacy FAQs: If a company receives a right to be forgotten request, is it required to delete records that show whether an individual opted-in or opted-out from marketing?
- Privacy Report: Three Dating Apps Removed from App Store After Potential COPPA Violations
- Maine and Nevada’s New Data Privacy Laws and the California Consumer Privacy Act Compared
- Want Companies to Comply with the CCPA? Delay Its Effective Date
- State Privacy Laws Continue to Proliferate
- Sshh: Alexa can hear you
- Top 5 ways GDPR impacted digital banking in its first year
- Interior Department Putting Even More Effort Into Dodging FOIA Request
CREATIVITY
- The Copyright Board Game (Howard Knopf)
- Unbalanced Witness List: Why the Copyright Review Was Right To Ignore the Canadian Heritage Committee Study, Part Three (Michael Geist)
- Limited Views: Why the Copyright Review Was Right To Ignore the Canadian Heritage Committee Study, Part Two (Michael Geist)
- Ignoring the Evidence: Why the Copyright Review Was Right To Ignore the Canadian Heritage Committee Study, Part Four (Michael Geist)
- Better Data, Better Results: Comparing the Gap Between the Copyright Review and Heritage Study on the Music Industry’s Policy Proposals (Michael Geist)
- Universal Music Cashed In On Insurance After It Let Thousands Of Master Recordings Burn… And Didn’t Give Any To Artists
- Just Don’t Infringe Copyright, Kawhi Leonard Tells Nike
- Kawhi Leonard v. Nike Inc.: How copyrights can trump trademarks?
- Raptors Win but Trademark still under Claw
- Stephen Curry’s “Holey Moley” Faces Trademark Complaint in California Court
- Appellate Court leaves open question of good faith in copyright litigation
- Supreme Court to Decide Whether States Can Copyright Annotated State Law
- Supreme Court To Review Whether Or Not You Can Copyright State Laws
- Supreme Court to Rule on Whether Sovereign Immunity Protects States from Copyright Infringement Claims
- Have We Learned Anything from Pepe the Frog About Copyright Law?
- US Supreme Court Strikes Down Ban of ‘Scandalous’ Trademarks
- Supreme Court Now Says That The Trademark Office Can’t Reject ‘Immoral Or Scandalous’ Trademarks
- SCOTUS: Ban on “FUCT” trademark registration violates First Amendment
- F-*-C-T- U.S. Supreme Court strikes down ban on registration of immoral or scandalous marks
- Supreme Court Says “Scandalous” Trademarks May be Registered
- Caterpillar Now Going After All The Cats For Trademark Cancellations
- Surge in Defamation Claims: What is Causing the Increase?
- French Museum filled with fakes still questioning how it happened a year on
GAMES
- Rovio files trademark lawsuit against hot chicken restaurant ‘Angry Birdz’
- Rovio sues California chicken restaurant over Angry Birds trademark: Finnish developer alleges Angry Birdz Nashville Hot Chicken violating trademark on both name and logo
- Law against account boosting goes into effect in South Korea
- Cease-and-desist transforms Mario Royale into DMCA Royale
- Don’t Miss: Dissecting the revolutionary game design ofSuper Mario Kart
- Super Mario Maker 2 review: A great sequel, playable on a better console
- Epic and EA execs squirm under scrutiny from British MPs: Testimonies arouse suspicion and dismay from members of immersive and addictive technology inquiry
- British technology inquiry chair says industry is only “paying lip service” to gaming addiction: King Digital, UKIE, TIGA, others struggle to convince MPs that games industry is taking issues like loot boxes seriously
- At U.K. Parliament Hearing, Electronic Arts Says Its Loot Boxes Aren’t Loot Boxes
- EA: Loot boxes actually “surprise mechanics” that are “ethical and fun” – Gaming reps at UK parliamentary panel also answer charges of addictive game design.
- Gimme the loot – United States proposes ban on loot boxes
- Anthem’s rocky launch hasn’t dissuaded EA, says CEO
- EA sees Bioware’s Anthem on “seven to ten year cycle”: CEO Andrew Wilson admits the publisher “might not invest further” if players were not compelled by the experience
- Jedi: Fallen Order hands-on: Finally, a solid EA Star Wars game—is that enough?
- Patrick Söderlund’s $20m retention bonus didn’t leave EA with him: Stock grant reportedly returned to company pool used for initiatives including new hires
- Security firms demonstrate subdomain hijack exploit vs. EA/Origin
- Twitch takes action against trolls amid artifact’s downfall
- Twitch introduces Subscriber Streams: New feature allows Partners and Affiliates to set some streams as only for paid channel subscribers
- YouTuber JacksFilms Accuses ‘Fortnite’ Of Stealing, Selling His Deep Dab
- Desmond ‘Etika’ Amofah found dead at 29: Nintendo-focused YouTuber had been missing since last week after video threatening self-harm
- YouTuber And Twitch Streamer Desmond ‘Etika’ Amofah Found Dead At Age 29
- Razer cuts ties with streamer following Twitter remarks about men: Brazilian streamer removed from company’s influencer program after tweeting that “men are trash”
- Popular Gamers Mini Ladd And BigJigglyPanda To Embark On 27-City ‘Demonetized’ Tour
- Saving Fallout 76: Bethesda’s Pete Hines on using the lessons from The Elder Scrolls Online to fix a rare misstep for Bethesda Game Studios
- The U.S. Government has blocked League of Legends in Iran and Syria
- League of Legends reportedly blocked in Iran: Riot Games’ message to Iranian users attributed block to “US laws and regulations
- Just 15% of European gamers are interested in Google Stadia and xCloud: According to the latest survey results from GameTrack for UK, France, Spain and Germany
- Teamfight Tactics is a super fun Auto Chess variant, despite frustrating RNG: League of Legends’ take on the mod is a winner.
- Square Enix “Ethics Department” advised changes on Final Fantasy VII character: Alterations to Tifa’s character model centred around wardrobe, not breast size, and were guided by internal ethics group
- Square Enix partners with Gary Sinise Foundation to raise cash for first responders
- Project Babel dev Colopl says employees inflated sales to boost app rankings
- CD Projekt Red: “Everyone is feeling the pressure on Cyberpunk 2077” – But the studio’s new crunch stance has been a boost to staff morale, says quest director
- QA bears the brunt of Treyarch’s crunch and culture issues, say staff
- Stories of crunch, neglect for QA at Treyarch: Call of Duty Black Ops 4 employees and contractors describe unfair treatment, disregard for contractor work force
- Bungie pushes back Destiny 2 fix to maintain dev work-life balance
- Bungie delays Destiny 2 patch to avoid crunch: Community asked to wait in the name of “preserving work-life balance”
- The GamesIndustry.biz Podcast: Why do we need unions?
- The subtle art of crisis management: From epic crunch to 8chan AMAs, the games industry is never far from a scandal — but PR professionals face many challenges when reacting to calamity
- Console makers seek to avoid 25% price bump driven by Trump’s trade war
- Microsoft, Nintendo, and Sony pen letter against Trump’s game console tariff
- Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo: 25% tariff on consoles would cause “disproportionate harm”: Letter from leading hardware manufacturers says tariff on hardware made in China would hurt economy, jobs, innovation
- “Iwata Asks” developer interviews will become a book: Earthbound creator’s company to publish collection of discussions between late Nintendo president and developers
- Nintendo chooses Israel for its second official store: First new outlet in 14 years now open, Tokyo stored planned for later this year
- Tel Aviv is now home to Nintendo’s second official store
- Sega sees streaming’s potential to reach new audiences
- How id built Wolfenstein 3D using Commander Keen tech
- Ninja To Release How-To Gaming Guide, Graphic Novel As Part Of Three-Book Deal
- Alpha Protocol removed from Steam as music rights expire: Sega says it still owns the IP, but nine-year-old game contains songs that would need re-licensing
- Steam now has an official LGBTQ+ tag, hub page: Category appears following Nepenthe developer’s request on Steam forums
- Steam and Ubuntu clash over 32-bit libs
- Steam ending support for Ubuntu over 32-bit compatibility
- Don’t Miss: 20 essential real-world games to study (and play!)
- Subscription services unlikely to replace traditional game sales, says WBIE
- Microsoft’s Strategy to Become the ‘Netflix for Games’
- Report: The rumored second next-gen Xbox model likely won’t see the light of day
- Microsoft reportedly cuts internal content teams at Inside Xbox and Mixer: Change in strategy prompts layoffs and potential contract cancellation as company’s fiscal year nears end
- Report: Microsoft has laid off content creation staff at Mixer and Inside Xbox
- Minecraft: Education Edition is getting an Immersive Reader and new educator resources
- Commodore 64 gets retro re-release: Full-sized version of the 80’s gaming goliath set to launch December 5
- Charity livestream raises $3.7m for children’s hospital: Fortnite streamer Dr.Lupo breaks records, raising $1 million in four hours
- Bungie raises over $400,000 for children’s hospital during charity livestream
- Bungie raises over $400k for St Jude Children’s Research Hospital: Developer’s block on Guardian Con Charity Marathon Stream was largest block in event’s history
- Humble has raised $150M for charity through bundles and storefront
- Ubisoft: Watch Dogs Legion will encourage players “to think differently” – But the E3 hit will still allow players to “make their own minds up” about depiction of surveillance state Britain
- Ubisoft sees high acceptance for opt-out subtitles: Even in games that ship with subtitles off by default, publisher sees more than half of players turn them on
- Crystal Dynamics: The Avengers is the biggest thing we’ve ever done – The Square Enix studio on its transformation beyond Tomb Raider
- F1 2019 simulates the highs and lows of motorsport, on and off the track
- Square Enix launches charity fundraising campaign for first responders: Publisher will match donations made to Gary Sinise Foundation up to $50,000
- Sean Murray on No Man’s Sky: “I thought we were making a niche game” – Hello Games’ founder on the difficulties of transforming a live game, and pushing past a divisive launch
- Cory Barlog: “We’re now able to give actors meaty performances, as opposed to just doing voice” – God of War’s director expects more actors like Keanu Reeves to star in games
- Building interesting emergence in Dying Light 2
- Sea of Thieves is the game it is today because of Game Pass, says Xbox head
- Blog: Creating the the AI of Sea of Thieves – Part 3
- Blog: Consoles are resilient for now, but cloud gaming poses new challenges
- Blog: On narrative from a cognitive perspective – Part 4
- Blog: An archaeologist considers Heaven’s Vault
- Blog: Creating natural looking geometry in Unexplored 2: The Wayfarer’s Legacy
- Blog: The love-hate relationship between marketeers and social media
- Blog: Localizing your game without making it suck
- Video: Learning from the doomed launch of Brigador
- Video: Rapid-fire animation insights from the GDC 2019 Animation Microtalks
- Keeping up with the surprise success of Mordhau
- Cultist Simulator mobile: The all-singing, all-dancing data dump
- Amazon’s struggle is a reminder that content is still king | Opinion: Every tech giant wants a slice of the games business, but the difficulty of creating great games and valuable IP hasn’t changed
- GAME recommends shareholders accept Sports Direct offer: Company says 30 pence per share is a fair value considering industry challenges
- Valve launches first mobile game: Dota Underlords is company’s take on Dota Auto Chess, will also be available on PC, Mac, and Linux
- Dota Underlords has topped 170,000 concurrent users in 24 hours
- World War Z has topped 700,000 sales on the Epic Games Store
- Tim Sweeney: Epic Games Store exclusives will help devs everywhere earn more
- Tim Sweeney: “Unpopular” Epic Game Store exclusives are working – Epic CEO argues that the divisive strategy will benefit gamers in the long term
- Harry Potter: Wizards Unite generated $1.7m less than Pokémon Go on day one – Sensor Tower data shows more than 400,000 installs, $300,000 in revenue across the US and UK, but launch is flagging behind Niantic’s best
- Forge of Empires reaches €500m in lifetime revenue: InnoGames’ strategy title brought in over €250m in the last two years
- This brilliant GTA 5 zombie RP mod is a DayZ-esque nightmare: RottenV adds purpose and structure to GTA 5’s often unpredictable roleplay scene.
- It’s possible to build a Turing machine within Magic: The Gathering
- Azerion has purchased Spil Games’ mobile game division
- Spil Games sells mobile division to Azerion: Founders remain owners of Spil’s web portals, will work in partnership with Azerion
- Esports Star Tfue Sues To Void His Contract With FaZe Clan
- Lessons from the Lawsuit That Could Shake Up the Esports Industry
- Global esports director Kim Phan departs Blizzard
- Blizzard loses global esports director Kim Phan: Phan is the second high ranking departure from Blizzard’s esports department in recent weeks
- Trust Esport invests €1.5m in smartVR: French investment fund supports development of VR arcades and related esports services
- Valve launches VR Portal spinoff Aperture Hand Lab
- Magic Leap suing ex-employee for stealing tech to make his own XR headset: Florida start-up claims former engineer’s Nreal Light headset bears a “striking similarity” to confidential company tech
- Seven years on from Oculus Rift’s launch, how far have we come? | Opinion: Game Dragons’ Andrew Oliver ponders the current state of virtual reality, and how it might benefit from 5G and streaming
- Superdata: PUBG sells 4.7m digital units year-to-date – Fortnite still leader in digital earnings on console last month, though revenue remains down YOY
- Insights: Never Mind Peak TV, Are We Headed To Peak Game Service?
- Making the most of a digital office space: Sonderlust’s Lyndsey Gallant explains how the remote working studio’s all-day video conferences have helped the team
- Time to Chain Up: Is Blockchain About to Change the Gaming Industry?
- 28 years later, a no-disc version of the Sega CD finally exists—and it works
- 22 of the worst PC games of all time
- Myst to be adapted for TV and film: Village Roadshow Entertainment acquires rights to game’s mythology for “multiplatform universe”
- Fed. Cir. Spots Weak Claim Construction Arguments
- A Single Prior Art Reference Can Render a Patent Obvious
- Game and Tech. Co. v. Activision Blizzard (U.S.C.A. Fed. Circuit, June 21, 2019)
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