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LGJ: If 24 songs = $1.9 million, then 1 game = ?
by HoldPredCrero on Jun.25, 2009, under Features, Gadgets, Media, Video Games
Filed under: Features Each week Mark Methenitis contributes Law of the Game on Joystiq (“LGJ”), a column on legal issues as they relate to video games : Maybe you heard about the verdict that just came out in one of the music file-sharing cases: $1.9 million for 24 songs. So, what does this have to do with gaming? More than you would probably imagine, since this gets to the root of copyright and statutory damages. In fact, EFF legal scholar Fred von Lohmann posted an interesting piece on whether the penalty is even Constitutional. Whether this is the suit that breaks the back of statutory damages has yet to be seen, but it’s something that any media producer or consumer should be keeping an eye on.
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LGJ: If 24 songs = $1.9 million, then 1 game = ?
Glu developing Modern Warfare 2 for mobile phones
by coirdov on Jun.25, 2009, under BlackBerry, Gadgets, Media, Video Games, Windows, iPhone
It’s true that we haven’t played a “video game” on a cellular device (at least, one that wasn’t an iPhone) since our lengthy Snake sessions back in 1999 — though we imagine there’s a contingency of folks out there who get excited for mobile adaptations of console games. For instance, you may find yourself thrilled about Glu’s next mobile project — a version of Modern Warfare 2 that’s coming to Androids, Blackberrys, BREWs, J2MEs and Windows Mobile phones in Q4 of this year.
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Glu developing Modern Warfare 2 for mobile phones
Former Beatles, widows involved in The Beatles: Rock Band development
by SarEvilia on Jun.24, 2009, under Gadgets, Media, Video Games
It looks like Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Yoko Ono and Olivia Harrison have more to do with The Beatles: Rock Band than thrilling journalists at Microsoft’s E3 media briefing . In an interview with Crispy Gamer , the game’s lead designer, Chris Foster, intimated that the former Beatles, along with Ono and Harrison, have shared quite a bit of input with the team at Harmonix. Foster calls the group “the shareholders,” and states that they helped put together the song list, its venues and gave input as to whether the game’s “dreamscapes” adequately supported the songs. “They looked over all the characters, the animations … they really kept us honest on whether we were capturing the spirit of the band as they were performing, which was a huge challenge for us,” says Foster, noting that it’s necessary to capture the joy that The Beatles expressed when playing.
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Former Beatles, widows involved in The Beatles: Rock Band development
Mark Jacobs’ departure leaves Mythic employees ’shocked’
by Jason Rybka on Jun.24, 2009, under Gadgets, Media, Video Games
Continuing its coverage of the Mythic / BioWare merger announced earlier today, Massively reports that Mythic employees were taken aback by the departure of studio head Mark Jacobs. An anonymous Mythic employee told Massively, “I can’t even fathom Mark leaving a company he loved so much, it was his life.
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Mark Jacobs’ departure leaves Mythic employees ’shocked’
