Law & Games Seminar

Everything about Leeroy Jenkins.

Sony’s new virtual world, “Home” sounds interesting even though it’s being released three years late. Finally, something interesting coming to the Playstation 3!

Michael Madison, a keen observer of things technological, blogs this report, entitled Playing by the Rules:
BNA reports on MDY Indus. LLC v. Blizzard Entm’t Inc., filed recently in the District of Arizona.  Blizzard operates the online multi-player game Worlds of Warcraft; MDY sells WoWGlider, which plays WoW on behalf of your character.  WoWGlider is sort [...]

More exploration of the connections between real life and virtual life in Molotov Alva’s Second Life.

The EU relies to a significant extent on the internet as a way of trying to engage people with its activities. Commissioners have weblogs and they do online consultations about proposed rules. And now the EU is thinking about developing a presence in Second Life.

Interesting Economic Report at the Digital Money Blog.

Via The Carpetbagger Report,
In a bizarre example of political vandalism, John Edwards’ virtual online headquarters at “Second Life” were ransacked this week, apparently by Republicans. According to the campaign, “Shortly before midnight (CST) on Monday, February 26, a group of Republican Second Life users, some sporting ‘Bush ‘08′ tags, vandalized the John Edwards Second Life [...]

For those interested in issues relating to violent games (and perhaps also serious games) this thoughtful post on Super Columbine Massacre is worth reading. The post also argues that games shouldn’t just be dismissed as entertainment and that sometimes they are art (Feng Mengbo, a Chinese artist, uses video games in his art work).

If we don’t have your two-page statement and the date on which you plan to turn in your rough draft…well, it’s late.
Now would be real good…

Chinese man dies after gaming marathon…
The article does provide one interesting statistic:
“About 2.6 million — or 13 percent — of China’s 20 million Internet users under 18 are classed as addicts, state media have reported.”
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17379748/
As an aside, I don’t remember if this was mentioned in class, but there is already a 12 step program…
http://www.olganonboard.org/