Category Archive: Legal

March 6, 2009 – 12:55 pm, ESRB head Patricia Vance writes open letter to Utah’s parents and leaders

Source: Kotaku

March 3, 2009 – 12:30 pm, Jack Thompson’s video game bill passes Utah House 70-2

Source: GamePolitics

March 2, 2009 – 3:20 pm, Gibson Guitar Corp. loses patent lawsuit against Activision; court finds Guitar Hero controllers don’t qualify as “musical instruments”

Source: Engadget

March 2, 2009 – 2:35 pm, Read Jack Thompson’s disbarment writ of certiorari

Source: Game Politics

February 25, 2009 – 4:40 pm, Microsoft bans Xbox Live subscriber for admitting she is a lesbian

Source: Consumerist

November 20, 2008 – 9:30 am, Jack Thompson forced to pay Florida Bar $42,525

Source: Game Politics

November 18, 2008 – 1:35 pm, Brash sued by 7Studios and Zootfly

Source: Variety

November 8, 2008 – 12:39 pm, EA facing even more class-action lawsuits over DRM

Source: GamePolitics

August 28, 2008 – 11:37 pm, The ESA’s lobbying bill topped $980K last quarter

Source: Yahoo Business

August 28, 2008 – 10:10 pm, Report: Social engineers accessing Xbox Live accounts, including that of Halo 3 developer Joe Tung

Source: MTV News

August 28, 2008 – 9:02 pm, Peter Moore might not agree, but the ESA is all in favor of sending pirates to prison

Source: VG247

August 27, 2008 – 1:22 pm, Blame GTA: The videogame legal defense strategy

Source: Palm Beach Post

August 19, 2008 – 5:07 pm, American McGee fires back at Denis Dyack’s “defrauding” claims: “My guess is that there’s more than a little UE3 still in Too Human”

Source: American McGee’s Blog

August 18, 2008 – 5:01 pm, Denis Dyack: “We all feel really strongly that [Epic] have defrauded us and a major portion of the industry”

Source: Develop Mag

August 11, 2008 – 4:27 pm, Fallout 3, previously banned down under, has been granted a 15+ rating certificate in Australia and will be available at retail

Source: Xbox 360 Gamer

August 5, 2008 – 6:06 pm, Sale of Grand Theft Auto IV banned in Thailand after teenager murders taxi driver

Source: BBC News Online

July 31, 2008 – 5:02 pm, Take-Two enrages 17 concerned British citizens with Grand Theft Auto IV TV spots, UK Advertising Standards Authority couldn’t care less

Source: ASA.org.uk

June 25, 2008 – 4:50 pm, State Senate passes bill 61-1 that mandates all games sold in New York be rated by the ESRB

Source: GamePolitics

June 25, 2008 – 11:20 am, Nobody cares about the Grand Theft Auto ‘Hot Coffee’ scandal; “shocked” law firm seeks less than $30,000 in damages for plaintiffs, $1.3m in legal fees for itself

Source: The New York Times

June 23, 2008 – 12:18 pm, UK youths buy 18-rated games online to circumvent age-restriction laws

Source: BBC Online