Tuesday, January 3rd, 2012 at 10:54 pm
Possibly in response to the recent plethora of news stories covering SOPA and Nintendo, Microsoft, and Sony's engagement with the act, the Entertainment Software Association has issued a statement.
The ESA issued the following statement to Joystiq.com in regard to its stance on SOPA:
"As an industry of innovators and creators, we understand the importance of both technological innovation and content protection, and do not believe the two are mutually exclusive. Rogue websites – those singularly devoted to profiting from their blatant illegal piracy – restrict demand for legitimate video game products and services, thereby costing jobs. Our industry needs effective remedies to address this specific problem, and we support the House and Senate proposals to achieve this objective. We are mindful of concerns raised about a negative impact on innovation. We look forward to working with the House and Senate, and all interested parties, to find the right balance and define useful remedies to combat willful wrongdoers that do not impede lawful product and business model innovation."
[via Joystiq]
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Tuesday, January 3rd, 2012 at 7:57 am
Unfortunately, it's not, but that doesn't mean you can't look at it and appreciate its greatness.
It's got a custom made board, custom money, custom player pieces, custom everything – except dice oddly. Why Stop there?
You can check out the full gallery here and congratulate deviantART user tommyfilth's handiwork.
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Monday, January 2nd, 2012 at 5:02 pm
Minecraft creator Markus Persson announced development for Minicraft 2 a few days ago under the pretext that it was only a temporary name.
Persson tweeted that MiniTale is the new title and you can check out the awesome official websites that are definitely not under construction here and here.
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Monday, January 2nd, 2012 at 2:16 am
Anonymous recently released a YouTube video threatening Sony for supporting SOPA. They have since clarified that if this attack were to take place, it would be focused on Sony Executives and not the PlayStation Network.
Apparently, there were those among the hacker group who wanted to attack the PlayStation Network, but they concluded that they would not attack PSN. The plan now seems to be to post personal information about Sony executives online, deface Sony's website with anti-SOPA propaganda, and make copywritten Sony media available for free from links on Sony's assorted websites.
Since the threat was brought up, Sony has scaled back its support of SOPA, which may have been a result of Anonymous' threat, and it could also be enough for Anonymous to drop the whole thing.
[via PlayStationLifestyle.net]
Thanks to Adym for the news tip!
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