Video Games

Review: Nintendo Wii in Japanese Only. *Contest Included*

by Louis Grube June 22, 2009 Video Games

I’ve done quite a few geeky things. Raise your hand if you know what LARPing is. Now raise your hand if you’ve spent Friday nights LARPing. By nights, I mean more than one in a row. Anyone still with me?

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My EULA Crisis

by Joshua Auriemma May 17, 2009 Geekery

For the past year or so, I’ve devoted substantial efforts to arguing that many terms within standard Massively Multiplayer Online Game license agreements should be found unconscionable. For those of you who don’t know, I’m spending the summer as a Summer Fellow with the Stanford Law Center for Internet & Society.  CIS hosts many events [...]

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US News 2010 Law School Rankings Leaked

by Joshua Auriemma April 19, 2009 Geekery

UPDATE: The 2010 US News Law School Rankings leak has been unofficially verified as legit. It appears that the critical badger was out in front on this one, producing a scanned copy of the first page (# 1-55) of the rankings on Saturday night.  Top-Law-Schools.com produced the full list sometime early this morning, which the [...]

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Visualizing Licensing Agreements

by Joshua Auriemma February 22, 2009 Geekery

Found a cool new toy on TechCrunch this morning.  Wordle takes text or a URL and creates a neat visualization (akin to a WordPress Tag Cloud) based upon the frequency of words.  Words that appear more frequently within the text are rendered in a larger font. Here’s a visualization of the current World of Warcraft [...]

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A Limit on Licensing Agreements

by Joshua Auriemma February 2, 2009 Geekery

I made a post to GamesLaw recently discussing the recent MDY v. Blizzard decision from last week. As I hit crunchtime for my hopefully forthcoming law review Comment, I am increasingly infuriated with the insane power afforded to software developers. Why is it so difficult to argue that a contract term like, “we reserve the [...]

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Little Big Planet and Copyright Infringement

by Joshua Auriemma November 9, 2008 Geekery

For the unenlightened, Little Big Planet is a game which is heavily focused on user-created content.  While the game was recently delayed for references to the Koran, there are already a slew of youtube videos displaying some awesome custom content.  Anyway, it appears that Sony has been yanking levels containing copyrighted IP faster than c.  This [...]

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Fallout 3 Song List

by Joshua Auriemma November 8, 2008 Geekery

Law geeks, you should probably stop reading this now as it will likely be of no interest to you.  Apologies. So this is where my true geekery comes out.  Fallout 3 was released recently, which is the long-awaited sequel to — you guessed — Fallout and Fallout 2.  It’s a sandbox RPG, and it’s a [...]

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Misbehaving on Forums? You Can’t Play Your Videogames Anymore

by Joshua Auriemma October 31, 2008 Geekery

According to kotaku, a moderator at Electronic Arts has declared that when users are banned from the EA forums, they will also be locked out of (presumably the online component of) their purchased video games. This is another great example of software companies taking advantage of being able to license their games rather than transferring [...]

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Where’s the Geekery?

by Joshua Auriemma May 21, 2008 Geekery

The name of this blog is “Legal Musings and Geekery.” Somehow, I’ve managed to neglect the geekery until now. I was waiting in line to buy Age of Conan at Gamestop today, and I was stuck behind a couple that decided 5 PM would be the ideal time to trade in every game they’ve ever [...]

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