GAMES
1. Nintendo and Philips settle patent dispute
3. Nintendo Patents Game Boy Emulation For Use In Mobile Devices, In-Flight Entertainment
4. Target Australia removes GTA V from sale following petition
5. Let’s Talk About Ethics In Games Journalism! (Zoe Quinn)
+ The Gaming Industry’s Greatest Adversary Is Just Getting Started
+ New Feminist Frequency Video Tackles Male Privilege in Gaming
+ Video Game Reviewer Is Contacting the Mothers of Her Online Harassers
6. The Rise of Game Neuroeconomics
7. Valve launches Steam Broadcasting
8. EA not looking for big acquisitions
9. Xbox’s Japan chief resigns after bleak Xbox One sales
10. Berlin’s Ad2games raises $9 million
11. Sony backs away from FIFA sponsorship
12. ‘I Am Bread’ Is the Weirdest Video Game of 2014
13. Designing an Alien Alphabet
14. Tate Worlds: Art Reimagined for Minecraft
DIGITAL
15. The Uncertain Scope of the Public Performance Right after Aereo (Matthew Sag)
16. What Happens When Spies Can Eavesdrop on Any Conversation?
17. EU Data Protection Authority Adopts Guidelines On The Implementation Of The Right To Be Forgotten
18. Enter the Matrix: The rise of brain-computer interfaces
19. Is Internet Addiction a Real Thing?
20. Putting out a fire: inappropriate tweets result in unpaid suspension for firefighter
21. “Net Neutrality”:Why are the Bad Guys So Much Better at Naming Things?
+ AT&T Has To Walk Back Its Empty Bluff About Freezing Fiber Deployment Because Of Title II
+ A World Without Net Neutrality Already Exists
22. Media and Internet Concentration in Canada, 1984-2013
CONSTRAINTS
24. Free Speech, Facebook and Gangsta Rap (Noah Feldman)
+ Supreme Court Chief Justice Quotes Eminem in Weighing What’s a ‘True Threat’ Online
25. How Medium is trying to bring back the web we lost
26. Social media told to simplify terms and conditions
29. China to Send Filmmakers to Countryside for “Ideological Training”
+ No Joke: China’s Broadcasting Authority Bans Puns And Wordplay
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Interesting decision by Australian retailers to cease sales of GTA V. I gather that Australian merchants and regulators have always been very uneasy with what they deem objectionable video games. Many more games are prohibited there than in other Western countries and previous installments of the GTA series have been taken off store shelves at times. The Australian media have quoted supporters of the anti-GTA V petition saying things like “exposure to this type content changes players’ brains and makes them more likely to engage in violence against women” (from a link provided in the News of the Week article). It has been an odd spectacle to see some commentators try to disassociate this type of thinking from the old culture warriors like Jack Thompson and his ilk.