GAMES
2. This Guy Remade Super Mario 64’s Most Iconic Level In HD And Playable In Your Browser
+ Nintendo Takedown Notice for Super Mario 64 HD
+ Fan-made Super Mario 64 game pulled after Nintendo cries foul
+ Fan-made Mario 64 remake disappears following Nintendo copyright complaint
+ Poll: Should Nintendo have DMCA’d a fan’s free Super Mario HD remake?
+ Why Does Nintendo Want This Superfan’s YouTube Money?
+ Nintendo’s physical DLC: Supply-limited toy needed for new gameplay puzzles
4. Andrew Eisen Video: ‘My Favorite Thing About Anita Sarkeesian’s Tropes vs Women Videos’
5. Julia Hardy’s Misogyny Monday
6. Community questions Obsidian over ‘Pillars of Eternity’ in-game trans joke
7. Mortal Kombat producer “quits” Twitter over violent threats to family
9. Oracle settles with Rhode Island in 38 Studios bankruptcy case
+ 38 Studios auction brings in $90K for Rhode Island
11. Secondary schools in NI to receive free copies of Minecraft
12. Brave Frontier publisher Gumi cuts 11% of staff following IPO
13. GameStop annual sales up slightly to $9.3 billion
14. The Unbalanced Design Of Super Smash Brothers
15. Meet America’s First Video Game Varsity Athletes
16. Epic Awards One Of Three Unreal Dev Grants To Makers Of Net Neutrality Game
17. Bioware makes Orbit framework open source
18. Japanese devs will soon be able to pitch games using Bandai Namco IP
19. MOBAs will overtake MMORPGs in F2P revenue this year – EEDAR
20. What does Google Play’s increase in game sessions mean for iOS?
DIGITAL
22. In Final Verdict, Jury Rules Against Pao On All Four Claims In Ellen Pao Vs. Kleiner Perkins
+ Two Jurors On Opposite Sides Share Their Pao Vs. Kleiner Perspectives
+ Ellen Pao and the Myth of Meritocracy
+ Ellen Pao’s Statement On Losing The Kleiner Perkins Case: “The Battle Was Worth It”
23. China Uses Unencrypted Websites to Hijack Browsers in GitHub Attack
+ China’s Great Firewall Turned Around: Why China Wants To Censor Global Internet
26. Judge: Mississippi investigation of Google likely violates 1st Amendment
+ An amended Bill C-51 is still a problem: insights from the U.S. (Jon Penney)
+ The government has not made its case for C-51 (Kent Roach & Craig Forcese)
+ From Obama Birthers to Anti-Immigration Activists: Who the Government Turned to for Bill C-51 Support During Committee Hearings (Michael Geist)
+ How C-51 undermines privacy (Lisa M. Austin, Benjamin J. Goold, Avner Levin and Andrea Slane)
28. Quebec Takes on the Internet: Government Announces Plans to Require Website Blocking & Studies New Internet Access Tax (Michael Geist)
+ Facebook tracks logged-out users in ‘violation’ of EU law, study says
31. Tech companies are sending your secrets to crowdsourced armies of low-paid workers
32. 5 other insane things a corrupt DEA agent did while allegedly stealing Bitcoin from Silk Road
33. A Precautionary Approach to Big Data Privacy (Arvind Narayanan, Joanna Huey & Edward W. Felten)
34. Court Rejects Bizarre Attempt To Scrub Consumer Review–Goren v. Ripoff Report
35. Meerkat, YouNow, Periscope and the future of live-streaming
+ Meerkat is dying – and it’s taking U.S. tech journalism with it
37. Gen Con issues letter to the community on SB 101, event stuck in Indianapolis until after 2020
38. Really, Rupert?
39. Fox News, Jeanie Pirro Facebook Lawsuit Could Change Copyright Landscape On Social Media
41. Massive Anti-Net Neutrality E-mail Campaign Shows Signs Of Faking Many Signatures
42. Judge awards damages in false DMCA takedown case
43. Another invalidated clickwrap agreement
44. Those NDAs may not be worth the paper they are written on
46. Facebook’s Message to Content Makers: We Own the Audience
47. How The US Government Legally Stole Millions From Kim Dotcom
48. The NFL Will Stream a Game on the Web Next Year. Don’t Get Used to It.
49. Two Years Later, Snowden’s Mangled Laptop Is More Than an Empty Symbol
50. One Artist’s Take on the Future of Personal Data
51. ‘Avengers’ 3D Firm Brings Patent Lawsuit Against ‘Divergent’ 3D Firm
CREATIVITY
52. CRTC dramatically shifts Canadian television regulation
+ At Bell Media, editorial meddling by execs appears to be a recurring problem
+ Bell censorship: the status quo can’t endure
+ Don’t bundle me, bro: Life under the shadow of Big Telecom
+ Can CTV News and BNN be trusted to report on themselves? Depends on Kevin Crull’s mood
53. Judge Rules ‘Three’s Company’ Parody Play to Be Fair Use
54. In defense of Trevor Noah’s stupid, tasteless tweets
55. Rap lyrics are fiction — but prosecutors are treating them like admissions of guilt
56. Why Traditional TV Is The Real Walking Dead
57. Why curation could be at the core of future reporting
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