ESA Canada – Canadian Gaming Industry Grew Without TPM Law
A recent op-ed in the ongoing copyright consultation in Canada by Danielle Parr of ESA Canada suggests that TPMs prevent piracy and somehow lead to more consumer choice.
Not that the arguments aren’t self-defeating or are a departure from reality, but those are among a number of arguments being made for a blanket ban on circumvention. [...]
Music Sale Losses Due to Gaming, DVDs, Not P2P
File-sharing, for years, has been one of the copyright industry’s favourite scape-goat. Lately, British news sources have received a fresh dose of “studies” where the copyright industry through government officials have been saying how file-sharing costs British artists billions thanks to the millions of file-sharers in the UK. While the numbers have since [...]
China’s Online Gaming Industry Performance Puts Alleged Piracy Effects in Question
For those who have heard about China being a hotbed for piracy a million times by anti-piracy organizations, there’s an interesting report on just how the actual online video game industry is actually doing.
It’s almost a cliché all on it’s own. China is a major hotbed for piracy. Of course, a number of [...]
SimCity Goes Open Source
The Sim series has gained incredible popularity over the years. From Sim City and Sim City 2000 to The Sims and others. The concept of Sim City is simple, build and run a city. While the game has fascinated many, now the open source community has something new to tinker with – [...]
Louisiana to Pay ESA Over Legal Fees From Unconstitutional Game Law
Louisiana must pay legal fees back to the ESA stemming from a defunct gaming bill.
The Entertainment Software Association (ESA) has announced that the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana is forcing the state of Louisiana to pay $91,000 for legal fees that the game industry trade group incurred while attempting to overturn [...]
Ultimate Gaming Mouse
The self-proclaimed “ultimate weapon for PC gaming”, this mouse has lots of features you could use in many situations. Integrating gaming components and the accuracy and precision of a mouse, this might just impress you.
This mouse uses USB 2.0 for speed, a high grade precision laser sensor, up to 4,000 dpi which can be [...]
Serious Gamers ONLY
I was reading a review of the Shuttle SDXI and it brought some serious desire to my life. Shuttle has a well-known reputation for small form barebones systems that rock the gaming world. Now, they have a hand-painted SDXI for you to drool over.
Let me give you some specs. just to tease you [...]
Encode360 lets you encode videos for the XBox 360
Encode360 is an application which will convert virtually any video format to high quality WMV’s which can be played by the X-Box 360 or the Microsoft Zune player.
Features:
Uses Windows Media Encoder as a base, so it’ll create 100% Microsoft compliant WMV’s
Automatic re-scaling of video sizes to match your TV resolution or Zune [...]
Playing DivX and Xvid content on Xbox 360 – An easy guide!
Microsoft’s Xbox 360 gaming console is one of the most popular ever. It’s great for sitting around and playing games with friends and you can even play DVD’s and music CD’s on the console. While this isn’t terribly exciting, if you have a system that is running Windows Media Center (MCE) or Vista Ultimate Edition, [...]
vNES: play Nintendo games in your internet browser
There’s a great gaming site called “vNES – The Virtual Nintendo Entertainment System” that allows you to play nintendo games from the comfort of your favorite internet browser.
There’s no need for pesky emulators or nintendo download packages, simply select the game from the scrollbar on the left hand side of your browser and then [...]
