GamePolitics brings news that the Florida Supreme Court has sanctioned everybody’s favorite Miami lawyer, Jack Thompson. Thompson spent the last week fulfilling a show cause order explaining why they shouldn’t sanction him, but apparently the court doesn’t think his reasons were good enough. (more…)
Gamers in the UK will finally be able to experience the poorly reviewed Rockstar-developed gorefest known as Manhunt 2 for Wii and PS2. The British Board of Film Classification initially refused to give the game a rating back in April 2007, blocking its release, but Rockstar went to the Video Appeals Commitee decided that the game wasn’t bad enough to be banned. The BBFC sent out a press release that they are left with “no alternative but to issue an ‘18′ certificate to the game.” What a shame, they were just doing UK gamers a favor by preventing additional political drama and saving them from buying a game that isn’t fun. The actual release date is unconfirmed at this time.
[Link] Next Generation - Rockstar Responds to UK Manhunt 2 Rating
Many gamers, myself included, would never have even imagined a day like this in a thousand years. The man who crusaded against the infamous Hot Coffee mod in 2005, who blamed Virgina Tech on video games, and who was vocal about Manhunt 2, has defended Mass Effect in an email conversation with a reporter from Kotaku. Perhaps he has more pressing matters to worry about? I’m not sure, but either way, this is quite stunning from someone who is so bent on getting rid of any scrap of violence found in video games. The conversation can be seen by clicking on the link.
http://kotaku.com/349423/jack-thompson-defends-mass-effect
The rumor that has been plaguing the internet this week is true. Bungie, creator of the popular “Halo” series has left Microsoft to go on their own merry ways. (more…)
Hey look! Gamers can take things out of context too! In his latest shenanigans, everyone’s favorite lawyer is trying to defend his rather odd decision to include gay pornography to a court filing against a rival lawyer who runs a gay advocacy site, because apparently running that site somehow entails distributing gay porn. It’s worth noting that none of the images submitted by Thompson actually came from the site in question, so indeed, Thompson did a little googling of his own to find some hardcore horny man-banging to show the judge. It makes just as much sense to us as it does to the court, seeing that Thompson will likely lose his license once and for all over the whole ordeal.
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Another Take-Two issue with everyone’s favorite (not really) lawyer, Jack Thompson. Nothing too far out there, Jack makes claim he can’t back up, Take-Two gets annoyed — they argue for awhile, and fighting stops. This time Thompson is attacking Take-Two’s methods for age verification, the same age verification used by every single gaming website on the internet. Take-Two retaliates with information to back up their system, and Thompson spits out hit usual crap.
But don’t take it from me, read for yourself: Game Politics
P.S. Sorry for the lack of news articles. I’ve had a lot going on in my life and have been mostly spending downtime playing games. I apologize for the lack of news, especially that of the few new releases we never mentioned.
As reported by Gamespot, Sony is currently being sued by Parallel Processing Corporation over the, well, parallel processing technology in the Cell processor. PPC claims Sony infringes a 1991 patent they made for ’synchronizing parallel processing with shared memory.’
The company is seeking damage and attorney fees, and if it has it’s way, would have Sony remove all products violating the patent. It may just be me, but I think it took way to long for someone to realize and take action. I believe there should be a period of time to respond to a product that’s out there if it violates your patent before you can go all wily-nilly with suing people and if you fail to do so, forfeit your attempt to make money off of it.
However, this case hasn’t yet started up, so we’ll wait and see what happens.
The tragic events that took place Tuesday at Virginia Tech are fully deserving of the media’s (and the viewing public’s) attention. Unfortunately, a certain someone has taken advantage of this opportunity to push his own agenda. Here we go again…
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