Hal Halpin from PS Blog writes:
"This winter, the game industry — developers, publishers, retailers, et al — will face the single biggest legal challenge that such entertainment, broadly, has ever been up against and in the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS). The State of California had appealed the U.S. Ninth Circuit decision to strike down the so-called CA “video game violence” law in Schwarzenegger v EMA, which every court had done in every such “violent video game” case. But this time was different; For the first time, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to review the case (via “accepting certiorari” aka “cert”). To be blunt, none of us expected it and we were all taken back by the decision. Just 1% of cases filed are granted cert — one percent!"
INDIE Live Expo, Japan’s premiere online digital showcase series , will debut never-before-seen games & content updates across more than 100 titles on May 25th.
"The best games of the year and the creative teams behind them were in the spotlight at the grand award ceremony of the German Computer Game Award 2024." - German Computer Game Awards.
Sure buddy... You're trying to tell me it has a deeper story than goat 🐐 simulator 4000?!?!?. I wanna give bg3 a shot but my brain is burnt out on long games
Seven months after its infamous launch, the Van Gogh Museum is restocking its popular Pokémon collaboration items -- and selling out fast.
Online petitions almost never work, but this affects millions of gamers in the US. If you care about what games you play, sign it. Who knows, you might even get Gears, GOW banned if this law passes.
Every one should sign it. In the case of a consumer product consumer opinions do matter and at the very least it could help. Can't hurt any. My guess is that they are just hearing it to close the case on it and shut up arguments over it. People are very protected of there 1st amendment rights so I don't see the SC saying games need to be regulated like other products, (Like guns) as the reason for regulating those is very very obvious. Granted, the chance is still there that they in-fact do want to explore the interactive nature of games. If so, then we could be in for some trouble.
Signed it in hope that it actually affects any decision the supreme court. I hate how non-gamers and people who know nothing about gaming are the ones making the decisions, just like most everything else in life. Most politicians know nothing but how to be clever and grease the right palms.