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So Activision is going all RIAA on software pirates, and now the pirates have started to complain. Over at GameCyte an anonymous pirate who fell under the scrutiny of Activision's crack legal team laments over his harsh treatment at their hands, detailing how they callously based their monetary demand on his personal income and buying habits rather than the material infringed, and how they suggested that if he hire a lawyer he'd wind up paying them even more. Towards the end of the article he even muses on how people who hear of such harsh treatment might not buy Activision products anymore. More »
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Hal Halpin took a moment out of his busy schedule of presiding over the ECA (Entertainment Consumers Association) to weigh in on the situation in Texas where a high school boy was arrested and ejected from his school for creating a Counterstrike map in its likeness. More »
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The first Final Fantasy game to hit the PSP comes from quite the unexpected source, as homebrew developer TT-Team releases not only the first PSP FF title, it's the first massively multiplayer PSP title. The game is basically a MMO port of Triple Triad, the card game from FFVIII. You can connect to US or Euro servers, collect cards, gain levels, chat, and manage friends, all from your homebrew capable PSP. Here's a trailer for the game: More »
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The Academy Awards. Hollywood's opportunity to bask in itself and spend loads of money on limos, parties and wooing Academy members to vote for "important" motion pictures. Last week, Gamasutra ran an article, which compared a planned Japanese game award show to the Oscars. The Academy's sue-happy lawyers jumped down Gamasutra's throat: More »
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