Archive for January, 2007

Thoughts on the Guerilla Gamemaker Competition

Saturday, January 20th, 2007

The Slamdance Festival runs alongside the Sundance Film Festival, styling itself as an edgier sort of independent event. It also hosts a "Guerilla Gamemaker Competition," featuring digital games created by independent designers. Slamdance may have called its indie cred into question this year, however, by dropping a controversial game from ...

A Summary of Video Game Violence Legislation

Monday, January 15th, 2007

Generally, I leave commentary on video game legislation to Game Politics and The Video Game Law Blog because there's so much to keep up with. Now, however, anti-game attorney Jack Thompson has been asked to draft up a bill that would restrict the sale of violent games to minors in ...

Disney uses DMCA to shutter blog critic; may ironically help blogger

Tuesday, January 9th, 2007

In yet another example of the abusive use of DMCA Title II, Disney has effectively silenced a weblog critic who was waging a successful PR campaign against one of its stations for patently offensive content. The blog, Spocko's Brain, posted audio files of right-wing talk show hosts from Bay Area ABC ...

I’m married!

Tuesday, January 9th, 2007

On Saturday, January 6, I married Christina Marie Collins during a lovely ceremony in West Philadelphia. Thanks to those of you among the 220+ guests. We had a very lovely time, and I'm very much looking forward to married life. If you know me personally, please email me for the URL to ...