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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 its finalists: Super Columbine Massacre [...]

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 my home state of Massachussets. [...]

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 affiliate station KSFO. As [...]

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 our wedding website, [...]