European pirates, guard your jugulars: intellectual property holders have released the hounds. Today, City of Heroes publisher NCsoft announced that it will actively pursue court orders to shut down illegally operating game servers in Eastern Europe; while the UK-based ELSPA disclosed that it had seized 85,000 discs worth of counterfeit Nintendo DS software.
Continue reading...Thursday, March 27, 2008
Two days ago, BusinessWeek’s Matt Vella prognosticated a beautiful future for user-created content should console game companies like Microsoft “start opening up and letting devoted players tinker with the bits inside.” Now, it looks like Redmond’s giant software company may have set just the precedent required to catapult us into that very future.
Continue reading...Tuesday, March 18, 2008
There’s an excellent interview over at 1UP.com with Too Human and Eternal Darkness creator Denis Dyack, wherein he details, among other things, how he believes the structure of Silicon Knights and the firm hold they possess over their intellectual property allows them to create meaningful interactive experiences.
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Thursday, April 10, 2008
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