The Paris’ Court of Appeals last week issued €4.8 million ($6.6 million) in fines against a half-dozen companies importing and selling devices that can be used on Nintendo platforms to play homebrew and pirated games, Electronic Theater reports.
Warning: the “game” I saw today wasn’t much of a game at all. All I saw was some concept art, all I heard were some basic outlines of gameplay and a very detailed description of the game’s universe.
It all began in Paris, at Ubisoft – the most French company in the history of France. Apparently employees began creating video game characters on their windows with post-it notes. Before long the company opposite began creating their own in response. Then another company joined in the fun. Soon it began spreading across the city of Paris – now the craze has spread to London and Berlin! Those crazy Europeans, what will they do next!