If the folks behind Kane & Lynch 2 should be sued, they should be sued for something other than the “vicious vilifying” of the Chinese people. And they should be sued for a lot more than $US1585 — that figure would represent no more than 27 copies of the title sold at full retail price here and I’m certain the actual victims of the game’s nausea-inducing shaky-cam and the nauseating characters depicted by it, number far more than that.
Never mind that Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days was first released nearly two years ago (or that it was a bit of a turd), one lawyer in China sure is pissed.
Social gaming giant Zynga, the team behind FarmVille, is taking a French developer to court because it released a game called PyramidVille.
Starting in May, Chinese netizens will soon be able to own and pass down online property as China launches its first virtual property notarisation services.
Out in California, a woman is suing Facebook because her teenage son bought the social network’s virtual currency to spend in video games, and that transaction should be illegal under the state’s consumer protection laws.
Late last year, artist Erling Løken Andersen thought it would be a nice idea to set up a website for his Fallout fan art. It was lovely art, coming in the form of posters, and in a nice touch, Andersen even uploaded incredibly high-resolution (and vector!) versions so people could print out their own copies.