• EA Sports Season Ticket: How to jip your loyal buyers

    There has been lots of talk about what Electronic Arts would do with it’s subscription plan. They had to do one. Micro payments and subscriptions are the wave of the future for gaming along with DLC. (Downloadable content) Activision was first to strike with its subscription service called Elite. The thing is that was for…

  • Microsoft does what Google could not; sets off to take over China with Baidu

    Microsoft is having great 4th today. We all know that Google has left China which is great in principle but business at times cares little about such things. Enter Microsoft who has just signed deal with China’s Baidu. The way this is going to work is that Microsoft will supply search results for English-language queries…

  • Supreme Court overturns California law restricting the sale of video games

    The United States Supreme Court voted 7 to 2 to overturn a California law restricting the sale of computer and video games–declaring those games to be protected speech like any other form of creative expression. Justice Scalia writes: Video games qualify for First Amendment protection. Like protected books, plays, and movies, they communicate ideas through…