Stealthy? 1995? Please. 100% of teenagers play games today (those who don’t are a rounding error)–but I doubt the percentage in, say, 1990, during the SNES/Genesis era, was all that different. And the game industry first made the claim that it was bigger than the movies in 1980 or 81, if I remember correctly–albeit revenues…
When she got home she found her inbox stuffed with new messages, many of which were junk mail. One message was titled “BBC World service proposal,” but Onwueme said she just skipped over it. | The BBC sent a second e-mail, which she also did not take the time to read because it had the…
A student at McGill University has won the right to have his assignments marked without first submitting them to an American, anti-plagiarism website. —McGill student wins fight over anti-cheating website (CBC) As a former resident of Canada, I couldn’t repress a smirk at the CBC’s need to identify the website as “American” in the lead.…
The very premise of an online game is that it is uncontrollable – indeed, even the banned players have found ways to sneak back in various disguises. | That, in turn, presents a thorny set of philosophical problems. How do you seek to curb the baser instincts of a community of autonomous players? Is repression…
On this day in 1984, after a year of deliberation, the US supreme court ruled in favour of Sony (makers of the Betamax video-recorder) and against Universal Studios and Disney, who had claimed that viewers recording television programmes were stealing copyrighted material. The counter-argument was that home-tapers were “time-shifting”: rescheduling programmes through convenience rather than…