Author: Jack Slater
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Heather Alexandra on What It Means To Buy A Video Game
Highly recommended reading from Heather Alexandra : …the intersection of work and labor at play when we buy games also means that there’s a lot more going on. Being a responsible game player requires understanding the dynamics at play.
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Bethesda’s Excuse
Eurogamer’s Robert Purchase spoke with Pete Hines about their decision to pursue legal action against people reselling games. Go read Purchase’s article and come back. While I agree that it’s difficult to tell if a “sealed” copy of anything actually contains what it says, or is something that just weighs the same, I found this…
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The Plagiarizer
IGN recently fired an editor that covered Nintendo platforms and software, Filip Miucin, when it was discovered that he had plagiarized a review for Dead Cells from another video review. This situation was awful enough, but IGN’s managers did a good job of resolving it quickly, and I thought it could be an opportunity for…
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Fortnite Skipping Google Play to The Detriment of User Security
Epic is skipping Google’s Android app store (the advertising publisher calls it Google Play as if that meant anything) for their upcoming Android version of the free-to-play Fortnite (which is already on iOS and almost every gaming and computing platform.) There’s a beta signup here and the compatibility situation on Android is already a nightmare, check out…
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Bethesda’s Crack Legal Team Is at It Again
Apparently Bethesda is threatening to sue people who resell their games. Polygon’s Colin Campbell has the story: Philadelphia-based Ryan Hupp recently contacted Polygon to explain how he’d been forced by Bethesda to stop selling his copy of The Evil Within 2. He bought the game but never unwrapped it, he told us. He’d been expecting…