Posts tagged freedom-of-speech

LGJ: Is game censorship the new trade barrier?

by Mark Methenitis (Apr 10th 2009 4:35PM)

Each week Mark Methenitis contributes Law of the Game on Joystiq ("LGJ"), a column on legal issues as they relate to video games: Thinking about the recent rash of international game censorship issues, I noticed a pattern: Games banned abroad are almost exclusively American (having, at least, ...

Postal 2 to be featured in Nobel Prize museum

by Griffin McElroy (Jan 28th 2009 4:24PM)

We'd wager that the first time the gaming community collectively booted up Running With Scissors' Gary Coleman-rich urination sim, Postal 2, we all shared the same thought: that this game absolutely needs to be showcased in some sort of museum commemorating mankind's greatest accomplishments. If ...

Law of the Game on Joystiq: No Freedom of Trash Talk

by Mark Methenitis (Jun 25th 2008 5:45PM)

Each week Mark Methenitis contributes Law of the Game on Joystiq, a column on legal issues as they relate to video games: In a recent Sessler's Soapbox, Adam took the opportunity to comment on some of the trash talking on Xbox Live. During the course of that diatribe, he mentioned that he thought ...