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Apple Worldwide Developers Conference to run concurrently with E3

Registrations have opened for industry members to attend E3 2011 in Los Angeles. Exhibitors signed up so far include major platform holders Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft, as well as big-name publishers including Activision, EA and Ubisoft. Registrations can be completed on the E3 website. ‘Qualified industry professionals’ who register before …

Game employment in US state rockets after govt aid

Moral panics are nothing new, but taking them to the Supreme Court in 2010 is madness

US trade body reacts to yesterdayâ??s hearings, declares California law unconstitutional

Schwarzenegger vs. Entertainment Merchants Association to decide sector content control in the States

The fate of legislation and control of video games sales in the US will be decided from today

A growing number of corporate giants from America’s leading entertainment industries have joined forces to fight a proposed law that would for the first time illegalise the sale of violent games to minors in the US. Activision is amongst the growing number of voices arguing that the law, which was …

It appears that the movement to oppose Arnold Schwarzenegger’s mature games bill in the US is proving successful with confirmation that no new states have signed up to the proposal since July. Law.com reports that only 11 states have pledged support for the measures, which would see the sale of …

New legislation proposed by Californian Governer Arnold Schwarzenegger that would see the sale of violent games to US minors outlaw has received the official backing of 11 US states. Gamasutra reports that a brief has been filed by the attorney generals of Connecticut, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, …