Sean F. Kane will be a featured panelist at the upcoming Video Game Bar Association’s inaugural Game Business & Legal Affairs conference. The conference will provide an in-depth analysis of the prevalent and pertinent legal and business issues within the video game industry. Sean will be serving as a panelist…
A weekly wrap up of interesting news about virtual worlds, virtual goods and other social media. Kabam Hits Profitability in 2012 on Revenue of $180 Million Kabam doesn’t have to report earnings since it’s privately held, but that didn’t stop it from saying today that it was profitable last…
A weekly wrap up of interesting news about virtual worlds, virtual goods and other social media. Social Casino Games Market Now Worth $1.6 Billion The social gaming market is moving fast, as more companies take advantage of the growing online phenomenon. According to a new study by internet games…
A weekly wrap up of interesting news about virtual worlds, virtual goods and other social media. Beyonce Still Can’t Nix Video Game Suit, Appeals Court Says A New York intermediate appeals court on Thursday affirmed a lower court ruling that pop singer Beyonce could not nix a suit alleging…
A weekly wrap up of interesting news about virtual worlds, virtual goods and other social media. Video game tax break makes Quebec an industry hub Sixteen years after Quebec’s government made a conscious decision to make the province a hub for multimedia firms and put up the money…
A weekly wrap up of interesting news about virtual worlds, virtual goods and other social media. PokerStars Pays $731M, Acquires Full Tilt In DOJ Settlement PokerStars will pay a total of $731 million and absorb fellow online gaming site Full Tilt Poker in order to settle the…
A weekly wrap up of interesting news about virtual worlds, virtual goods and other social media. Twitter Drops LinkedIn Partnership LinkedIn announced via a blog post on Friday that Twitter would no longer be partnering with the business-networking site to sync updates from one site to the other.…
A federal court recently found copyright infringement based on a developers copying of aspects of the popular Tetris game, even though the code itself was not copied. This ruling confirms that IP can be used to effectively prevent certain cloning practices that are prevalent with online games. While this case…
A weekly wrap up of interesting news about virtual worlds, virtual goods and other social media. Mobile Game Fight Goes Global A turf war is breaking out in the videogame industry and, for once, it has nothing to do with Nintendo, Microsoft and Sony. This fight…
A weekly wrap up of interesting news about virtual worlds, virtual goods and other social media. App Makers’ Privacy Policies Leave Users In The Dark: Panel Several software developers and privacy advocates at a Federal Trade Commission workshop Wednesday shot down the notion that traditional privacy policies are…