This Slamdance saga is getting silly at this point. The latest news is that DigiPen has forced Toblo to rejoin the festival. Apparently, DigiPen, basically a videogame trade school, asserts IP ownership over student projects.

Coming from a liberal arts sort of background, this kinda shocks me. I can’t recall any colleges claiming IP ownership of student papers or of books written while there. I suppose it’s common if it’s research sponsored by school. Does DigiPen supply financial support to student projects?

This is kinda neat. 🙂 My first poster series!

Link: RPGnet Forums – View Single Post – [Photoshop] Rpg motivational posters, based of course on these.

Anyone out there want to try doing better? 🙂

The headline says it all: GameDaily BIZ: Breaking: Guitar Hero Development Goes to Neversoft.

I suppose this might be a side effect of Harmonix getting acquired by MTV while Red Octane got bought by Activision. And Neversoft is a talented shop. But either way, it’s still dismaying…

With the launch of Burning Crusade, people are already commenting on how much the value of older items has dropped. I’ve seen folks who are new to the whole expansion thing wondering about past games, and whether the same was true, and how much the buying power of past currencies fell in the wake of expansions. They even asked for links to studies.

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