Recent content by Thomas Mccluskey

If the game has a better system for aiming while driving, preferably something similar to that of Red Dead, I'll buy it. If not, there are always other games. The alternative to a new aiming system would be for Rockstar to just stop creating missions in which I have to shoot out another car's...

This much is basically true, although they may have already attempted to settle, but I'd think their best means of settling the dispute would really have been, "Okay, how about this. Just put one of our little four-page brochures in every copy of the collector's edition." Lord knows there's...

I may be nitpicking, here, but so are you. It's a headline, which is the one place in an article where hyperbolic statements are somewhat acceptable. For example, if a newspaper said, "WORLD AT WAR," following, say, the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand or perhaps sometime after, this...

I'm not sure how it is that I keep on ending up in threads about copyright or trademark infringement, but my Blade Runner DVD set from several years back came in a briefcase relatively similar to this one. No Cosmic Cube window, of course, but still the finest packaging I've ever gotten in a...

Go read the court complaint. It's a delightfully entertaining fifty pages, complete with pretty pictures. To say that the two are substantially different games is to say that the riff that backs Queen's "Under Pressure" is substantially different from the riff that backs Vanilla Ice's "Ice Ice...

I was considering this overestimation, combined with the capricious nature of social gaming popularity and I came up with a sort of forecast for the future, which will inevitably be wrong, but bear with me as I go through a series of causes for what I think will cause the social/casual gaming...

Actually, since their quarterly income from games seems to be stable over the last year and their income from in-game advertising is increasing, the only way they're losing market share is from the market getting larger. Their own user-base isn't leaving them. Financially, if Zynga's doing...

This is the gist of the case, though, if you'd care to read the complaint filed with the court. The point is, Zynga didn't come up with their own art, not any more than Vanilla Ice came up with the riff that underlies Ice Ice Baby. It's different, but not significantly different enough. It's...

I just want to see the evidence that gets brought up at trial. For example, it's quite likely that we're going to see internal Zynga emails that say, "Let's copy Mob Wars," or, "Let's copy Tiny Tower." Specifically, they'll introduce one that says, "Let's copy The Sims Social," but it would...