Today the ESA announced that Rick Perry, Governor of Texas, will be giving the keynote speech at this year’s E3 expo. Some of you might be asking “why him?” Well Governor Perry has done a lot for the gaming industry. Perry sees gaming as an opportunity to help the Texas economy grow, and has goes so far as to support the industry by providing financial incentives to game development companies.
To be honest I am not too familiar with Governor Perry’s stances on other issues; I live in Ohio. From what I have herd, though, he sounds like he has the right idea about videogames and the role they will play in the future of entertainment.
Read: Texas Governor Rick Perry keynoting E3.
The story only thickens… Wire recently reported that due the holiday Xbox LIVE outage, Microsoft is issuing a complimentary downloadable game to all current Gold subscribers via it’s LIVE Marketplace. Well, we learned today that three idiots Texans have consulted with their lawyers and decided it would a wise idea to place a class-action suit against the technology giant, stating that the outages represent a breach of contract and negligent misrepresentation for which the company is liable. The plaintiffs allege that “Microsoft knew the increase in subscriptions would increase game-play on its servers, yet failed to provide adequate access and service to Xbox LIVE and its subscribers.”
I give these guys merit for what their trying accomplish, but apparently Texas school districts do not believe in teaching reading comprehension. It took me a less than two minutes of scanning Microsoft’s easily accessible Xbox LIVE Terms of Use statement located on their website, which outlines the fact that their services are “as-is,” to figure out this lawsuit won’t do well. The full clause is printed below.
16. WE MAKE NO WARRANTY
We provide the Service “as-is,” “with all faults” and “as available.” The Microsoft Parties give no express warranties, guarantees or conditions. You may have additional consumer rights under your local laws that this contract cannot change. To the extent permitted by law, we exclude the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, workmanlike effort and non-infringement.
Although I don’t hold a degree in law, or any other collegiate degree for that matter, I can safely assume that these clowns are wasting their time and money.
Source: CNET: Bey0nd B1nary Blog
The manager of a GameStop store in Texas won’t sell videogames to children without a note from the parent verifying good grades, reports WFAA-TV in Dalla/Fort Worth.
“[The student] needs to be reading a book. He knows how to play Madden before he knows how to do his ABCs and 123s - that’s backwards!” said GameStop manager Brandon Scott, who devised the policy.
Scott claims that the policy is working, and most students turned away return later with improved grades. Continued…
