Patent Strategy in the Game IndustrySource: Gamasutra
Patents have always had an important role in the game industry and that role is growing in importance each year. People in the industry have mixed feelings about using patents, and everyone agrees the patent system could use some structural improvement.
Rampant piracy threatens PC gamesSource: BBC News
Rampant piracy is threatening the future of the PC games industry, Todd Hollenshead, head of Doom 3 creator Id software has said.
He warned that unless the problem was tackled some companies could relegate the PC to a second tier platform.
The Ten Most Important GamesSource: Slashdot
Taking a page from the National Film Preservation Board, the History of Science and Technology Collections at Stanford University and a group of five prestigious games industry figures have inducted ten games into a sort of 'canon'.