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11.09.2012

Gaming News:

Blizzard Faces Class Action Over Battle.net Security
GamePolitics
Security breaches become the focus of one lawsuit.

More Legal Troubles for Silicon Knights in Epic Court Fight
GamePolitics
Mire victories for Epic from a U.S. court.

Happy Action Theater used in school for special needs students
Eurogamer
How Double Fine's Kinect game succeeded where others failed.

Engineers Use Video Games as 'Cognitive Fingerprints' Instead of Traditional Passwords
Complex
Turns out that how you play video games is almost as distinctive as any other form of biometric data about an individual.

Diablo III Bans
Blue's News
The Diablo III Website announces Blizzard has recently handed out a bunch of bans to Diablo III players for violating the game's terms of service.

AT&T Breaching Net-Neutrality Rules Despite Lifting Some FaceTime Restrictions
Wired
AT&T continues to breach net-neutrality regulations despite an announcement that it would begin offering Apple’s FaceTime service to more of its iPhone and iPad subscribers, digital rights groups said.

Video Game Industry Faces Declines in October
PC Magazine
The video game industry continued its downward slide in October with double-digit, year-over-year declines in sales of hardware and software, according to the NPD Group.

Legal Opinion: Queensland’s R18+ legislation is sensible, but already dated
Games On
The R18+ games legislation introduced to the Queensland Parliament a week ago, aren't going to change..

NASA & ESA Test Interplanetary Internet Using LEGO
The Escapist
An astronaut on the International Space Station has successfully controlled a LEGO robot using technology designed to be the internet for space exploration.

A Character Study
Gameological
Complete this crossword and tell Gameological, “Who came first?”

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