Entertainment & Sports
Nov. 3, 2010
Game Industry Watches Supreme Court
Changes in rules for the sale of violent video games, long protected as free speech by appellate courts, could be a death blow to the industry.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
In real life, using an automatic rifle capable of taking an enemy's head off from 100 yards out is a matter for the Second Amendment.
In video games, it's the First.
Courts have consistently ruled over the past decade that video games - violent or not - are protected speech. That designation has fostered several genres of successful video games that allow players to punch, shoo...
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