Sony Yanks Down their Trousers and Moons Customers with Class-Action Arbitration Clause

Posted by | September 16, 2011

Sony_psn_logo In what looks to be a bid to avoid civil class action litigation in the future from users who may have lost personal or financial information when Sony gets hacked again, they’ve added language to their TOS and EULA that forces arbitration on users. This fact, recently mentioned by Kit Dotson over at SiliconANGLE, rather puts a crimp in Sony’s apparent loyalty to responsibility.

Or lack thereof,
According to an article from the BBC, the updated EULA has added a few new clauses, so-called the “Binding Individual Arbitration” clauses which compel the licensees (the customers) regarding “any Dispute Resolution Proceedings, whether in arbitration or court, will be conducted only on an individual basis and not in a class or representative action or as a named or unnamed member in a class, …

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Ghostbusters Video Game Puts New Life Into Dead Franchise

Posted by | June 15, 2009

Most companies are a little quicker on making their movie tie-in games, but hey, it’s only been twenty-five years, right? Ghostbusters: The Video Game hits store shelves today, which comes as something of a relief to us here at Vox. You see, we’re ancient and crumbling figures, shambling mockeries of life that were old enough to see the film, the first film even, when it came out. In theatres, not on DVD. With our own money. From our jobs. Yes, just like the ones your parents have. And, being gamers, we grabbed up the games made off those films.

They sucked. All sucked. Sucked hard.

So maybe it’s been a mere twenty years, but now the time draws nigh for us to finally claim what never was; a Ghostbuster’s game that isn’t made of fail and crap.

Here’s the trailer.
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LittleBigPlanet — The Creation Begins

Posted by | October 31, 2008

We’ve been keeping an eye on LittleBigPlanet over here at Vox, and not only because it’s a charming puzzley platformer with adorable characters and a theme to transform even the most cynical among us into a child playing in the back yard. Nope. LittleBigPlanet also lets you make robotic cock dinosaurs.

Gaming is play, and to us, the most important part of play is changing the rules. LittleBigPlanet earns high marks in our book because it includes the same level designer that Media Molecule used to build the game. Giving that kind of power to the players is a daring move, even more so since players can upload their levels online. The first rule of creation is that if you give someone unlimited freedom to build, they’ll use it to slap giant dicks over everything.

To help put away that sort of affair, here’s …

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