video games

What do actress Lindsay Lohan, former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega, and U.S. World War II General George S. Patton have in common? Each is involved in a right of publicity lawsuit brought against video game companies earlier this year. Lohan, Noriega, and Patton’s estate have each filed lawsuits alleging that ...

“A celebrity might fall in love with your math teacher,” but, in Nintendo’s new Sims-like game, your characters cannot be gay. In June 2014, Nintendo released Tomodachi Life, a 3DS social simulation game through which players import their avatars, or “Miis,” into what one game critic called a “digital dollhouse.” ...