Multiplayer Network Innovations, LLC has added Activision Blizzard, Electronic Arts, Tecmo Koei Games Co., Ltd., Iron Galaxy Studios, LLC, Tencent Holdings Limited, and Tencent America to its growing list of court room combatants in multiple lawsuits claiming that these companies violate an abstract patent for "Interactive Multiple Player Game System and Method of Playing a Game Between at Least Two Players," or "MNI."

California often marches to the beat of its own drum when it comes to national issues still being debated in the public forum and it often wields the power of influence on important issues. One of the issues that state regulators will be focusing on tomorrow is net neutrality, according to the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Read more

The critics of Worcester, Massachusetts give ISP Comcast two thumbs way, way down; the city council in Worcester, MA does not want Comcast coming anywhere near its residents and is being very vocal about it. The town is currently serviced by Time Warner Cable, but if the proposed merger between the two ISPs gets approval from the Justice Department and the FCC, it could end up taking over that cable system.

The city of Worcester is not interested in that happening.

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The latest Humble Bundle offers a handful of HTML5 based games for very little cash in support of some fine charities. The Humble Mozilla Bundle (powered by asmjs.) offers browser based games like Super Hexagon, Osmos, Zen Bound 2,  Dustforce DX, and more for as little as $1. Pay $8 or more will receive all of the above plus Democracy 3. All of the games can be taken for a test drive right on the Humble Bundle site before you buy them too.

Robin Hunicke, the game designer and producer responsible for creating Journey at thatgamecompany, has been hired by the University of California Santa Cruz as Associate Professor of Art & Game Design. Hunicke will officially join the faculty in January 2015 and be in charge of leading the new undergraduate program in Games and Playable Media at UC Santa Cruz.