Archive for April 28th, 2009
April 28th, 2009, 5:00 am by jsimmons
- Ever wonder what an Owlkin would look like in real life? Like, as though it literally walked right out of your screen and onto your desktop? Blizzard’s got your answer, in the most literal sense — it interviews a “World of Warcraft” player who takes in-game avatars and recreates them with paper, a craft called “papercraft.” Blizzard
- Blizzard’s got new fan art up — this time, focusing on “StarCraft II.” Blizzard
- The Worlds.com vs. NCSoft lawsuit moved from Texas to California. Massively
What does this mean for Blizzard? Well, Worlds claims that it owns the patents that allow persistent online worlds that use avatars — you know, worlds like “Everquest II,” “Warhammer Online” and “World of Warcraft.” Secondly, the district the case was to be tried in was notorious for its pro-plaintiff interpretations of copyright law, so the move will likely favor NCSoft. If NCSoft wins, any future action that Worlds.com could take against Blizzard (or any other company that produces an avatar-based persistent world) would face a significant uphill battle.
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