Some bits from the legal side of gaming, and of course most of it focuses on Jack "gayrotica-is-important-evidence" Thompson.

You see, in an effort to keep his ability to practice law, he submitted a whole file of hardcore gay porn to the judge presiding over his case... it's complicated. Read all about it here.

Also (no shocker here), he's convinced that the dubious hit-target lawyer in GTA IV is modeled after him (as if he gets to claim he's special and say that every sleazy lawyer portrayal is a JT reference - what an ego!), and wants to block the release of the game. Like he wasn't going to try anyhow.

Also, the gaming industry got a big first amendment pat-on-the-back from an Oklahoma judge this week, when the state moved that games were a form of creative expression, and could not be regulated by the state any more than any other type of media (again, movies are a thousand times more gory - any theaters block Hostel from showing?). So win one for the (less un)equal measures team.