The Blog of Derrick James Freese

For my third critique I read an article posted on Kotaku about how the big game developing company Bethesda suing the small Indie game developer Markus “Notch” Persson. Bethesda makes the popular game series The Elder Scrolls as Notch made the popular game Minecraft. Recently Notch’s company, Mojang,  has been designing a game called Scrolls. However since Bethesda has a copyright on The Elder Scrolls, they think Scrolls is too close in name to The Elder Scrolls and want Mojang to change the name of their game. Bethesda has now decided to take the case to court.

I chose this article because it suits the conflict aspect of news. The most interesting thing that I found about this article was that Notch’s idea to solve the conflict over the name was to play a game of Quake, and the winner decided the fate of the game. Unfortunately Bethesda did not find this solution as epic and awesome many others did.

Link to the article