Saturday, 17 May 2008

• ESA-Losing Everyone!

  
  
  
  

  The Entertainment Software Association, or ESA, first came into play in April of 1994 as the Interactive Digital Software Association. Over the years, it became known as the ESA and became the trade association of the computer and video game industry in the U.S.. The ESA holds E3 every year, fights against software copyright infringement, supports the Entertainment Software Rating Board, and they help brighten the government’s outlook of video games.

  But now, it seems that some of the top video game companies (Electronic Arts, Vivendi, Blizzard, and as of yesterday LucasArts) have abandoned the ESA. Why? No one knows. There have been press releases, but none of those have answered the question of why these top game developers are leaving the ESA.

  Feel free to post your own opinions as comments.

  
  

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