GamePolitics brings word of even more potential game legislation this day. Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS) introduced a bill to the US Senate yesterday that would, to quote the bill,

…prohibit the distribution or sale of video games that do not have age-based content rating labels [and] prohibit the sale or rental of video games with adult content ratings to minors…

The text of the legislation isn’t out yet, however, so the details are still somewhat sketchy. That stated, the bill currently has no sponsors and has been referred to the Senate’s Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.

If you’ll remember, a couple of days back another important piece of videogame legislation was signed in New York. One of the law’s mandates was that “games sold at retail disclose the ratings obtained from the gaming industry’s voluntary rating system.” Such a law could provide a legal precedent for part of the legislation mentioned above.

• New York Governor David Paterson passes video game legislation
  

source pc.qj.net

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According to a tidbit taken from Chinese broadsheet Economic Daily News, Sony is now planning to enter the ultra low-cost notebook market, reportedly tapping Taiwanese electronics manufacturer Foxconn for components that’ll be used for the rumored Sony ULPC. The paper reports:

Japan vendors were originally conservative about the low-cost notebook market, but with low-cost notebooks having successfully made a clear market separation from mainstream notebooks, these vendors have decided to enter the market in the fourth quarter of this year, added the paper.

While major electronics manufacturers (Sony, Fujitsu, etc) have made known their wariness towards the new ultra low-cost personal market, they finally decided to enter the ULPC market after determining that the new consumer taste for smaller, cheaper notebooks won’t threaten their market share.

• Major PC companies threatened by ultra low-cost notebooks

source mobile.qj.net

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