From The Escapist:

ECA President Hal Halpin said last week that this is "perhaps the single most important challenge [the videogame industry] has ever faced in the U.S.," and that's no overstatement. A Supreme Court ruling could enshrine once and for all the First Amendment rights of videogames, finally giving them equal footing in the eyes of the law with other forms of creative expression. Or it could rule that games, as an interactive medium, are an exception to the rule and that such protections do not apply. In other words, that individual states can (and most certainly will) regulate their sale and distribution.

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