Fear remains in gaming.

While the blasphemer Jon Stewart was successful in showing reason over fear over the weekend at the rally(CURSE YOU JON FOR HURTING MY IDOL STEPHEN COLBERT), fear continues to rear its ugly head. In this case, it's the Supreme Court hearing over the case between the Video Game industry and the state of California.

The soon-to-be-ex-Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, and California Assemblyman Leland Yee are looking to ban the sale of video games to minors. So far, the industry sued and was able to prove to each court that the law itself was unconstitutional.

The law itself states this

(A) Comes within all of the following descriptions:
(i) A reasonable person, considering the game as a whole, would
find appeals to a deviant or morbid interest of minors.
(ii) It is patently offensive to prevailing standards in the
community as to what is suitable for minors.
(iii) It causes the game, as a whole, to lack serious literary,
artistic, political, or scientific value for minors.
(B) Enables the player to virtually inflict serious injury upon
images of human beings or characters with substantially human
characteristics in a manner which is especially heinous, cruel, or
depraved in that it involves torture or serious physical abuse to the
victim.

That law itself sounds alot like the Miller Test, which labels what is considered Obscene, which itself is not free speech. That didn't stop the Westboro Baptist Church from picketing funerals(Speaking of which, they are also having a Supreme Court case against Albert Snyder, who sued originally over the former picketing the funeral of Snyder's deceased son).

Now you're thinking "Oh, but the courts will declare it unconstitutional." THINK AGAIN! Despite the backings of groups like the ACLU and the United States Chamber of Commerce to companies like Activision and Microsoft, this case could go ether way. And should the courts rule in favor of Leland Yee, the results would mean that sales of violent video games to kids would be a crime. That alone would make brick and mortar retails scared like Shaggy and Scooby when they encounter the Creeper to sell almost any game that has a form of violence in it.

Arguments begin tomorrow morning on election day. If you want more, go to the link provided below.

In other news that others have reported on, Keiji Inafune left Capcom

*Insert people screaming here*

For more info on the case, you can look it up at Kotaku