The ESA (Entertainment Software Association) has long been fighting the piracy of video games and are getting increasingly concerned by its rate of growth. In fact, the association estimates in the month of December 2008th over 6.5 million gamers were illegally downloaded.

While the whole world is to be blamed, the ESA focused in on two countries, Italy and Spain, and have said that they make up for 17.1% of and 15.1% of the world’s video game piracy, respectively.

Despite waging a seemingly endless war, the ESA says they will continue to fight piracy.

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It seems that the Entertainment Software Association is fed up with the Chicago Transit Authority’s advertising policy on M and A/O rated games and have decided to take it to court.

Now you may think it’s the CTA’s decision what they put on their buses and subways but the ESA’s argument is that there is no ban on R-rated movies or the like. This has led the ESA to suggest that this violates their constitutional right of free speech.

The ban on M and A/O rated games apparantly went down in January of this year but only now has the ESA decided to do something about it. We’ll keep you posted as this story unfolds.

via Kotaku

This year’s Electronic Entertainment Expo only recently ended, yet the Entertainment Software Association has already dated next year’s event. E3 2010 will be held during June 15-17 and hosted at the Los Angeles Convention Center once again. No reason given on why the schedule is a little later than this year, but it doesn’t make much of a difference.

The attendance for this year’s event grew by 820% from 2008, and is being called a “success” by the ESA. My guess is that the formula will be the same next year, seeing the overwhelming positive response for the last few days as compared to 2007 and 2008.

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