I feel like I’m out of the loop.

Have they made a hard announcement that they will not have another home console generation or is that just inferred from their public strategy?

I am aware of classifications and content descriptions. I’m not in US so the ESRB are not directly relevant but my local body does something similar.

I find the actual classifications to be a bit conservative so treat them all as advisory and make my own decisions. For example my son beat these (on easy) at four years old, I don’t think we would have enjoyed them as much if we waited until fifteen:

• classification.gov.au/…/transformers-devastation
• www.classification.gov.au/…/marvels-spider-man

On the other end of the scale I can use these descriptions to see that while Saints Row (2022) is tamer than GTA5 it is still going to have content thats a bit rough for an eight year old:

• www.classification.gov.au/…/grand-theft-auto-v
• www.classification.gov.au/titles/saints-row-1

Parental controls are another question but I use then for time limits on his tablet and content restrictions on consoles and streaming services.

The way I have parental controls set up he has access to everything M or lower but MA15+ or higher requires a conversation.

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They put a lot of care into that announcement page and showing the major features visually. Great job!

Around 8 times a year.

I take my son to the barber and we have a haircut together.

If it was just myself I wouldn’t notice when my hair was long but I can see it on him so I know when its time.

Great to see!

I tend to just use the betas for a quick smoke test to check my project still builds.

The RCs are generally stable enough to use as a daily driver. And if for some reason its not then now’s the time to find those bugs before the release.

Nice!

They good!

If you call yourself the Burger King in your kitchen, there’s no trademark infringement there. However, if you start selling you food and calling yourself the Burger King, then that is a trademark violation. If you want to write Twilight fan fiction using the characters and story lines from the books, you’re free to do so. There is no copyright violation. However, if you want to profit from your expansions to another author’s work, you have to rename the characters and setting and call it “Fifty shades of grey”.

I believe in must jurisdictions its the distribution that makes it an issue not the selling. If you started handing out your “Burger King” burgers in a public place I would expect to be shut down.

Its Trademark Law in Australia.

For example Cadbury has a trademark protecting its purple (defined as pantone 2685C) from competitors in the chocolate industry. On the other hand Whiskas protecting its purple (defined as CKMY {40% C, 100% M) from competitors in the cat food industry.

Because its trademark law both only cover their specific industries so purple would be fair game if opened a business in another field, but despite the precise definitions used for the colours they would be able to argue that a competitor using a similar purple could cause confusion in the consumers and would effectively block out an area in the color spectrum.