I am now on the advisory committee for the Game Developers Choice Awards, so I wanted to mention that this year’s nominations for three key awards are open until November 30th, to qualified industry professionals. The three awards are, in Gamasutra’s words:

• The Ambassador Award honors an individual (or group of individuals) who has helped the game industry advance to a better place, either through facilitating a better game community from within, or by reaching outside the industry to be an advocate for video games to help further the art.
• The Pioneer Award celebrates those individuals who developed a breakthrough technology, game concept or gameplay design at a crucial juncture in video game history, paving the way for the myriad developers who followed them.
• The Lifetime Achievement Award recognizes the career and achievements of a developer who has made an indelible impact on the craft of game development.

The Romantics sue ‘Guitar Hero’ maker – CNN.com

The band’s attorneys tell the Detroit Free Press for Thursday’s edition that Activision properly secured permission to use “What I Like About You,” allowing it to record a cover version.

But they say by creating an imitation so much like the Romantics’ original, the California-based company infringed on the group’s rights to its own likeness.

What I don’t like about you, Romantics, is that you seem to have missed the whole point.