When Terminator Salvation was released on May 19, 2009, PC owners were in for a nasty surprise. While the Xbox 360 and PS3 versions booted up just fine, retail PC copies of the game were shipped with an error that wouldn’t allow players to install the game on their machines. We entertained the idea of Skynet corrupting PC’s so we wouldn’t learn how to take down the machines but it turns out there was a defect during the disc replication process.

Once word of this error started to spread, Evolved Games issued a recall of all Terminator Salvation PC discs across North America. Copies purchased via digital distribution were (and are) not affected by this error. Evolved Games is currently making new copies of the game and it expects to arrive in stores in a few days.

While gamers and their advocates have long since denounced California’s action as pointless, they gained a powerful ally in the LA Times. In and editorial titled “Violent video games: Who controls the joystick?,” the newspaper has taken the state of California to task for its efforts to legislate an action that should really be left up to parental units.

This is an editorial that any gamer can get behind…

The Entertainment Software Association has won a lawsuit against the state of Califronia’s Videogame Legislation and now seeks reimbursement for attorney fees and other expenses incurred during the court battle.

ESA filed a motion asking for $324,840 that would bring the organizations recouped fees and expenses close to $1.9 million. ESA’s President, Michael D. Gallagher, said the court battle could have been avoided if California state government considered ESA’s suggestion to work with policyholders on meeting the needs of concerned parents and raising awareness about videogame ratings as well as…