Yes. I was worried while I read the list, but known assholes top to bottom. That's nice, I guess?

Wonder how many of these guys employee lawyer trolls scumbags. looks and finds Nintendo Ninjas only one of the most bs litigous companies.

If you have the facts, you pound the facts. If you have the law, you pound the law. If you have neither, you pound the table. This is the ESA pounding the table, and the goal is to confuse the gerontocracy LARPing as lawmakers.

The way I see it there are two possible reasons:

1. incompetence: The statement in question was said by ESA's vice president for state government affairs, in other words a professional lobbyist. Video games are her day job, not her hobby. I don't know how much she actually plays herself. It may therefore be the case that she wasn't briefed properly or she got confused. The ESA is currently persuing legal action against certain private servers after all. The article contains specifics on those but in short: Those servers enable piracy, the Minecraft ones don't.
2. they are lying: the whole thing was part of a hearing on Stop Killing Games. Private servers are one of the ways to fulfill their demands. It is the industry's position that implementing those is too complicated. Each instance of private servers existing weakens the argument. So better pretend that those don't exist. After all gamers won't even learn about this statement. It's a random California state senate hearing. They don't watch those!

That's a left over from the indie days. I highly doubt they'd make that available in a new game. But in this case I think its probably a law person that has no clue about games.

Netflix has a studio that publishes games on mobile, one of their most well known product is partnering with Take2/Rockstar to port the Definitive Edition of GTAIII/VC/SA to mobile.

Netflix on mobile included games, last I knew. But I haven't had a subscription in some time.

Sort of... It's a different company that bought the name years ago when the old Atari went bankrupt. Technically it's a French publisher formerly known as Infogrames.