My Dinner With Halpin
A fireside chat with Entertainment Consumer Association president Hal Halpin.
In July 2006, Hal Halpin founded the Entertainment Consumer Association, an advocacy group to champion consumer rights and issues. Since that time, the organization has done its part to give gamers a voice on a variety of issues and has gone out of its way to highlight — and with the help of its members — defeat unconstitutional state and federal anti-consumer legislation all over the United States.
But the waters have become a whole lot murkier since 2006; study after study attempts to pin the ill behavior of a small segment of society on video games, the video game industry’s trade associations have lost their way and a brave new world of uncertainty awaits publishers and developers in Washington. Halpin has his work cut out for him.
With these challenges in mind, we talk to the ECA president about what the road ahead looks like. Our conversation after the break.
