Congress is considering legislation that could kill the joy of hundreds of thousands of gamers.

I am a recent devotee of the video game Fallout: New Vegas (FNV). For those unfamiliar, FNV is a single-player, open-world, action role-playing game in which players wander the post-nuclear-war wasteland of the Mojave Desert with retro-futuristic weapons and side with factions vying for control. Here's the surprising thing: The game is 15 years old and is still being played by thousands of people every day. Even major titles usually fade into nostalgia within a few years of release. Few are routinely playing other 2010 releases, such as Call of Duty: Black Ops , Mass Effect 2 , and BioShock 2 .

One of the reasons for FNV's longevity is that the game designer, Bethesda, made it highly modifiabl

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