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News of the Week; July 26, 2017

GAMES Augmented reality wins big in 1st Amendment legal flap: Pokemon Go craze prompted a Wisconsin county to regulate AR game play. Location-based augmented reality games now protected by First Amendment: US judge rules it unconstitutional for laws to block where AR titles may be played Judge Rules Milwaukee Flouted U.S. Constitution in Response to ‘Pokemon […]

News of the Week; July 19, 2017

GAMES Tackling mobile’s “game cloning” issue: Riot Games is trying to prevent League of Legends being ripped off by a cloning outfit, but is there more that store operators could do to protect creators? Moonton Responds To Copyright Infringement Suit From Riot Games By Threatening The Press With Lawsuits Pixelmon Minecraft mod shut down: The […]

News of the Week; July 12, 2017

GAMES Singer Suing Bethesda Over Use Of His Music In “Repugnant” Fallout 4 Commercial: The musician finds the ads to be “repugnant and morally indefensible.” Riot files suit against alleged League of Legends mobile clone maker Riot Games suing Chinese developer behind League of Legends clone: Lawsuit is reportedly the third time Shanghai Moonton has infringed Riot’s […]

News of the Week; July 5, 2017

GAMES Tencent imposing time limits on children to allay addiction fears Tencent implements time limits to curb kids’ gaming addictions: Honour of Kings players under 12 restricted to one hour per day, two for under 18s Tencent: Honor of Kings restrictions won’t hurt game revenue – “Under 12 years old constitute a small proportion of […]

News of the Week; June 28, 2017

GAMES Texas judge calls for an end to Oculus and ZeniMax’s “big, hairy fight”: Injunction hearing started this week, with Zenimax asking for $500 million additional damages and a 20% cut of Oculus’ revenue Facebook Fights to Prevent Oculus Rift Sales Ban Rockstar clarifies Grand Theft Auto V modding policy Rockstar: GTA single-player mods are “generally” safe […]