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News of the Week; May 31, 2017
GAMES Uzbekistan bans video games that ‘threaten stability’: Games barred from sale include Grand Theft Auto and The Sims World Of Tanks Developer Gets Negative Review Video Taken Down Under Threat Of Copyright Claim, Backlash Ensues Hackers jailbreak permanent mods onto Super Mario World save files: Incredible hack perpetually alters game through nothing but controller input. Instead […]
News of the Week; May 24, 2017
GAMES Does Valve really own Dota? A jury will decide: Federal court case could hinge on 2004 forum post granting “open source” license. Jury to decide whether Valve owns DOTA: Two games studios challenge the company’s ownership to DOTA Valve’s ownership of Dota 2 is set to be decided by a jury Why Texas may have lost its […]
News of the Week; May 17, 2017
GAMES Judge Explores Boundaries of Authorship With Nods to ‘Star Wars,’ Spike Lee and ‘Love Actually’: Modded video games get likened to movies in a tour de force of legal writing. Blizzard Entertainment, Inc., and Valve Corporation v. Lilith Games (Shanghai) Co. Ltd. And uCool, Inc. (U.S. Dist. Ct., Northern District of California) ZeniMax extends […]
News of the Week; May 10, 2017
GAMES Russian Who Played Pokemon Go in Church Is Convicted of Inciting Hatred Diego Maradona settles with Konami over likeness dispute: As part of the settlement, the legendary player will sign a deal this month to promote Pro Evolution Soccer Bethesda Trademark Bullying Results In Indie Game Adding A Whole Letter To Its Name, But […]
News of the Week; May 3, 2017
GAMES ZeniMax pressures Prey for the Gods devs to make a name change Prey developer: Go ahead, use Steam refunds to demo our game – Colantonio – “Steam players can just return the game” before playing for two hours. Nintendo issues unsurprising take down notice for fan-made Zelda: “Breath of the NES” developer publishes email from NoA attorney […]
News of the Week; April 26, 2017
GAMES Two-year jail sentence for teen who hacked Xbox: Convict carried out more than 1.7m cyber attacks and enabled further crimes globally Teenager behind Microsoft and Sony hacks jailed for two years: “I have a duty to the public who are worried about this,” says judge. Creator of DDoS program used against Minecraft and RuneScape sentenced to prison Game […]
News of the Week; April 19, 2017
GAMES Sweeney: “The future of the games industry? Make everyone a creator” – The Epic Games CEO discusses the importance of open platforms, the benefits of non-games projects and why he’s preserving a forest Twitch Builds Innovative Features For Its Most Popular Game, ‘League Of Legends’ 2022 Asian Games adds eSports as medal sport: Professional […]
News of the Week; April 12, 2017
GAMES Maradona sees red as he sues ProEvo over image rights Oculus has filed a motion to request a new trial against ZeniMax Oculus wants a new trial in ZeniMax case: VR company says initial verdict was “tainted” and the $500 million damages “excessive” New report delves into the dodgy world of PSN account reselling […]
News of the Week; April 5, 2017
GAMES Blizzard awarded $8.5M in damages following copyright infringement lawsuit Blizzard awarded $8.6m in Bossland lawsuit: German cheatbot company failed to appear in court, ordered to halt sale of Blizzard related products in the US Nintendo v. King: Answering Questions, and Raising New Ones, About Technological Protection Measures UK ad authority rules against Liberators dev for misleading […]
News of the Week; March 29, 2017
GAMES Playtonic removes controversial YouTuber JonTron from Yooka-Laylee: “We do not endorse or support JonTron’s personal viewpoints” JonTron Loses Out On Video Game Role After Racist Rant JonTron Out As Voice In ‘Yooka-Laylee’ Australian Classication Board reverses Outlast 2 ban: After refusing to rate survival horror game, regulators have now cleared it to launch as […]