If you’ve been following the gaming scene in China, you probably heard about the blockbuster legal battle between NetEase’s Minecraft and Shenzhen Miniwan’s Mini World.  It’s not only the biggest damage awarded in Chinese game lawsuit but about how Chinese courts are drawing the line between inspiration and infringement. Here’s the story.In 2016, NetEase secured […]

Hi everyone, I saw a really interesting article recently that I thought I would share. Recently the Northeastern University developed a video game called RePresent to assist individuals who choose to represent themselves in civil court cases, known as pro se litigants. They have said that the game is created to demystify the legal process, […]

Hi everyone! I hope you’re all having a fantastic end to your exam season! I wanted to quickly highlight an interesting development from Nintendo’s continuous attempts to uncover the identity of the mysterious individual(s) who caused a tremendous leak of Game Freak’s, the developers for the main line series of games for Nintendo’s hit property […]

Hi everyone! A while ago, I came across some articles on Cooler Screens, the company that creates digital fridge screens that we talked about earlier this semester. Currently, they’re in a big legal battle with Walgreens. In 2019, the two companies entered into a 10-year contract to install over 45,000 smart doors in Walgreens stores. […]

Hi everyone, I came across this interesting article published by the legal department of miHoYo, the company that makes Genshin Impact and the Honkai series. You can find the original text on their WeChat public account. These game, due to their influence, has many people who dig up unreleased designs and future version information to […]

This is not entirely IP related, but something positive I saw and wanted to share during what I am sure is a busy exam season for us all! Ubisoft has recently launched Chroma, an open-source tool made to simulate colour blindness, aiming to improve gaming accessibility for approximately 300 million people worldwide affected by the […]

Hi everyone, I came across an article on Microsoft experimenting with AI recently and thought that I might make a quick post about it, given our discussions around AI in gaming. Microsoft recently released an AI gaming model called Muse AI that “can dynamically create gameplay visuals and simulate player behavior in real-time”, which, in […]

Last week Nintendo dropped their Nintendo Switch 2 Direct, which announced many of the new games releasing alongside the hotly-anticipated console. While the Direct itself was met with overwhelming positive reception (if you haven’t already, please see the Moo Moo Meadows cow becoming a playable character in Mario Kart), much of this excitement was dampened […]

President Donald Trump ran on a promise to lower prices, and he finally delivered on that promise on April 2, 2025 through the introduction of global tariff policies which dramatically lowered the value of many stocks. These new tariffs caused losses in the stock market that haven’t been seen since March 2020, and are causing […]

Hi everyone, The topic I am covering today was more popular a couple years ago but is gaining traction once more. Some of you may be familiar with Billy Mitchell the “Donkey Kong Champion” who previously held world records for scores in Donkey Kong and Pacman in the Guinness Book of World Records. The records […]

In 2024, gaming company Valve removed the mandatory arbitration clause from the subscriber agreement for its online gaming platform Steam. In a shift in legal policy, Valve now directs users to the courts to resolve disputes instead of through arbitration. The updated terms take effect either on user agreement, which includes actions like purchasing a […]

We have all probably experienced seeing gameplay of an old game and thinking it would be fun to play that game, only to find out how unrealistic buying the game really would be. Even trying to play an old Pokemon game from our childhoods, on its original hardware has become very difficult. As a result, […]

We have all probably come across virtual currencies in video games before. Fortnite has V-Bucks, League of Legends has RP (Riot Points) and Call of Duty has COD Points. Since microtransactions have become so prevalent in modern gaming, many companies have come up with their own in-game currency that players have to use in order […]