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Survival MMO The Day Before struggles to secure trademark as YouTube bans its videos
Boy, we hope that you're not holding your breath for The Day Before because what was once Steam's most-anticipated title is a hot mess of...
Riot Games takes NetEase to court over an alleged mobile Valorant-lookalike
Chinese gaming giant NetEase is facing down a legal challenge from Riot Games over a mobile title that, according to Riot's lawsuit, bears more...
Myth of Empires devs copied ‘substantial portions’ of ARK’s game code according to expert testimony
It's been some time since the legal drama spawned from multiplayer strategy survival sandbox Myth of Empires has been in our headlines, so...
MultiVersus players are facing DMCA strikes for uploading footage with modded character skins
The multiplayer character brawler MultiVersus has seen itself gain plenty of fans and made some strong impressions on two of our own writers. However,...
GDC 2022: Control, revenue, scarcity, ethics, and the human challenges of the gaming ‘metaverse’
While some panels at GDC 2022 have been deeply disappointing, the panel titled "A Brave New (Virtual) World: Ethics and Governance of XR and...
Myth of Empires dev appeals Steam ban in court as infringement case seeks source code expert
The legal drama spawned by multiplayer strategy survivalbox Myth of Empires has once more taken a laborious, plodding step forward. Readers will recall that...
SoulWorker’s original developer threatens play-to-earn copycat MMO with legal action
Not quite a year ago, Gameforge sunsetted the western version of SoulWorker, and the game reverted back to the game's original Korean developer, Lion...
MMO Business Roundup: Unionbusting, Kakao, sportswashing, DDOS attacks, plagiarism, and PUBG
Welcome back to another roundup of MMO- and MMO-adjacent industry news. I'm sorry.
Raven Software: The internal Activision studio that saw first a strike and...
Survival strategy MMO Myth of Empires is delisted on Steam over copyright infringement allegations
At the end of November we cast a spotlight on the recent Steam early access launch of the game Myth of Empires, a combination...
Wargaming has censored another content creator’s World of Warships videos
It hasn’t been the best year for Wargaming, the game studio behind war arcades World of Tanks and World of Warships, and it seems...
Blizzard and Fox are headed for a trademark fight over the Diablo name
I have to sometimes wonder if trademark lawyers claw their faces when they see certain case files cross their desks. Take, for example, an...
Cartoon Network successfully shut down FusionFall’s rogue servers
Do you remember FusionFall? It was Cartoon Network's attempt at making its own kid-friendly MMO, operating between 2009 and 2013; we took a listen...
NCsoft follows up City of Heroes code copyright filing with fresh trademark application
Do you folks remember last summer when we learned that NCsoft had filed copyright documentation for the City of Heroes game code? The June...
City of Heroes’ Homecoming rogue servers are now blocking copyright-infringing characters
Players on the City of Heroes Homecoming servers enjoyed a privilege they were never afforded during the game's pre-shutdown run time: While NCsoft was draconian...
Escape From Tarkov devs lodge DMCA strikes over YouTuber’s ‘misinformation’ and ‘negative hype’
It's been a couple of years since we had one of these stories about a game studio filing DMCA complaints in an attempt to...
PUBG Corp’s infringement lawsuit against NetEase may not be completely ridiculous after all
Last week, we wrote about how PUBG Corp is suing NetEase (and NetEase is threatening to sue everyone) over alleged copyright infringement in regard...
PUBG Corp sues Netease for cloning PUBG in Knives Out and Rules of Survival
Let the battle royale lawsuits begin! TorrentFreak caught wind of a new lawsuit in California that ought to set all the cloners on edge:...
Trademarks, copyrights, and patents: What they mean for you and for video games
Has the pace of news moved so quickly that we've already forgotten about Brendan "PlayerUnknown" Greene's statement that video games lack any IP copyright...
The US government is considering DMCA exceptions for archived online games after all
Back in 2015, an exception was made to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to allow for archival of aging video games that were otherwise...
Publisher of game blatantly lifting Final Fantasy XI assets apologizes for the game
Is the header screenshot from Final Fantasy XI or from the free-to-play Japanese title Chaos Saga? It's the former, but you could be forgiven...
