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Minecraft and War Thunder military leaker is sentenced to 15 years in prison
Readers might remember a story last year about Massachusetts Air National Guard airman Jack Teixiera, who was caught spreading classified military documents related to...
Nintendo’s patent lawsuit against Palworld studio is hunting for an injunction and $66K
The middle of September saw the megahit monster collecting survivalbox Palworld rouse the boundless litigious ire of Nintendo when the latter slapped the former...
MMO Business Roundup: NetEase stocks dip over internal fraud and corruption investigation
Welcome back to another roundup of MMO and MMO-adjacent business news. This edition is all about money, baby. Well, quarterly financials, anyhow. And also...
Star Citizen player reports CIG is making him sign an NDA before getting a refund
We've chronicled the weird steps players have needed to take to get refunds from Star Citizen numerous times before, but now it looks like...
US Copyright Office rules libraries can’t access old games remotely because of ‘market harm’ and recreational use ‘risk’
If you were hoping to research out-of-print video games and wanted to get access to a copy remotely, that's been made difficult thanks to...
Class action complaint alleges Ubisoft unlawfully shares personal information with Facebook
By now we're all pretty familiar with the option to log in to alternate platforms and websites through accounts like Google, Steam, and Facebook,...
Apex Legends gets transparent about drop rates in response to a recent South Korean gaming law amendment
It's a generally widely understood assumption that items are made rare purely because the drop rate numbers are fudged by game studios, but players...
Bungie faces copyright infringement lawsuit from an author over Destiny 2’s Red War story beats
It's been a long time since Destiny 2's launch, so it might have been easy to forget the Red War and some of its...
The industry’s voice actor union has called a strike against Riot Games’ League of Legends
Last night, the ongoing voice actors strike took a new turn as SAG-AFTRA announced it has filed an unfair labor practice complaint with the...
Legal analysts paint a grim picture for Pocketpair’s chances in Nintendo’s Palworld lawsuit
Last week saw Nintendo's lawyers rouse themselves from slumber and roar forth at Pocketpair's wildly successful critter-catching survivalbox Palworld as the company filed a...
Microsoft calls FTC’s Game Pass filing ‘misleading’ owing to multiplayer functionality and Call of Duty availability
Over the weekend we reported on the FTC putting a fresh legal filing before the US Court of Appeals that argued Microsoft's price hike...
UK employment tribunal says Star Citizen studio discriminated against autistic employee
While we recognize that this monetary ruling is barely a bug bite to the wrist of Star Citizen developer Cloud Imperium Games, we'll take...
Pokemon Company’s threat of potential legal action against Palworld appears to have fizzled out
During the height of Palworld's popularity, gamers threw a lot of accusations in the direction of developer Pocket Pair, claiming plagiarism of Pokemon's designs...
Sigh, yes, a man tried to bludgeon another man with a hammer IRL over ArcheAge
File this one under "why we can't have nice things:" Yahoo reported last night that a feud in ArcheAge went way too far, as...
Valve faces an $838M UK lawsuit that accuses Steam of overcharging consumers and monopolizing prices
That's right, it looks like another legal firm is hoping to take a big meaty swing at Valve's enormous and probably jowly face: The...
It’s 2024 and the ESA is still fighting game preservation, forecasting a depraved ‘online arcade’
If you're a longtime MOP reader, you might remember that back in the late teens, we followed the Electronic Frontier Foundation's efforts to petition...
Roblox walks back statements that children earning money is a ‘gift’ and not exploitation of labor
Roblox's PR department has found itself in the unenviable position of providing cover for some dumb nonsense an executive said at GDC this year....
Genshin Impact takes cheat makers to court for copyright infringement
You have to be a special sort of sad to want to cheat in a game like Genshin Impact, let alone one who would...
Microsoft insists Activision-Blizzard was planning on mass layoffs before the merger
As we've been covering, earlier this week the FTC filed a complaint to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, alleging that Microsoft misrepresented itself...
Korean Court rules man isn’t a conscientious objector because he likes PUBG
We admit that the headline for this story is pretty wild, so allow us a few moments to lay some contextual groundwork: South Korea...
