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South Korea now has a law criminalizing the act of boosting in online games
Let's say you really care about your competitive rank in a video game, but you don't have the time to actually practice and get...
A judge has dismissed another chunk of Crytek’s Star Citizen engine lawsuit
Happy Christmas, Cloud Imperium.
MOP readers will recall that almost exactly a year ago, Crytek sued Star Citizen developer CIG, alleging that CIG infringed its...
Rapper 2 Milly files lawsuit against Epic Games over Fortnite dance emote
Epic Games is under fire from rapper 2 Milly, who has filed a lawsuit against the Fortnite developer that alleges that one of the...
Niantic agrees to settle the property trespass class action lawsuit over Pokemon Go
Way back in 2016, at the height of the new-news-every-day-on-Pokemon-Go, we covered a lawsuit lodged against Nintendo and Niantic by one Jeffrey Marder of...
LOTRO composer Chance Thomas loses sound company over ponzi scheme
Many Lord of the Rings Online fans are well acquainted with Chance Thomas. While not the only composer for the MMO, his work on...
There might just be a class action lawsuit over Fallout 76 refunds
If you're having fun in Fallout 76, awesome - our own Fallout fanboy certainly found some positives in the game - but other folks...
Another e-thug responsible for DDOSing SOE years back is brought to justice
Hey, remember a few years ago when there was a new Lizard Squad article like every month, thanks to the fact that the e-thug...
League of Legends’ Riot Games is now being sued for gender discrimination as sexism scandal continues
The Riot Games sexual harassment scandal has been raging for a tumultuous three months -- or longer, depending on how you look at it...
Black Desert: DDOS attacks, South Korean lawsuit, and Halloween
If you've been having problems with your Black Desert server crashing this week, you're not alone. Kakao seems to be suffering a wave of...
ArcheAge consumer lawsuit hits snag: Trion Worlds’ corporate dissolution
Remember that player lawsuit lodged against Trion Worlds back in 2015? The one where ArcheAge players Aaron Van Fleet, Paul Ovberg, and James Longfield...
Call of Duty swatter slammed with 46 new charges on top of involuntary manslaughter
Wired has a big piece out on the fresh charges now lodged against the chief defendants in the Call of Duty swatting incident from...
The Video Game Museum offers a home to Star Wars Galaxies, City of Heroes, and WildStar
It's the longest of all long shots, but WildStar could be kept alive -- and in a museum, as Indiana Jones intended. And not...
US Library of Congress grants DMCA exception for preserving online games
It's a win for the good guys, at least if you figure the good guys are on the side of preserving video game and...
Epic Games is suing still more Fortnite cheat creators
Looks like we've got another entry in the seemingly perpetual saga of game developers vs. cheat creators, as Epic Games is suing a pair...
Rockstar Games levels lawsuit against Australian Grand Theft Auto V cheat creators
It's certainly not uncommon these days to hear of game studios taking action against the authors of hacks and cheats for their games, but...
Another leg of the Oculus-ZeniMax lawsuit drama has ended as John Carmack and ZeniMax settle dispute
If it seems like we've been talking about the Oculus lawsuit for a really long time, that's because we have. The original suit itself...
Tencent is working on locking kids out of Chinese games using facial recognition tech
So add this one to your creepy dystopian nightmare-fuel bin: In the war on supposed gaming addiction, at least one corporation is hoping to...
MMO Business Roundup: FIFA lockboxes, anti-swatting policy, Fortnite on SNL, Free Guy, UO postmortem
Whenever our newsroom gets overloaded with weird industry-related articles that nobody feels like writing, another edition of the MMO Business Roundup gets its wings!
FIFA...
A laid-off Telltale employee is suing the company for violating state and federal labor laws
Though we've streamed some Telltale games with interactive/multiplayer elements, we seldom cover the studio, but we figure you'll forgive us today: At the tail...
Old School RuneScape boots employee for in-game cheating, police are involved
Jagex has apparently fired a member of the Old School RuneScape mod team for "gross misuse of moderator privileges."
"During our rigorous routine system checks,...
