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Hawaiian politicians are getting some company on the lockbox front from a compatriot in Washington state. State Senator Kevin Ranker has introduced legislation there that...

Stretch your brain allllll the way back to 2016, when Australian courts fined Valve $2.16 million US at the behest of the Australian Competition...

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 MOP comment crew was understandably creeped out by last week's news that Tencent was going after PlayerUnknown's Battleground cheaters by working with the...

If you thought Epic Games was being too rough on cheaters in Fortnite by smacking kids with personal lawsuits, wait until you hear what...

Just before the new year, the gaming community was mortified to learn that an innocent Kansas man had been shot by police following a...

We named the sad death of Marvel Heroes the greatest MMO disappointment of 2017, and it appears it's not even over yet. Redditors noticed that on...

Were you thinking you'd escaped all impact from the Meltdown vulnerability afflicting Intel systems? Fortnite players should think again, even consolers, as Epic Games...

Former NCsoft Vice President and Blade & Soul lead producer Bae Jae Hyu has landed in legal hot water thanks to an ongoing insider...

Are lootboxes gambling? It seems like such a simple question, but it really isn't simple from a legal or ethical standpoint, and the answer...

Say you were a legislator concerned about the lootbox/lockbox gambling issues in gaming. How would you actually go about drafting a law that targets...

If you'd forgotten, Fortnite wound up bringing a lawsuit against two people for cheating software being used in the game. One such suit hit...

A formal UK petition requesting that video game gambling laws be adjusted to include language covering lockboxes passed 10,000 signatures earlier this week, ensuring...

We've been talking about exploitative gacha games and related business models on Massively OP for a long time, most recently and notably in depth earlier...

It's not very interesting to see a big company take knockoff companies to court to argue that the knockoff companies are violating intellectual property....

The 22-year-old Russian vlogger convicted of playing Pokemon Go inside a church has been hit with a 3.5-year suspended sentence. Ruslan Sokolovsky was found "guilty of inciting...

A 22-year-old Russian vlogger is facing prison time for playing Pokemon Go inside a church. Last summer, Ruslan Sokolovsky recorded himself playing Pokemon Go on...

Remember back in February when Milwaukee County in Wisconsin tried to handle the whole "Pokemon Go players are destroying parks and costing municipalities cash...

Last night's update saw the end of the Battle.net branding on the Blizzard launcher. You probably shed your tears back in September, when the...

It's all fun and games... until you start selling software to help players cheat, then it's all lawsuits and court dates. Blizzard is asking the...