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Chinese gamers beware: Tencent’s games now tattle on minors using facial recognition
Tencent, the company that owns like half of the world's online titles at this point, is doing the Chinese government a solid by taking...
Roblox is being sued by music publishers over song infringement claims
It was probably only a matter of time before someone actually did something about the fact that Roblox is and has largely always been...
MMO Business Roundup: Chicken Drumstick, 9000 zombies, Valorant Mobile, Pantheon hiring, Secret World’s novels
Welcome back to our semi-regular roundup of MMO and MMO-adjacent gaming industry news.
Chicken Drumstick: Yes, I'm afraid this is a real thing. Vice's Motherboard...
Apple claims it competes with Nintendo and Microsoft, Epic outlines Apple iMessage’s cross-platform blocking
We're still about a month away before the Epic vs. Apple legal fight moves to its May 3rd bench trial, which means we've still...
New UK research finds opening lootboxes is ‘structurally and psychologically akin’ to gambling
The mountain of research-based evidence against lootboxes has had another leaflet added to the pile. A recent report from researchers at the universities of...
Arizona moves forward with legislation that will force Apple and Google to allow alternative payment options
While Apple and Google likely breathed a sigh of relief when a proposed North Dakota bill that would require the mobile platforms to allow...
MMO Business Roundup: Apple’s Steam subpoena, CCP on the cheap, and Valheim’s 4M
Welcome back to yet another MMO and MMO-adjacent business news roundup - it's the season for these shenanigans, you know.
Valve and Apple: Remember earlier...
Apple attempts to draw Valve into its legal fight with Epic Games via a sales data subpoena
If that headline reads like things in the Epic vs. Apple vs. Google case are getting messy, well, yes. Let's try to break this...
House financial services committee investigates Gamestonk as investors sue Reddit ‘agitator’
As promised, the US House Financial Services Committee held its hearing on Gamestonk yesterday, and to read some of the coverage, you'd think the...
Epic Games lobbies for a North Dakota bill that would force Apple and Google to allow alternative payment systems
Considering Epic Games' legal interest in seeing Apple and Google allow for alternative payment systems and app stores, this bit of news makes perfect...
Lawful Neutral: The bizarre corporate effort to buy RuneScape studio Jagex
Would it really be a new year without Runescape developer Jagex being involved in some sort of weird corporate sale only to be blocked...
NCsoft Korea’s office literally turns away employees who have worked too many hours
It's not too terribly often we get the opportunity to report on gaming companies doing the right thing by its employees (even if it...
World of Warships was reprimanded by advertising regulators over misleading lockbox promo
We're 22 days into 2021 and we haven't had a gaming lootbox mess yet, but that ends today.
As MMO Fallout first reported, the Cyprus...
EU fines Valve, ZeniMax, and other gaming companies almost $10M for antitrust geoblocking
The EU is cracking down on multiple games companies this week, finding them in violation of market regulations. The European Commission announced today that companies...
Epic Games brings Fortnite complaint against Apple and Google to the UK Competition Appeal Tribunal
While understandably most of the attention in the Epic vs. Google and Apple legal scuffle has been focused on the suit being heard in...
Lawful Neutral: 2020 was the year that wasn’t for MMO legal news
It seems surreal, but it is that time of the year again when we wax nostalgic about the year that was. Well, maybe this...
MMO Business Roundup: Twitch’s anti-hate policies, Cyberpunk’s concurrency, and the CASE Act
Welcome back to our irregular roundup of MMO (and MMO-adjacent) industry news!
Twitch: This week, Twitch introduced yet another round of policy changes in regard...
Epic is suing Apple in Australia over Fortnite as Apple halves its profit cut from indie devs
You might think Epic Games' primary business is video games or video game engines, but as it turns out, it's fast becoming "filing lawsuits."...
iOS players may be able to play Fortnite after all thanks to Nvidia’s cloud gaming service
As the ongoing "titans into tweens" legal slap fight between Epic and Apple wears on, players of Fortnite on iOS have been left twisting...
What’s going on with Epic Games’ lawsuit against Google?
Ever since Epic Games took its festering feud with Apple to the courts back in August, lawsuit news has focused on that specific fight...
