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Crytek’s latest legal maneuvering against CIG suggests Squadron 42 won’t release this summer
The long, drawn out, snail-paced legal fight between CIG and Crytek has taken one more step, but this one seems to have some direct...
There’s another Fortnite dance legal battle brewing, this one over Dancing Pumpkin Man
Remember back when gobs of entertainers were trying to sue Epic Games for taking their dances and shoving them into Fortnite to sell them...
An MMO character ‘worth’ $1.4M was sold in China for $552
So here's a fun story of people being particularly... odd. Let's go with odd. Player A, hereafter referred to as "Scrooge McDuck," spends the...
Lawful Neutral: When Marvel sued NCsoft over City of Heroes
One of the biggest MMORPG genre stories over the last year has been the ongoing saga/drama around the bizarre but very much welcomed rebirth...
Fortnite’s Epic Games cracks down on leakers and banned streamers
It's a bundle of Fortnite-related news, and not the fun kind about updates or other things. It's a bundle of... well, of awful things,...
Serious EA data breach exposes 1,600 FIFA 20 accounts
There is nothing quite like that gut-wrenching feeling when you hear a story about a data breach and then have to do that quick...
Montreal law firm wants to launch a class action lawsuit against Fortnite for being addictive to minors
Montreal law firm Calex Légal has officially filed a request to launch a class action lawsuit against Epic Games and its Canadian subsidiary for...
Steam users in France should be allowed to resell their games according to French court ruling
The Union fédérale des consommateurs (Federal Union of Consumers or UFC Que Choisir), a French consumer group, has been pursuing litigation against Valve over...
Blizzard’s lawyers are busy again, this time suing yet another overseas company for ripping off WoW
Another day, another Blizzard lawsuit - this one lodged against the Chinese purveyor of Glorious Saga, a mobile/browser title from Joyfun/Sina Games that pretty...
Riot settles class action discrimination lawsuit as victims claim victory
Last year, Kotaku published a brutal exposé of Riot Games’ culture, replete with sexual harassment and sexual discrimination problems. In response, Riot promised a...
The 2015 ArcheAge lawsuit finally nears a conclusion in the form of a settlement agreement
Lawsuits can be pretty long, but this one was a doozy. Let's review: In 2015, several ArcheAge players filed a class action lawsuit over...
Fortnite hit with data breach lawsuit, Fortnite champ is swatted live on stream
Epic Games and Fortnite are not having the best week. First, according to Polygon, the company's been hit with a class-action lawsuit in North...
Pokemon Go studio Niantic is suing PokeGo++ hackers ahead of Harry Potter: Wizards Unite’s launch
Niantic and Pokemon Go have been no stranger at all to lawsuits over the years - it's just that most the suits have been...
California says Riot Games is refusing to fully cooperate with its gender discrimination investigation
The Riot sexual harassment and gender discrimination fiasco is coming up on its anniversary this summer, and from a legal perspective, it's only just...
The ArcheAge consumer lawsuit against Trion Worlds is still inching onward
It seems weird to be writing about Trion Worlds again, but here we are. MMO players will recall that back in 2015, three gamers...
Riot says it will allow arbitration opt-outs, eventually, but it probably won’t stave off the walkout
The continuing fiasco that is League of Legends' Riot Games continues today, though today's update is a good sign for workers at least. As...
Riot Games acknowledges employees planning walkout over company culture
Over the weekend, we once again covered the continuing fiasco that is League of Legends' Riot Games, when as Kotaku first reported, two of...
Riot is trying to divert its employees’ gender-discrimination lawsuit to arbitration
Hoo boy. Just when it was starting to look like the seemingly interminable saga of Riot's sexual harassment and gender discrimination scandal couldn't get...
Amid crunch allegations and another dance lawsuit, Epic Games challenges Steam to buff developer payouts
The conflict between Steam and its newest challenger, the Epic Games Store, has thus far been a Cold War of sorts, but the other...
PUBG Corp. is suing over the Chinese term for Chicken Dinner as Update 28 goes live
PUBG Corp. is back in court, and this time it's suing not another game company or clone but the Chinese bureaucracy itself.
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