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Korean prosecutors target former NCsoft VP for insider trading
Former NCsoft Vice President and Blade & Soul lead producer Bae Jae Hyu has landed in legal hot water thanks to an ongoing insider...
Star Citizen developer Cloud Imperium files motion to dismiss Crytek copyright lawsuit
The bombshell of December 2017 was the news that Crytek was suing Cloud Imperium Games and Roberts Space Industries, the companies behind the sprawling and...
A look back at the MMO industry’s law dramas of 2017
In all our many roundups at the turn of the year, we've never done one on the legal dramas that have affected the MMO...
Crytek sues Star Citizen developer Cloud Imperium, alleging copyright infringement
Update: We've updated with CIG's official statement to us below.
Crytek is suing Cloud Imperium Games and Roberts Space Industries, the companies behind the sprawling...
Fortnite settles one of its anti-cheater lawsuits out of court
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...
Milwaukee settles lawsuit over Pokemon Go-inspired park ordinance
The Milwaukee lawsuit sparked by Pokemon Go is finally over.
Back in February, Milwaukee County in Wisconsin issued an ordinance requiring video game developers like...
Mother of Fortnite cheater claims that her 14-year-old son is being used as a scapegoat
Last month, Fortnite developer Epic sued two alleged associates of a cheating software site as part of the studio's hard-line approach to cheaters. Makes...
The Netherlands joins Belgium in investigating lockboxes as games of chance
Earlier this week, we reported on a move by the Belgian Gaming Commission to investigate lockboxes/lootboxes in games like Star Wars Battlefront 2 to...
Bossland gives up on WoW’s Honorbuddy cheat following Blizzard’s 2017 court victories
If you weren't convinced that Blizzard defeated Bossland in its string of lawsuits already, you will be today. As The Nosy Gamer noticed, Bossland...
Black Desert devs responds to datamining dust-up with stat transparency and apologies
Remember a week ago when Black Desert dataminers dug up dirt on the game's so-called hidden stats, only to be booted off the subreddit...
Black Desert’s Reddit community erupts over Pearl Abyss’ datamining suppression
So how do you feel about dataminers? One player apparently datamined a significant chunk of info about Black Desert's so-called hidden stats, posting everything...
EA has put the kibosh on a player-run Battlefield emulator – are MMOs next?
We don't cover the Battlefield games much on Massively OP, but this particular story caught my attention anyway because of the company and subject...
Survival sandbox ROKH got bogged down in a ‘legal dispute,’ but it’s been resolved
It's been a few weeks since ROKH's last developer update, but there's a reason for that: a legal dispute.
"Two teams were investigating the source...
Blizzard sues alleged Overwatch clone, bans World of Warcraft cheaters
Gone are the days when Chinese companies could get away with ripping off games left and right: Blizzard is going after another one of...
Fortnite patches battle royale, adds BattlEye anti-cheat measures, and sues cheaters
Are you one of the 10M people who've dipped into Fortnite's battle royal mode? Or perhaps one of the 500K who played concurrently this...
FTC settles CS:GO Lotto influencer corruption complaint
It's not enough for the CS:GO community to bleed players to PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds; nope, this week it's taking another blow in the form of...
Korea’s FTC to investigate Blizzard’s StarCraft: Remastered hourly fees
The Korean StarCraft community is up in arms this week over Blizzard's rerelease of the game -- more specifically, its plan to effectively double-dip...
League of Legends skin based on soccer player Edgar Davids is going to cost Riot money
See the charming dark-skinned gent in the header image? That's the Striker Lucian skin in League of Legends. It also strongly resembles the kit,...
Crunch mode caused a young Netmarble game developer’s death, Korean government says
South Korean MMO studio Netmarble is being criticized this week for contributing to the death of an overworked game developer in 2016.
The Korea Times...
Pokemon Go is being sued over the disastrous Chicago live event
If you live in the midwest and are out only a ticket and a tank of gas for your trip to the botched Pokemon...
