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An EVE Online corporation has been hit with a GDPR request from an ex-member

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We often talk about how EVE Online can sometimes mirror the real world in startling detail, with its complex politics, global power struggles, and player-run...

Bethsoft and Behaviour resolve their lawsuit over Westworld and Fallout Shelter

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One of the key gaming legal disputes of 2018 was the lawsuit lodged by Bethsoft against Behaviour Interactive, specifically focused on the release of...
Theoretically there's a non-jerk version of this out there, but...

China is approving games again, but none of them is from Tencent or Netease

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After nearly a year of being frozen, China's approval process for games lurched into life once more in December, with 80 titles approved in...
This is where you end with your games that require mods. Forever recall this.

Fallout 76 asks banned players to submit a 500-word essay on why cheating is wrong

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So we all know that Fallout 76 is a buggy mess by this point, which means that until it becomes not a buggy mess,...
THE LAW

FBI seizes 15 different websites hiring out DDoS services

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Isn't it awesome that you can go to a website, pay some money (or Bitcoin, of course this would take Bitcoin), and then have...

Escape From Tarkov devs lodge DMCA strikes over YouTuber’s ‘misinformation’ and ‘negative hype’

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It's been a couple of years since we had one of these stories about a game studio filing DMCA complaints in an attempt to...
Whooops.

Netmarble’s appeal over deceptive lockbox practices has been dismissed

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Even South Korea is getting mighty tired of lockboxes... or at least, tired of scuzzy business practices associated with them. Netmarble had been fined...
lol

ZeniMax and Oculus have finally settled their multi-year lawsuit – out of court

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When John Carmack and ZeniMax settled their long-running legal dispute earlier this fall, we noted that the companies were continuing to appeal how much...

UK parliament committee will investigate addictive tech, lootboxes, and harmful gamification

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Given that UK researchers this year found a "relationship between problem gambling and the use of loot boxes" as well as determined that problem...
Someone must have had fun with this at some point, right?

South Korea now has a law criminalizing the act of boosting in online games

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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

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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...
No, this isn't it.

Rapper 2 Milly files lawsuit against Epic Games over Fortnite dance emote

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Epic Games is under fire from rapper 2 Milly, who has filed a lawsuit against the Fortnite developer that alleges that one of the...
I'M A FOOTBALL STAR, I'M POPULAR

Niantic agrees to settle the property trespass class action lawsuit over Pokemon Go

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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

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Many Lord of the Rings Online fans are well acquainted with Chance Thomas. While not the only composer for the MMO, his work on...

The FTC commits to investigating video game lootboxes following US Senate subcommittee hearing

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Readers following the long-running lootbox/lockbox debate will recall that back in February of this year, New Hampshire Senator Maggie Hassan, who sits on the...

There might just be a class action lawsuit over Fallout 76 refunds

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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

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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...
Ahem.

League of Legends’ Riot Games is now being sued for gender discrimination as sexism scandal continues

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The Riot Games sexual harassment scandal has been raging for a tumultuous three months -- or longer, depending on how you look at it...

Take-Two seems to have strong-armed a British tech site over Red Dead Redemption 2 leaks

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According to recent reports from Variety, Kotaku, and Gamasutra, British technology website TrustedReviews has pulled a February article that published leaked information about Rockstar...

Black Desert: DDOS attacks, South Korean lawsuit, and Halloween

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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...

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