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

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...

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...

A case of gamer "swatting" in the U.S. has led to the death of an innocent father of two in Kansas earlier this week. According...

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...

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...

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...

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...

While you were eating turkey and buying loot this past weekend, the lockbox saga was trundling onward. The UK Gambling Commission has formally stated that...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Back in 2015, an exception was made to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to allow for archival of aging video games that were otherwise...

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...

Gone are the days when Chinese companies could get away with ripping off games left and right: Blizzard is going after another one of...

It always gets a bit bumpy when politics, international intrigue, and video games collide, so hold on for this one. According to CNN, Russia's Internet...