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League of Legends data feature in New York state lawsuit against Time Warner
Remember back in the day when you'd complain about your lag and connectivity issues in an online game, only to have the studio tell...
Valve is working on three VR titles, feeling effects of travel ban
Valve's Gabe Newell and Erik Johnson have confirmed that the company is working on a trio of VR-centric games, not cheapie experiments but full-scale...
Pokémon Go needs park permits in Milwaukee County to use park locations
The Milwaukee County Parks Department had a bit of a problem with Pokémon Go last year. It turns out that when you place various...
FIFA YouTubers plead guilty to charges under UK gambling act
Back in September, we reported on the UK's case against Craig "NepentheZ" Douglas and Dylan Rigby, the YouTubers charged under the Gambling Act with...
Shots are still being fired in the Oculus/ZeniMax lawsuit
All right. The Oculus/ZeniMax lawsuit ended, ZeniMax was awarded $500 million in Oculus money by the courts, and while the plaintiffs got less than...
ZeniMax partially wins Oculus Rift lawsuit, awarded $500M
It may not be the $4 billion that ZeniMax was hoping for, but the studio still made out well today as a jury awarded it...
ZeniMax vs. Facebook trial wraps up as damages sought balloon to $4B
The high-profile legal battle between ZeniMax and Facebook over alleged intellectual theft involving the Oculus Rift VR headset has entered a new stage, as...
Palmer Luckey took the stand in the ZeniMax/Oculus lawsuit
The lawsuit between Oculus and ZeniMax Studios is a complex one, but you knew that the person behind the genesis of Oculus and the...
Blizzard defeats Bossland bot-maker in German supreme court ruling
Score one for Blizzard: The gaming giant managed a win in its long struggle against German bot-maker and plague-on-honest-gaming Bossland GmbH.
The German Federal Court...
ARK modders fight over Pokémon projects
Gotta catch 'em all... unless we're talking about Pokémon mods for ARK: Survival Evolved, in which case there might only be one in the...
MMO lockboxes, keys, and booster packs: Gambling or gaming?
Lockboxes have become a hot topic over the last couple of years. Last month, both our writers and readers crowned SWTOR worst business model of...
Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg will testify in ZeniMax VR trial today
The stakes are high -- $2 billion dollars high -- for the outcome of the ongoing ZeniMax vs. Facebook trial, in which the former...
The $2B ZeniMax Oculus Rift trial begins
Virtual reality headsets may be but babies on the gaming scene, but already one of them has landed in hot legal water. This week,...
Frontier sues Atari over Rollercoaster Tycoon 3 profits
We may associate Frontier with Elite Dangerous these days, but there was a time in the early 2000s when the studio was widely greatly...
Video game voice actor strike continues, union claims it could aid developers
You might not realize this, but the voice actor strike that started last October is still ongoing in 2017. Video game voice actors have been...
Aussie courts have fined Valve $2.16M US over its refund policies
Recall that back in November, The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) demanded a $2.16 million US ($3 million AUD) fine from Valve following...
China bans streaming games not approved by the Ministry of Culture
China's Ministry of Culture is the government agency that covers (among other things) what imagery can and cannot be shown in a video game....
Player drops $1M of stolen money on a free-to-play game
If you could spend someone else's money on a free-to-play game without shame, how much would you blow on microtransactions and other in-game advantages?
For...
China is cracking down on MMORPG lockbox vendors
Violently authoritarian government regulates nasty video gaming monetization exploit, and gamers are cheering? Yep, China is cracking down on lockboxes. A notice from the creepy Ministry of...
UK watchdog group dismisses gamer complaints over No Man’s Sky advertising
Back in September, we reported that UK watchdog group Advertising Standards Authority was investigating No Man's Sky following "several" -- we now know it...
