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Valve ordered to ‘stop facilitating gambling’ by regulatory body; CS:GO gambling class action dismissed
The Washington State Gambling Commission is cracking down on CS:GO skin gambling and ordering Valve to "stop facilitating gambling" and "immediately stop allowing the transfer...
A whole bunch of people filed FTC complaints over Pokemon Go
How many times are we going to have to use the word "watchdog" this week? I believe we're on the third now, and this...
UK watchdog group investigates No Man’s Sky advertising
Eurogamer reports today that UK watchdog group Advertising Standards Authority is investigating No Man's Sky following "several" complaints over the game's advertising practices.
Readers will...
Curt Schilling settles 38 Studios lawsuit with Rhode Island
Ready your "beating a dead horse" memes one last time, MMORPG readers, because baseball star and video game mess Curt Schilling has finally settled...
UK courts prosecute first-ever case involving online video game gambling
A British court case have arisen recently concerning gambling and online gaming that could set precedents for such future activities.
In the UK, two men have...
A British telecom is suing Valve over Steam
UK-based corporation British Telecom is apparently suing Valve in the US state of Delaware over its claim that Valve violates multiple patents held by...
ZeniMax amends Oculus lawsuit to accuse Carmack of stealing documents and tech
Back in 2014, ZeniMax Media filed a lawsuit accusing Palmer Luckey's Oculus of essentially stealing trade secrets, code, and intellectual property in the development of...
Pokemon Go: Michigan couple sues over game’s impact on private property
Pokemon Go is the subject of yet another lawsuit: A Michigan couple is suing Niantic, Nintendo, and the Pokemon Company in federal court. The...
Riot Games sues the makers of League of Legends hacks
Blizzard has quite happily gone after cheat-makers in court before, but now Riot Games is getting in on the act by suing the biggest...
Black Desert’s biggest bot creator is being sued by Daum
The maker of the most popular bot for Black Desert has been forced to take his creation offline following a lawsuit started by Daum's...
Rhode Island investigators will not criminally charge 38 Studios
Neither Curt Schilling's 38 Studios nor the state of Rhode Island will be subjected to criminal charges after years of investigation into the bankruptcy...
Nexon chairman steps down following corruption indictment
Kim Jung-ju is one of the richest men in South Korea and co-founder of Nexon. He also was chairman at Nexon, but he has...
Man drives a car into Nexon’s headquarters
So... last week we reminded you all that you should not threaten to hurt people over a video game. You also should not actually...
Threats against Blizzard Entertainment lead to a Sacramento man’s arrest
Maybe you're upset with the class changes in World of Warcraft. Maybe you're disappointed with character balance in Overwatch. Maybe you have specific heroes...
Cease & desist letters issued to multiple Steam gambling sites
Last week, Valve announced that it was going to start taking action against the various Steam-based gambling sites, but no details were announced at...
Valve issues a statement against Steam-based gambling sites
It was more than two weeks ago, and the subsequent weeks have been taken up by all sorts of game announcements and some kind...
Valve sued for enabling e-sports gambling with skins
According to report at Polygon this week, Valve is being sued by a Counter-Strike: Global Offensive player for allegedly knowingly allowing and sponsoring illegal...
WoW emulator Nostalrius’ sunset renews calls for retro WoW servers
As we reported last night, Blizzard lawyers issued a legal threat against popular vanilla World of Warcraft emulator server Nostalrius, propelling its administrators to begin...
Coding and cupcakes: The lawsuit against ARK
Are cupcake and coding skills mutually exclusive? That might actually be a relevant question in relation to the recent lawsuit Trendy Entertainment filed in...
ARK: Survival Evolved studio hit with lawsuit
Kotaku has reported on an ongoing lawsuit lodged by Dungeon Defenders developer Trendy Entertainment against ARK: Survival Evolved's Studio Wildcard. Trendy has alleged that...
