According to The Cut Scene, Activision Blizzard is claiming publication rights to the upcoming action-adventure title "Brutal Legend," and is threatening developer Double Fine and new publisher EA with a lawsuit.
Continue reading...Friday, February 6, 2009
Eight months after the son of "Godfather" author Mario Puzo slapped Paramount Pictures with a one million-dollar-lawsuit, their claims to royalties from EA's "The Godfather" video game have come to an amicable end.
Continue reading...Tuesday, December 16, 2008
There's hardly a hardcore gamer alive who hasn't heard of the Red Ring of Death (RRoD), and its potential to inexplicably turn an Xbox 360 game console into a $300 doorstop. But though a multi-year investigation by journalist Dean Takahashi strongly suggests that the RRoD is the result of botched design decisions at Microsoft HQ [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, December 11, 2008
According to official court documents obtained by GameCyte, a new class-action lawsuit has challenged Nintendo's Wiimote straps once more -- and a prior 2006 case may hold the key to how it will all play out.
Continue reading...Thursday, December 4, 2008
SecuROM, the bane of PC gamers worldwide, has managed to make it into game after high-profile game this year. Mass Effect, Far Cry 2, Dead Space, Fallout 3, Red Alert 3, Sacred 2 and now even the PC version of Grand Theft Auto 4 feature the controversial DRM software. But none of the hardcore titles [...]
Continue reading...Monday, November 24, 2008
When GameCyte broke the news Thursday that the makers of Rock Band were under legal fire for producing flimsy plastic drum pedals, we expected that Harmonix and company would realize the value in keeping such matters relatively quiet so as not to spark any online ire. Faced with the likely choice between hearing "We do [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, November 20, 2008
You can't throw around $300 million dollar bonuses without someone noticing. Tuesday, alleging that the creators of popular music game Rock Band had shipped defective drum pedals in a scheme "designed to deliberately cheat large numbers of consumers out of individually small sums of money," lawyers for Kansas resident Monte Morgan slapped all four -- Harmonix, [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Activision Blizzard has been awarded $6 million in damages from MDY Industries, maker of the popular MMOGlider auto-grind software used by World of WarCraft players.
Continue reading...Friday, September 19, 2008
GamePolitics is reporting that for over a year, former RIAA attorney Karin Pagnanelli has pursuing copyright infringement lawsuits on behalf of Activision -- and has so far obtained five settlements totaling $326,000. That sum of money isn't particularly notable, until you realize that the bulk of that $326,000 is coming from three individuals whose lives [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Okay, perhaps Tecmo president Yoshimi Yasuda isn't being terribly stealthy about his departure from the lawsuit-laden company, but there's still a touch of mystery about his resignation. Kotaku reported the news this morning that Yasuda tendered his resignation to the Tecmo board of directors, and the board will appoint its current chairman, Yasuharu Kakihara, to [...]
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