After declaring that it wouldn't police the Steam marketplace a few days ago, Valve has removed a couple more controversial titles from its platform. AIDS Simulator, ISIS Simulator, Suicide Simulator, Asset Flip Simulator, and Triggering Si...
Nearly a year ago, PUBG Corp. had claimed that Epic Games' Fortnite was a "carbon copy" of PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds. As preposterous as that claim may have been, PUBG Corp. is now looking to take legal action against its number one com...
[Update 05/19/18 9:55 pm: Huniepop's developer has recently posted a Tweet that they received word from Valve apologizing for the confusion and telling them to disregard previous e-mail about Huniepop's violations. The game is currently und...
The FTC reported last month that they had found "Warranty void if removed" stickers, which have been used for an age to prevent consumers tampering with their electrical goods, to actually be a violation of law, specifically the Magnuson-Mo...
Earlier this month, the FTC (Federal Trade Commission) had sent warnings to six different companies that their "Warranty Void if Removed" stickers on hardware were actually illegal. These stickers had been voiding a 1975 Act that stated no ...
Last year's release of Star Wars Battlefront II seemed to be the straw that broke the camel's back. Not even a week after the game was on store shelves, a bunch of politicians were looking into whether or not the loot boxes contained within...
It has been almost exactly two years since we first learned about Leslie Benzies' lawsuit against Rockstar. Benzies, the former head of Rockstar North and a longtime producer of the studio's biggest games, alleges that he was forced out of ...
Nuts, another mod bites the dust. Whereas Capcom and a handful of other major publishers generally let fan games and mods thrive, many other studios aren't so giving. Bethesda is one of those entities, and it looks like the massive Fallout ...
Robert Nardolillo III, a member of the Rhode Island State House, has proposed a new bill that would put a tax on the sale of all "violent video games." The goal of this bill is to funnel any extra funds into a separate pool to be used for p...
Late last year, various governments around the world started to take notice of how predatory loot boxes were becoming. In addition to the Belgian Gaming Commission holding meetings over the issue, Hawaiian lawmakers started to look into the...
On January 31, Counter-Strike co-creator Jess Cliffe was taken into custody by King County police in Washington for allegations of sexual exploitation of a child. At the time, Cliffe wasn't formally charged with anything and details ab...
Late last year, Kansas resident Andrew Finch was killed by Wichita police when a frivolous 911 call was made stating that there was a hostage situation at the address of Finch's mother. Broadly, this act is known as "swatting" -- a reprehen...
Nintendo has a lot of patent cases to sift through at any given time, which makes sense as they patent a lot of new technology. They also need to protect and enforce those patents, and they're making the case once again in a lawsuit filed a...
Squanchtendo, the VR development studio co-founded by Rick and Morty's Justin Roiland, is no more. The company will now be known as "Squanch Games."
[Update: The Belgium Gaming Commission has not actually come to a conclusion on loot boxes as gambling, according to a post from RTBF.be. Belgium's Minister of Justice simply stated what must be determined for any ruling to happen. As such,...
Whilst Nintendo appear to be the masters of consistent trademark applications, one such legal declaration, filed earlier this month, looks like a pretty amusing piece of software.The trademark is for an app intended for use with Google Home...
It's been reported by Japanese website PC Watch that Blizzard Entertainment and its partner in the Orient, Netease, are suing the developers of mobile arena-shooter Heroes of Warfare, 4399, over claims that the Android/iOS title is a rip-of...
We all know what happened. EA Sports was churning out NCAA Football games until 2013 when after the final entry, NCAA Football '14, lawsuits regarding amateur players getting paid put the series on hiatus. The NCAA as well as several i...
Sean Vanaman, co-founder of studio Campo Santo, announced on Twitter today that the studio would be filing DMCA takedowns against YouTuber Felix "PewDiePie" Kjellberg. Shortly afterwards they followed up, with all footage of Firewatch on hi...
As you may have seen, Niantic had their hands full last weekend with their "Pokemon Go Fest" in Chicago, an event that brought thousands of players out to the city. The game buckled under the stress and basically didn't work for most of the...
A fan-created server, which intended to emulate WoW's popular 2007 Burning Crusade expansion pack, has been closed within hours of going live by Blizzard Entertainment.The server, a four year work-in-progress by creator Gummy52, was hoping ...
Adam Mudd, who created DDoS tool Titanium Stresser at age 16, has been sentenced to two years in jail, The Guardian reports. Titanium Stresser, "carried out more than 1.7 [million] attacks on websites including Minecraft, Xbox Live and Micr...
Last year, Blizzard decided to take a German programmer by the name of Bossland to court for "copyright infringement." Its claim was that Bossland's cheat program, Watchover Tyrant, demonstrated unfair competition and was in violation of th...
Konami's next legal battle is coming from an unlikely source. Argentine soccer great (and brief national team coach) Diego Maradona will file suit against Konami for the unauthorized use of his likeness in Pro Evolution Soccer 2017. Maradon...
[Disclosure: Jim Sterling is a former reviews editor at Destructoid.] Almost a year ago, we found out that Jim Sterling was being sued by indie developer James Romine on behalf of his studio Digital Homicide for damages in excess of $10.7 m...
This is officially my 600th quickpost! Thanks for being cool, How about an AMA to celebrate? (I know the last one wasnt too long ago, please understand)
From An announcement from the private Steamworks group for developers / people who create items for measures to crack down on fake games including a new confidence Which has apparently already put EA games as low confiden
Watching Smash Ultimate Saw that Palkia is still a pokeball Remembered that Spear Pillar is back, which has Palkia as a Is it possible for a double Palkia to happen, therefore negating the stage rotation?
Monsterboy and the Cursed Looking pretty great!
I was going to write a long, ranting blog post about the terrible plot of Infinite Warfare, I got a couple of paragraphs in, but Ive already forgotten most of the story and all the energy for writing it is gone, so that was a waste of
This came up on my Youtube recommendations and it made me think of
I kind of want to fire up XCom 2 I just miss the
Ive been out in the sun, kept myself fed and hydrated, engaged in shared humanity with people but seasonal depression is already kicking my ass :D Even finding something new in Fallout 3 isnt helping (though it was cool to kill a dude over a nighty)
Chaos control!
Jeez louise, what a Woke up for some fun Fathers Day activities sick as Running a fever, got chills and aches, stomachs a My family has been great though!
