Last year, the Netherlands declared that loot boxes in video games were a form of gambling. Any product containing them would be prohibited from sale without a proper license. Seemingly ready for a court battle, EA went about continuing to ...

There's going to be some messy litigation in Texas. Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford and former Gearbox in-house attorney Wade Callender are suing each other in two separate actions, both alleging that the other has breached their legal obligati...

Japan is cracking down on unauthorized key reselling, a practice that's usually differentiated from common theft by nothing more than technicalities and semantics. In revising its Unfair Competition Protection Act, Japan has outlawed three ...

[Update: Daniel Perez of Stardock reached out to me to let me know that Star Control: Origins will be available for direct purchase from Stardock's website. Currently (at the time of writing) it is 50% off, so you can grab the game for $19....

The German Consumer Protection Authority (VZBV) will be taking legal action against Nintendo for its harsh eShop "no refund" policy. Currently, users that buy items from the Nintendo eShop will not be able to request a refund for any reason...

Perhaps the most major piece of litigation in virtual reality's relative infancy has been put to rest. ZeniMax (Bethesda's parent company) has settled its lawsuit with Oculus and Facebook over copyright and trademark infringements. The term...

Andrzej Sapkowski, the author of The Witcher novel series has come back to CD Projekt Red with demands for more money citing Polish copyright law. It's all legalese and I'm only certified to practice Bird Law on a one square mile patch of d...

Belgian customers will no longer be able to purchase in-game card packs for NBA 2K's "My Team" mode with real money. In compliance with Belgian gambling laws, the "feature" was removed from all iterations of the series to keep the games on ...

China's government is notoriously picky with what products go on sale in the country. This has led to numerous instances where incredibly popular games had to be massively censored to even see release, but I don't think I've heard of a case...

Early yesterday morning, Polygon reported that Bethesda had issued a cease and desist order to Amazon marketplace seller Ryan Hupp, for his listing of a sealed copy of The Evil Within 2. Bethesda's case was that Hupp was not an "authorized ...

Nintendo has recently filed lawsuits against two popular ROM websites. LoveRETRO and LoveROMs are under legal pressure to remove all Nintendo titles from its servers and pay statutory damages of around $150,000 per Nintendo title along with...

The video game pre-ordering process just got a little tougher in Germany. In recent years, retailers would immediately list newly-announced games, and customers would pre-order them without knowing when they'd actually release. It's mostly ...

We nearly got PT on PC. At the eleventh hour, Konami swooped in and canned it. C'est la vie. Qimsar, a 17-year-old student, had been working on a "100 percent playable and 100 percent game accurate" remake of PT. He almost finished. Ju...

Around a month ago, PUBG Corp (makers of PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds) filed for a lawsuit against Epic Games (makers of Fortnite) on the grounds of copyright infringement. This was just another part of a long going feud that PUBG Corp had...

Bethesda is taking Warner Bros. and Behaviour Interactive to court over the recently released Westworld mobile game. Bethesda is citing that the game is a "blatant ripoff" of its own title Fallout Shelter, which Behaviour actually worked on...

More bad news has been unearthed concerning strained developer Telltale Games, well known for their episodic adventure titles such as The Walking Dead and The Wolf Among Us.Kevin Bruner, former CEO and co-founder of the Californian company,...

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...