There appears to be no end in sight for the debacle surrounding Lovecraft-inspired title The Sinking City. Following the mystery-horror's removal from Steam - triggered by a DMCA request by developer Frogwares - publisher Nacon has responde...

[Update: Frogwares has issued a new statement regarding its issuing of the DMCA. "A DMCA notice proved to be our most effective tool to give us time to gain further potential evidence and to also start the required and lengthy additional le...

The furor surrounding mystery-horror title The Sinking City continues to get uglier with each passing day, as both publisher Nacon (formerly Bigben Interactive) and developer Frogwares continue to dispute ownership rights and numerous other...

Developer Frogwares has put out a succinct statement asking users not to purchase the Steam edition of The Sinking City, which recently returned to the PC retail platform following a period of commotion over the title's licensing issues. Ac...

Another day, another lawsuit levied towards the gaming industry. This time around it's Google on the defensive, as plaintiff Jacqueline Shepherd has filed a class-action suit against the industry giant over alleged misleading comments regar...

Following last week's investigations, U.S. law firm Chimicles Schwartz Kriner & Donaldson-Smith (CSK&D) has proceeded with a class action lawsuit against Sony, following customer complaints that DualSense controllers packaged with t...

There have been recent reports of a manufacturing fault in regards to Sony's new PlayStation 5 hardware, specifically its sleek DualSense controller. Multiple players have been reporting cases of the notorious "drift" issue - whereby the co...

Warner Bros. Interactive has officially secured a patent on its "Nemesis" mechanic, first introduced in 2014's Lord of the Rings-adjacent adventure Middle-earth: Shadows of Mordor and its 2017 sequel Middle-earth: Shadow of War. The U.S. Pa...

Activision Blizzard, Infinity Ward, and Major League Gaming Corp. are facing a copyright lawsuit pertaining to the popular Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Warcom operator, "Mara." The lawsuit was filed in a Texas court by Clayton Haugen, a Nor...

Last week, we reported on how Valve was facing a lawsuit over the design of its Steam Controller hardware, with manufacturer Ironburg Inventions, (acting on behalf of subsidiary SCUF Gaming), alleging that the discontinued gamepad infringed...

Valve Corporation is facing a lawsuit over allegations that it plagiarized the design of its Steam Controller hardware from a similar design already patented by another manufacturer. Ironburg Inventions, acting on behalf of third-party cont...

Despite being mired among a string of controversies, CD Projekt RED's futuristic RPG Cyberpunk 2077 achieved the biggest digital launch sales in gaming history. That's according to a new report by SuperData. As noted by the industry number-...

Following investigation by the European Commission, a selection of publishers have been hit with a combined €7.8 million EUR (or roughly $9.4 million USD) fine following accusations of geo-blocking practices. In an official ruling by t...

In the continuing saga of beleaguered RPG Cyberpunk 2077, CD Projekt RED has announced that it has taken receipt of a second class-action lawsuit, once again filed against the Polish developer/publisher on behalf of its own investors. Speak...

Koei Tecmo has announced it is taking legal action against an individual who sold unlicensed DVDs of footage pulled from the cheesecake title Dead or Alive Xtreme: Venus Vacation. The DVDs, which were reportedly made available through onlin...

Nintendo has won its ongoing lawsuit with Japanese company Mari Mobility over the latter's enterprise "MariCar," which offered tours of the streets of Tokyo in go-karts and costumes themed after the former's popular racing franchise Mario K...

CD Projekt RED has stated that it will "vigorously" defend itself against a class action lawsuit, recently filed against the Polish developer/publisher in the wake of Cyberpunk 2077's less-than-stellar launch. As reported by Bloomberg, New ...

Twitch has implemented a mass purge of videos and clips from the VOD sections of its huge user base. Thousands of clips were removed from Twitch users' archives in a mass crackdown of the use of copyrighted material on the live-streaming we...

The Department of Justice has announced that three prominent members of long-time hack-maker Team Xecuter have been arrested, as Nintendo continues its fight against the selling and re-selling of "jailbreak" devices for its range of hardwar...

A lawsuit filed by Nintendo against retailer Uberchips has reached its conclusion, with the Ohio-based Switch hack seller ordered to pay damages to the Switch manufacturer.Nintendo filed suit against several retailers back in May for the re...

WWE and Take-Two Interactive could be headed to court after a tattoo artist filed suit over the replication of her artwork being featured in numerous titles in the WWE 2K series.As noted by The Hollywood Reporter, artist Catherine Alexander...

In something of an inevitability, James Bond licence holders Danjaq and MGM Studios have put the brakes on a fan remake of Nintendo 64 classic GoldenEye 007, several years into the project's development.GoldenEye 25, which was conceived by ...

Rainbow Six Siege publisher Ubisoft has filed suit against Google and Apple for allowing a "near carbon copy" of the popular multiplayer title to be sold on the iOS and Android platforms.Area F2 is developed by Ejoy.com, a division of Chine...

You may remember that a class action lawsuit was filed against in Nintendo in 2019, pertaining to the "drifting" technical issues that were bothering a bevy of Switch owners. Well, it seems that Microsoft is next in the firing line, as a si...

The still-unreleased Atari VCS console continues to hit new hurdles en route to realisation. Back in October, consultancy firm Tin Giant resigned from project development, citing six months' worth of unpaid invoices. Now it seems that the c...