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...

If you cast your minds back to heady days of 2017, you might remember we reported on an impending lawsuit, in which AM General LLC was taking Activision to court over the unauthorised depiction of "Humvees" in the Call of Duty series. Some ...

After the launch of the Wii, Nintendo found itself up against multiple lawsuits, mostly regarding the design of its motion-sensing controller, the Wii Remote. iLife Technologies was one such plaintiff, claiming that the Wii Remote infringed...

Riot Games will collectively pay out at least $10 million USD to every woman employee who has worked for the League of Legends developer for the last five years. The payout, reported to be one of the largest in Californian history for such ...

For nearly the entirety of 2019, Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford has been embroiled in a messy legal battle. Pitchford and former Gearbox attorney Wade Callender (who were childhood friends) sued and countersued each other. Pitchford alleged th...

Acclaimed game composer Bobby Prince (known for his work on Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, and Duke Nukem 3D) has filed a lawsuit against Gearbox Software, Valve, and Randy Pitchford for unlawful usage of his work in Duke Nukem 3D: 20th Anniversary ...

Nintendo has won a UK-based court case that effectively forces several ISPs in Britain to ban access to websites that facilitate piracy on Nintendo Switch. Four specific sites have already been locked out, with the new ruling taking immedia...

[Update: After posting last night, we reached out to 3D Realms for a statement on the lawsuit. It responded with the following: We've recently heard about a lawsuit filed in California by the band Iron Maiden, claiming our old-school first...

On the 29th of May, Australia’s consumer watchdog launched legal proceedings against Sony’s European division -- the branch of the company that operates within Australia -- over allegedly misleading consumers of their legally pr...

At the start of May, employees at League of Legends developer Riot Games held a protest at the studio to oppose (among other factors) Forced Arbitration of staff, a contract clause that - succinctly - makes it nigh-on impossible for interna...

Yesterday, over 150 employees walked out of Riot Games' offices in Los Angeles to hold a "down tools"-style protest over the League of Legends publishers handling of recent discrimination lawsuits. The protest was also directed at the compa...

The Red Dead drama is over between Take-Two Interactive, Rockstar, and the Pinkertons. In January, Pinkerton Consulting & Investigation sent a cease and desist letter to Rockstar and its parent company Take-Two over the use of the ...

All plaintiffs who have filed suit with Epic Games over the use of their "trademark" dances in battle royale title Fortnite have been forced to drop their lawsuits, temporarily at least, following a new ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court.Th...

Alfonso Ribeiro has been denied copyright approval for his lawsuits aimed at titles such as Epic Games' Fortnite and Take Two's NBA 2K19. Ribeiro had attempted to file against these titles for using the "Carlton Dance" emote, made famous by...

Just before the turn to 2019, Star Control: Origins was removed from Steam and GOG due to a DMCA takedown notice from two of the creators behind the original series. Publisher of Origins, Stardock, took to the Steam community forums to to l...