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Earlier this year, Ubisoft shut down all online services for its 2014 racing game, The Crew. As an extra step, Ubisoft also went and removed the game from customers' digital libraries. Now, the company faces a lawsuit for making the game defunct.  Two people who bought the game have filed …

Nintendo has another lawsuit on its hands. This time, the company is suing an online creator for playing pirated Switch games on stream and promoting piracy.

More details around Nintendo's lawsuit against Pocket Pair have emerged, including the three patents Palworld allegedly infringes on.

An anti-trust lawsuit levied against Microsoft over its merger with Activision Blizzard has been settled out of court for an undisclosed sum.

Stellar Blade is making headlines again this week. No, not for the expected announcement of the PC version. Instead, Shift Up, along with Sony, are being sued for trademark infringement, by a film production company that shares the same name as the PS5 game.  As it turns out, there is …

In a blog post simply titled ‘Regarding the Lawsuit', Pocket Pair has publicly acknowledged the pending lawsuit against the company, brought forward by Nintendo and The Pokémon Company. While Both parties claim Pocket Pair has infringed on patents, so far, no specific examples of patent infringement have been supplied. “Yesterday, …

Back when Palworld first went viral for its ‘Pokémon with Guns' concept, many had assumed Nintendo would try to block the game's release with legal threats. As it turns out, the game was allowed to launch but now, just ahead of the game's impending PS5 release, Nintendo has officially filed …

Valve has always had a surprisingly small number of employees, especially if you compare them to other major industry players like Epic Games, Activision, EA, Ubisoft, Take-Two and others. The company also has a policy that allows workers to move their desks between departments to join in on whatever projects …

Adobe has had a bit of a monopoly in the editing software space for a while now. With the launch of Creative Cloud and a switch to a subscription model for Adobe apps, many long-time users have complained about pricing and the subscription cancellation process. Now, the US government has decided that enough is enough, with the FTC filing a lawsuit against the company and two of the company's high-ranking executives.

Earlier this week, a jury ruled against the operators of cheat-selling site, AimJunkies, awarding Bungie tens of thousands in damages and setting a precedent for future legal cases against those making and supplying cheats for online games. Now, Activision Blizzard has had its own court success, taking down EngineOwning.  EngineOwning, …

Tropic Haze, the company behind the Yuzu emulator, is being sued by Nintendo. Yuzu has existed for a number of years already without issue, so what was the straw that broke the camel's back? Well, that would be the mass piracy of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom.  …

Cooler Master has recently filed a lawsuit against SilverStone, Enermax, and their joint OEM Apaltek. Cooler Master has accused the three companies of infringing on its patents. The complaint was filed in the United States District Court for the Central District of California.  According to TechPowerUp, Cooler Master claims the …

Back in April 2021, Wolfire Games filed an antitrust lawsuit against Valve, claiming that the company abuses its dominance of the PC gaming market and has formed a monopoly with Steam. Valve had initially managed to get the lawsuit dismissed , but after reviewing Wolfire's appeal, a judge reversed that …

There has been some sudden drama in the phone case market this week. One of the most popular case makers, Casetify, is facing a lawsuit from Dbrand, after the company was found to have copied several of Dbrand's designs.  Like Casetify, Dbrand also regularly partners up with popular YouTubers with …

We've covered a few stories on the theft of trade secrets in the tech industry in the past but usually, we don't see the culprits outing themselves to their former co-workers. Automotive technology company, Valeo, has filed a lawsuit against Nvidia alleging the theft of trade secrets after a former …

Last year, a consumer rights campaigner spearheaded a lawsuit against Sony in the UK, seeking as much as £5 billion for ‘ripping off' gamers in the UK with inflated prices on the PlayStation Store. As you would expect, Sony argued against the lawsuit, hoping to get it thrown out but …

This month, it has come to light that Lian Li is suing multiple rival PC case fan makers, alleging patent infringement. Thermaltake and Phanteks are both in the crosshairs at the moment, but Phanteks has responded, denying that it is infringing on Lian Li's daisy-chain fan patent...

This week, it came to light that Lian Li filed a lawsuit against Phanteks over the design of its D30 fans. Lian Li alleges that Phanteks' daisy-chain fan design infringes on one of its patents. Phanteks isn't the only one facing this claim, as Lian Li is also suing Thermaltake.  …

In recent years, Bungie has been looking to hamper the Destiny 2 cheating scene by going after the creators and sellers of cheats directly. Bungie has already had a few successful cases, including a $13 million payout in 2022. Now, Bungie has won another case against a cheat maker, this …

Recently, Bungie has been handing out lawsuits against cheat sellers and cheat creators, looking to stamp out cheating in Destiny 2. For the most part, Bungie is winning these cases, but it ran into a wall earlier this year when AimJunkies counter-sued the company.  Bungie has previously filed a lawsuit …

Atlus has filed a lawsuit against a group of Shin Megami Tensei fans for creating and operating servers for its defunct Shin Megami Tensei MMO ‘Imagine Online'. The game shut down back in 2016, but fan servers have kept the game alive in the years since.  Over the years, many …

Recently, Bungie has been handing out lawsuits against cheat sellers and cheat creators, looking to stamp out cheating in Destiny 2. For the most part, Bungie is winning these cases, but it ran into a wall earlier this year when a lawsuit against AimJunkies was dismissed by a judge. Now, …

It would seem that Sony has a new lawsuit to contend with, as the company is reportedly being sued in the UK for 'ripping off' PlayStation customers by as much as £5 billion. 

Recently, Bungie has been handing out lawsuits against cheat sellers and cheat creators, looking to stamp out cheating in Destiny 2. For the most part, Bungie is winning these cases, but it ran into a wall earlier this year when a lawsuit against AimJunkies was dismissed by a judge. Now, …

Several years ago, Apple debuted a new keyboard design for its MacBook laptops, using ‘butterfly' key switches. This turned out to be a disastrous move, with many customers facing issues with their keyboards easily breaking. At the time, Apple set up a free repair program, but there was still a …

A couple of weeks ago, we learned that Bungie is suing a Destiny YouTuber for violating ToS, sabotaging Bungie's business and harassing employees. Now, Bungie is suing another Destiny content creator, this time for repeated ban evasions and threats towards company staff.  Bungie has filed a lawsuit (via TGP) against …

After seemingly joking about it earlier this year, Elon Musk made a bid to acquire Twitter in April 2022, offering $43 billion for control of the company. Shortly after, Musk put the deal ‘on hold' while awaiting accurate information on the number of spam bot accounts on the platform. Now, …

Over the last few years, Bungie has been tackling Destiny 2  cheats with lawsuits, suing the developers and companies selling cheat tools to players. This week, Bungie actually settled with the people behind a few different cheating sites, with the sellers agreeing to pay $13.5 million USD in damages.  After …

Activision Blizzard CEO, Bobby Kotick, has come under fire over the last year, with thousands of employees campaigning to oust him from the company. Instead of stepping down, Kotick decided to negotiate a lifeline deal from Microsoft, something that New York City politicians aren't too happy about.  In a new …

Quantic Dream was involved in a major public lawsuit which began back in 2018 following an expose by multiple French media outlets claiming that the studio suffers from a hostile workplace environment. Though the studio adamantly denied these reports during the trials, Quantic Dream has now released a statement showing …