Workers at Disco Elysium studio ZA/UM have unionized in the form of the newly-created Workers' Alliance, becoming the first officially-recognized UK gaming union into the bargain. As reported by the…
October 2, 2025 | 08:36 EDT
Steam has introduced age verification for UK users, with mature pages on the storefront now requiring valid credit card details showing that you're 18 or over to access. As revealed in a new FAQ,…
August 29, 2025 | 11:38 EDT
Sony has filed a lawsuit against Chinese gaming giant Tencent over the latter's open-world survival game Light of Motiram, which Sony alleges is a "slavish clone" of its own Horizon series of games…
July 29, 2025 | 09:54 EDT
Epic Games has revealed that it doesn't know whether Fortnite will be returning to the iOS platform in the UK, following the release of two CMA (Competition & Markets Authority) roadmaps…
July 23, 2025 | 09:38 EDT
Roblox has introduced new child safety tools aimed at protecting teens on its platform, including a new age verification system, an overhaul to the friends list, and more. As revealed in a news post…
July 17, 2025 | 10:59 EDT
Charlie Cleveland and his fellow Unknown Worlds co-founders have released the public text of their Subnautica 2 lawsuit, and it comes just as publisher Krafton reportedly extends its employee bonus…
July 17, 2025 | 09:11 EDT
Subnautica creators Charlie Cleveland, Max McGuire, and Ted Gill have announced that they're suing Krafton, the parent company of his now-former studio Unknown Worlds, following his dismissal from…
July 11, 2025 | 09:46 EDT
Modding site Nexus Mods has announced it's going to be making some changes in the near future thanks to UK and EU laws, and those changes will include age verification for users in those areas, plus…
July 2, 2025 | 09:12 EDT
Epic has announced that Fortnite is finally available on the iOS App Store once again, following a protracted legal battle between itself and Apple over third-party payment systems and storefronts.…
May 21, 2025 | 08:14 EDT
Palworld developer Pocketpair has revealed that recent changes to the game's mechanics are, indeed, due to the ongoing Nintendo lawsuit, and that more changes are incoming in the next update.…
May 8, 2025 | 09:05 EDT
HoYoverse has announced that all US Genshin Impact players will soon be required to verify their age if they wish to continue playing the gacha action RPG. Per an announcement on its official…
May 7, 2025 | 09:04 EDT
Nintendo is suing accessory maker Genki over the latter's "Glitch 2" Switch 2 accessory range, alleging trademark infringement and false advertising under federal and California state law. According…
May 5, 2025 | 08:29 EDT
Apple has been ordered to pay a fine of €500 million and make changes to the way its iOS store works as part of its ongoing legal battle with Fortnite studio Epic Games. In a news post on its…
April 23, 2025 | 08:59 EDT
The fallout from the current situation in the United States government continues to land on a variety of industries, but the tariffs have had an outsized impact on the tabletop market. Wingspan…
April 21, 2025 | 05:36 EDT
Nintendo has issued a subpoena request in order to discern the identity of the so-called Pokemon "Teraleak" user's identity, potentially with a view to pursuing a legal case against said user. As…
April 21, 2025 | 10:57 EDT
Skullgirls developer Hidden Variable has announced it will cease all work on the franchise owing to an ongoing legal dispute with publisher Autumn Games. In a post on Bluesky (spotted by ResetEra…
March 6, 2025 | 08:25 EST
Sony has responded to a lawsuit brought against it by ex-Bungie employee Christopher Barrett, whose employment was terminated by the Destiny 2 developer last year following allegations of misconduct…
February 20, 2025 | 09:39 EST
The Korean courts have ruled that Ironmace's dungeon-crawling PvPvE action RPG Dark and Darker did not infringe on Nexon's copyright, but that it did infringe on the company's trade secrets,…
February 14, 2025 | 10:48 EST
A fanmade Bloodborne demake that reimagined the PS4 action RPG as a PS1 game has been hit with a Sony DMCA notice, meaning it's no longer available for download. The aptly-named Bloodborne PSX (…
February 6, 2025 | 09:35 EST
The UK government has responded to a petition filed by the game preservation campaign Stop Killing Games, and if you were hoping for a major change in the law to ensure situations like The Crew can…
February 4, 2025 | 11:52 EST
The Entertainment Software Association (ESA), the gaming industry's major trade body in the US, has urged the Trump administration to "consult with the private sector" regarding incoming tariffs on…
February 3, 2025 | 11:09 EST
Sony has issued a DMCA takedown against a fan-made patch that allowed 2015 action RPG Bloodborne to run at 60FPS, sparking fresh speculation that a remaster of the game could be in the works.…
January 31, 2025 | 11:18 EST
Development on sci-fi immersive sim FPS Fortune's Run is being halted, and it's because the developer has been sentenced to three years in prison. Yes, you read that right. In a news update on Steam…
January 15, 2025 | 08:32 EST
Square Enix has updated its group harassment policy in order to better define exactly what constitutes harassment against its "group executives, employees, [and] partners". In the new policy (thanks…
January 10, 2025 | 08:59 EST
Penny Blood director and Studio Wildrose CEO Matsuzo Machida has announced that he's filed a lawsuit against production company Dangen Entertainment and its former CEO Ben Judd over "unpaid…
November 25, 2024 | 09:05 EST
Palworld studio Pocketpair has outlined the terms of Nintendo's patent infringement lawsuit against its game, and it looks like there are three patents Nintendo is basing its attack on. According to…
November 8, 2024 | 07:59 EST
Yoko Taro fan archive Accord's Library, a site dedicated to "gathering and archiving all of Yoko Taro's work", has apparently been hit by a cease and desist issued by Square Enix. According to a VGC…
October 17, 2024 | 09:34 EDT
A judge has issued his final ruling in an ongoing lawsuit between Fortnite developer Epic Games and Android owner Google, and the ruling will no doubt be music to Epic's ears. According to The Verge…
October 8, 2024 | 08:04 EDT
Another plate has been added to the ones Ubisoft is already spinning, as the studio is now facing a lawsuit from disgruntled plaintiffs who claim that it shared their data with Facebook without their…
October 7, 2024 | 09:18 EDT
Destiny 2 developer Bungie has been hit with a copyright lawsuit by an author claiming that the ideas in the game's Red War campaign are stolen from one of his works. As first reported by…
October 4, 2024 | 10:23 EDT
Fortnite studio Epic is suing Google and Samsung over a mechanism built into the latter's mobile devices constitutes what it calls "anti-competitive and unfair conduct". Per GamesIndustry.biz (which…
September 30, 2024 | 08:57 EDT
Nintendo has announced that it is suing Palworld developer Pocketpair for "patent infringement", seeking an injunction against said infringement alongside "compensation for damages". In a notice for…
September 19, 2024 | 07:54 EDT
An EU consumer watchdog organization has submitted a complaint to EU authorities regarding the use of premium currency in games, which the organization says "maximizes consumers' spending" and…
September 12, 2024 | 11:03 EDT
Unionized employees at Call of Duty studio Raven Software have filed a new labor complaint against their bosses at the company, as well as its parents Activision and Microsoft, alleging "bad faith…
August 28, 2024 | 09:09 EDT
Activision has hit a popular Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered mod with a cease and desist order just one day before the mod was due to launch. The H2 Multiplayer Mod, which would have…
August 16, 2024 | 09:59 EDT
Michael Bay's company Invisible Narratives has issued a DMCA claim against physics sandbox Garry's Mod, alleging the appropriation of assets from YouTube series Skibidi Toilet. The claim relates to…
July 30, 2024 | 09:31 EDT
Bethesda has filed a new trademark that might hint at the existence of forthcoming Starfield DLC, or perhaps (although this is much more of a shot in the dark) a followup. The trademark is for…
July 29, 2024 | 10:42 EDT
Update July 22nd 10:04AM: Microsoft has responded to the FTC's claims, calling them "a misleading, extra-record account of the facts" and accusing the commission of attempting to "reinvent its case…
July 22, 2024 | 10:08 EDT
Cloud Imperium Games, the studio behind Star Citizen, has been ordered to pay $35,000 in compensation to a disabled worker against whom the studio has been found to have discriminated. Per Game…
July 1, 2024 | 09:59 EDT
The word meeple refers to a certain game piece in the tabletop community. A tiny, stylized, painted, wooden human-shaped figure. They can be used in worker placement games or even rolled in games…
June 14, 2024 | 03:52 EDT
Valve is being sued by a UK law firm to the tune of £656m (around $840m) over claims that the Steam service is ripping off consumers owing to unfair price parity obligations. Per the BBC, UK law…
June 12, 2024 | 11:48 EDT
Nintendo has issued takedown notices against Valve and Facepunch Studios' sandbox game Garry's Mod, requesting that the game removes all of the user-generated content pertaining to Nintendo's IP from…
April 25, 2024 | 08:45 EDT
Square Enix announced that it has scored a point against the widespread manufacture and distribution of counterfeit figures from its games in China. According to the announcement made via press…
January 29, 2024 | 10:28 EST
A dispute between Remedy and Rockstar regarding the former's logo was resolved in late 2023 and is no longer ongoing, according to a Remedy representative. Earlier this week, it was reported that…
January 18, 2024 | 10:05 EST
Epic has revealed a change to the way Adults Only-rated games are distributed on the Epic Games Store, with particular reference to blockchain games. According to the storefront's new guidelines,…
December 20, 2023 | 08:16 EST
The legal dispute between Snail Games and Myth of Empires developer Angela over supposedly stolen Ark: Survival Evolved source code appears to be at an end. In a press release, Snail Games says it…
October 11, 2023 | 09:24 EDT
A new report has emerged that suggests several ex-Ubisoft executives have been questioned by police over sexual harassment claims. According to the French union Solidaires Informatique, the…
October 4, 2023 | 06:16 EDT
SAG-AFTRA has announced that it has failed to reach a deal with the gaming companies with which it has been in negotiations, potentially making a gaming strike more likely. In a rather short and to-…
September 29, 2023 | 09:20 EDT