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EA Being Taken To Court Over Broken Battlefield Promise

EA promised PS3 owners a free copy of Battlefield 1943 when they picked up Battlefield 3. When they didn’t come through, they upset a lot of gamers, both for the bait-and-yank and for the shoddy manner with which it was announced.


November 3, 2011
Nintendo

Nintendo Comes Out On Top

Three years ago Ohio-based technology company Motivia filed a patent lawsuit against Nintendo, alleging the Wii infringed on its ‘Human Movement Measurement System’ patent. Today an International Trade Commission judge ruled that wasn’t the case. Grats, big N.


September 28, 2011
News

The Elder Scrolls VS Mojang Scrolls Battle Goes To Court

In spite of lighthearted suggestions by Minecraft creator Markus “Notch” Persson that their differences be settled as gamers, the battle between developer Mojang and The Elder Scrolls publisher Bethesda is headed to the courtroom.


September 15, 2011
PlayStation

New PSN Terms Of Service Include A No-Suing Sony Clause

Have you agreed to the new PlayStation Network terms of service yet? If you have, then you’ve agreed not to take Sony to court or participate in a class action lawsuit against the company. You really should read things before you sign them.


September 10, 2011
News

EA Has A First Amendment Right To Depict Real College Football Players, Judge Rules

Electronic Arts on Friday won the dismissal of one lawsuit against it regarding its use of identifying characteristics of real college football players in its NCAA Football series. A federal judge said EA’s right to free expression under the First Amendment supersedes a former quarterback’s right to control the use of his likeness.


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Court Date Set For Epic Call Of Duty Lawsuit

Mean barbecues. Black-Eyed Peas. Office politics. Secret Flights. The epic Call of Duty lawsuit finally gets its day in court on May 7, attorneys for developers Vince Zampella and Jason West tell Kotaku.


August 21, 2011
News

Xbox Live User Sues Microsoft for $US500b (Or 625,000,000,000 MS Points)

Some cletus down in Arkansas opines that Microsoft has to pay him $US500 billion because it didn’t answer, in writing, a mailing designed to not get a written response do his demands for $US500 billion.


August 12, 2011
Xbox

Class Action Lawsuit Accuses Microsoft Of Double-Billing Xbox Live Subscriptions

Microsoft must defend its Xbox Live billing policies in a class action lawsuit filed this week in Indiana. Plaintiff Ryan Graves says he was double-charged for a subscription under “vague and onerous terms of use” for the console service membership.


August 5, 2011
News

Supreme Court Justice Opens Up About Her Vote On Video Game Law

Justice Elena Kagan [back row, far right] , whom Stephen Totilo said “did seem to get it” during oral arguments in Brown v EMA, called the case the most difficult of the Court’s most recent term, one in which she felt she was constantly in the wrong no matter her current state of mind.


August 4, 2011
News

EA’s Disaster Plans Don’t Include Billion-Dollar Lawsuits Or Giant Meteors

A cocktail-napkin calculation about what’s at stake in former NCAA players’ lawsuit against EA Sports arrived at a potential cash-and-prizes value of $US1 billion. But as apocalyptic as that total sounds, Electronic Arts doesn’t sound too worried.