After Sony came clean and stated that some of their users’ data had been compromised, some members of the PSN community ran for their pitchforks, some for their stock broker, and one member ran for the closest 1-800-lawyer guy begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 1-800-lawyer guy end_of_the_skype_highlighting he could find. An Alabaman named Kristopher Johns feels that Sony owes [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Lawsuit’
Activision Vs. EA Moving Forward
March 21st, 2011
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After a year of legal back-and-forth between EA and Activision, a California judge has allowed the lawsuit that Activision filed against the former studio heads of Infinity Ward, Vince Zampella and Jason West, to go to trial. EA tried to get the trial dismissed when Activision said EA was conspiring with West and Zampella while [...]
Bullshot! 090 – ur mom hates bullshot
January 21st, 2011
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Yeah…well…thats not what she said last night!
Infinity Ward Allegedly Delayed Map Pack To Benefit EA
January 20th, 2011
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It was a month ago that Activision amended their lawsuit against Infinity Ward to include EA who they claimed was engaged in shenanigans with Infinity Ward to damage their company. Parts of that amendment were redacted but now that the amendment has been approved all the secrets are out, and one of them is pretty [...]
Activision Blizzard’s George Rose Sounds Off On CA Violent Games Case
January 3rd, 2011
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Over the years, we have all heard threats to retailers to stop carrying violent video games. In 2005, California Governor Schwarzenegger tried to pass the current bill into effect. Thanks to our clever court systems, the bill was barred from affecting retailers while the lawsuit is being carried out. More recently, Activision Blizzard chief public [...]
EA Responds to Activision Suit
December 29th, 2010
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Activision is in pursuit of some cold hard cash from some of the creators of Call of Duty, as well as EA. In a recent blog post by the LA Times, Jeff Brown of EA had this to say: This is a PR play filled with pettiness and deliberate misdirection. Activision wants to hide the [...]
Brazil Moves to Remove GTA IV from Earth
October 18th, 2010
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In a classic case of he said/Brazilian composer said, the courts of Brazil have made motions to ban the sale of GTA IV for copyright infringement. “The Ballad of Gay Tony” features the song “Conga Kid” which is supposedly an unauthorized sample of “Bota o Dedinho pro Alto.” According to official statements, Rockstar is “restricted [...]
Elder Scrolls MMO Outed?
January 20th, 2010
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Lawsuits are nasty things, just ask Bethesda who has been fighting Interplay in court for quite a while now. Some recent court documents have apparently lifted the veil on the much rumored Elder Scrolls MMO. The documents suggest that a team of 100 has been working on the game for three years. This is apparently [...]
Hasbro Really Doesn’t Like Atari
December 17th, 2009
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For the second time this year, Hasbro who owns Wizards of the Coast who make Dungeons and Dragons are suing Atari over the MMO based on the pen and paper role playing game. This time they claim that Atari breached contract when they allowed Namco/Bandai to distribute their product in Europe. Hasbro says they never [...]
Bethesda Sues Interplay [Legal Fallout]
September 13th, 2009
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Earlier this year Interplay released a boxed set called Fallout Trilogy, that featured the original Fallout games(Fallout, Fallout 2, and Fallout Tactics). Turns out, they weren’t exactly supposed to do that. Gamasutra has the full story which includes all sorts of legal mumbo jumbo, but between this and not finishing the Fallout MMO in the [...]