The digital dust has settled over Zynga’s blatant copying of NimbleBit’s Tiny Tower back in January. Besides a clever infographic from NimbleBit and a load of bad press, there were no real ramifications for Zynga, no fines, no lawsuit, nothing. It’s not surprising; after all it …
Assassin’s Creed is popular, even if people hate Ubisoft for their business methods and DRM. Sci-fi author John Beiswenger accused Ubisoft of ripping off the story for Assassin’s Creed from his novel Link. The book released in 2002 has a similar element to it as a …
A class action lawsuit against AT&T has accused the company of allegedly aiding thieves and fleecing customers of their money through reactivating stolen phones, lying about inability to block phones, and are using these facts to make customers buy new phones.
Remember my previous article on how Zynga rips off people’s games shamelessly? Well another company that does the same thing picked a fight with the wrong people. Spry Fox, upon hearing that Yeti Town was basically a clone of Triple Town, took action against 6waves.
EA announced a while ago those who picked up Battlefield 3 for the PS3 would get a free copy of Battlefield 1943. They were nothing but lying bastards. Not only was it pulled at the last minute, even after some had already picked the game up …
A recent spat between Markus Persson of Mojang, also known as Notch, and the RPG developer Bethesda over the use of the trademark Scrolls has come to a current end. Notch’s twitter has announced that they won the interim injunction, meaning the Scrolls project can go …
In an act of complete and utter stupidity, Bethesda has begun their “really silly” lawsuit against Mojang claiming that Scrolls’ name infringes on their popular sandbox single-player RPG series The Elder Scrolls. In semi-related news, Thomas Biskup has sued an upcoming Roguelike for its game mechanics …
In a bold move to prevent everyone jumping down their throats because of downtime, hacks, or whatever reason, Sony sent an email out to their users that explains a change to the terms of service that will be implemented today, and those who do not agree …
If you don’t know, Notch, creator of Minecraft, is working on a project called Scrolls. However, even if Scrolls is a generic word, there are very few games that use it, with 7 using Scroll and even less using Scrolls (Excluding the Elder Scrolls series) according …
The Finnish company, Rovio, who developed the game Angry Birds is being sued by a US Patents Firm for violation of patent rules. Lodsys has claimed that the Finnish company violated its patents, what is this patent? The method of which Angry Birds uses to purchase …
The courts in Netherlands have declared their decision in a patent dispute filed by LG against Sony, ruling in the favor of the latter and releasing the confiscated shipments of their PS3s from the customs. The Korean electronics giants LG had last month won an order …
Google Inc. was sued on Monday by the internet communication giant VoIP in New York Supreme Court, being accused of stealing trade secrets related to online voice technology. A contract made in September 2005 is the basis of the litigation, according to which VoiceOne Communications Corp, …