Nexon has taken its ongoing copyright dispute with Dark and Darker developer Ironmace to court as it officially files a copyright infringement lawsuit against its fellow South Korean studio. The lawsuit makes the same accusations as its earlier copyright complaint which claims that Ironmace stole codes and assets from a scrapped Nexon game codenamed Project P3 for use in their [...]
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Last year, a group of gamers filed a lawsuit against Microsoft in hopes of blocking its impending $69 billion merger with Activision Blizzard over antitrust and monopoly concerns. US District Judge Jacqueline Corley, the judge presiding over the case, dismissed the lawsuit last month due to insufficient details on exactly how the merger will be detrimental to competition in the [...]
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Monster Energy is currently in a trademark trolling crusade with the energy drink company filing over a hundred complaints in Japan last week against brands and companies that used the word “monster” in any way, shape, and form. They even went after Capcom for Monster Hunter and The Pokémon Company for the use of Pocket Monster. The complaints against both [...]
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Video game developers are always looking to push the boundaries of technology to come up with innovative ways to enhance player experiences. One particular MUD developer used OpenAI’s ChatGPT in a creative and interesting way to bring life to its NPCs. As an April Fools’ Day prank, Aetolia: The Midnight Age developer Iron Realms Entertainment announced that it was integrating [...]
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Microsoft has apparently succeeded in convincing the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) to support their hotly-debated merger with Activision Blizzard. The CMA was initially concerned about the possibility that the merger might stifle competition in the video game market and said as much when it released the results of its investigation. The regulatory body has now backtracked on its [...]
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The ensuing legal battle between Nexon and Ironmace has spiraled into a convoluted mess after the latter fired shots at the South Korean video game giant on Discord. For context, Ironmace is a newly founded studio made up of former Nexon developers who are currently working on a PvPvE dungeon crawler called Dark and Darker. Last month, Nexon filed a [...]
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Last month, Greg “Ghostcrawler” Street announced that he was leaving Riot Games after nine years with the studio to spend time with his family while also teasing “something new.” That something is apparently two things: a new remote development studio and a new MMO. “These past few years made me think a lot about my future and what I want [...]
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Over the past few months, it seems like everybody is suing somebody else in the video game world for copyright infringement or some trademark violation or other. The latest one comes from NCSoft who filed a copyright infringement and unfair competition complaint against Kakao Games and XL Games for allegedly plagiarizing Lineage 2M features for use in its upcoming ArcheAge [...]
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Amazon has undergone another round of layoffs in addition to the 9,000 workers that it laid off last month. This time around that company dismissed 100 employees from its San Diego studio and Prime Gaming arm. According to CNBC, this brings the total number of employees that the company has laid off up to roughly 27,000 in just the past [...]
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Indie development studio Glowstick Entertainment, the creator of multiplayer horror party game Dark Deception: Monsters & Mortals, is being threatened with legal action by Coca-Cola’s Monster Energy over alleged copyright infringement. The energy drink company’s lawyers, Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP, has filed a complaint against the studio’s use of the words monster, beast, and unleash; Monster Energy-like fonts, [...]
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