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Ironmace says a court has dismissed its former publisher Nexon's request for an injunction following the publisher's claim that Dark and Darker has been written with stolen code from a game the team had been developing for Nexon.

Take-Two has won its lawsuit against tattoo artist Jimmy Hayden, who claimed that the reproduction of his work on basketball player LeBron James in the NBA 2K series constituted copyright infringement.

Tropic Haze – the company behind the emulation software Yuzu – has responded to Nintendo's summons that accuses the company of «illegally circumventing Nintendo's software encryption».

Dark and Darker developer Ironmace has said that a preliminary injunction filed by Nexon for trade secret and copyright infringement was dismissed by the court.

A former Activision Blizzard executive has filed a discrimination claim with the company, alleging it of discriminating against «old white guys».

Activision Blizzard has agreed to pay more than $54 million (and an additional $47 million for affected employees) to settle a lawsuit filed by California’s Civil Rights Department in 2021. The lawsuit was filed over accusations of sexual and gender harassment, along with discrimination, including pay disparities.

Valve boss Gabe Newell has been ordered to appear in court as part of an antitrust lawsuit filed by Wolfire Games.

A London tribunal has ruled that a lawsuit filed last year accusing Sony of breaching competition law over store prices will continue, Reuters reports.

A cohort of parents filed a new civil lawsuit against Roblox, claiming that monetary losses were suffered due to its lack of child safety precautions.

Two years after its release into early access,Myth of Empires is heading back into wider release. This comes as developer Angela Game has settled with Snail Games and Studio Wildcard over alleged copyright violations that pushed the game off Steam and into a smaller independent release.

Amazon is heading into one of its biggest sales events of the year — Prime Day — with a lawsuit hanging over its head that accuses it of preventing sellers from hawking their merchandise at lower prices on other sites.

The lawsuit alleges Aspyr Media and Saber Interactive misled customers by selling KOTOR 2 with the promise of its now canceled Restored Content DLC.

The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) isn't giving up its legal fight against Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard. As you're likely to remember, the US regulator tried to obtain a preliminary injunction to prevent Microsoft's deal from being completed but failed when Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley of the Northern District of California ruled in favor of Microsoft on July 11th.

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Developer Aspyr and publisher Saber Interactive have been caught up in a class action lawsuit over the canceled Star WarsKnights of the Old Republic 2: Sith Lords DLC for Nintendo Switch.

Aspyr and Saber Interactive are facing a class action lawsuit over their decision to cancel Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 2 DLC originally advertised for last year’s Switch port.

Developer Aspyr Media and publisher Saber Interactive are facing a class action lawsuit regarding the cancelled DLC for the Nintendo Switch port of Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 2.

Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 2 - The Sith Lords was ported to Switch last year, breathing new life into the often-overlooked sequel. Better yet, the announcement trailer stated that the Restored Content Mod would be available as DLC, which as many fans will tell you, is the best way to experience the classic RPG. However, amid trouble behind the scenes, the DLC was later cancelled, leaving KOTOR 2 just as unfinished as it is on other platforms.

Google has agreed to pay the state of California $93 million to settle a lawsuit from the state alleging that the company has violated California’s consumer protection laws.

The delays facing Amazon’s satellite internet system, Project Kuiper, has prompted a group of shareholders to sue the company for allegedly snubbing SpaceX as a launch provider.

Yesterday, $5 million didn't seem so far away. Now, two Ana de Armas fans who sued Universal for misleading advertising for the movie Yesterday have had their lawsuit thrown out of court by a judge – for good.

Chess grandmaster Hans Niemann has dropped his $100 million lawsuit against Chess.com and fellow grandmasters Magnus Carlsen and Hikaru Nakamura, and will be allowed to return to the chess website, the company announced Tuesday.

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A federal judge has dismissed the Republican National Committee’s lawsuit against Google, which claimed the tech giant illegally sent some of its messages to spam on Gmail.

A mobile version of Dark and Darker has been announced, and it's being published by the company behind PUBG Mobile.

A class action lawsuit was filed against Roblox this week alleging that the gaming platform has facilitated illegal child gambling.

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Activision Blizzard has dropped its legal complaint against a popular content creator that had threatened to sue the publisher after it used an audio clip without permission.

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You might've heard that Larian Studios is being sued over Baldur's Gate 3 being too good. It is 2023's highest-rated game, after all. But the lawsuit is a complete fabrication, stemming from a satirical TikTok video.

Reports of a Baldur's Gate 3 lawsuit are going viral after a Tiktok "satire" claimed the game was being sued for being too good. 

Dark and Darker, despite continued legal issues via a copyright infringementlawsuit filed by Nexon, has entered early access. Developer Ironmace Games has created its own launcher and is selling the game independently.

Last week it was revealed that Jimmy 'MrBeast' Donaldson, the most popular YouTuber in the world, had earlier this year launched a lawsuit against his own «revolting» brand of burgers: MrBeast Burgers, operated by the company Virtual Dining Concepts (VDC). VDC fired back in a statement saying the suit was «meritless», that MrBeast is a bully who's «elevated greed over his word and the truth», and has now filed counter-suit, claiming both that the burgers are «excellent» and seeking a nine-figure sum in damages, ie, over $100 million dollars. 

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is finalizing its long-awaited antitrust lawsuit against Amazon in a move that could ultimately break up parts of the company, Politico reported on Tuesday.

After it was denied an injuction by a US federal court, the FTC has also put a hold on its internal challenge against Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard.

Google lost a bid to dismiss a lawsuit by an engineer who claims he was fired for challenging a paper the company published that touted the ability of artificial intelligence to speed the design of computer chips.

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