The Ninth Circuit on Thursday upheld dismissal of a false advertising class action against the makers of the video game “Grand Theft Auto V,” agreeing buyers didn’t suffer serious injury from having to wait two weeks after purchase to play the online version.
Read moreIn five federal lawsuits, Alfonso Ribeiro accuses Epic Games and Take-Two Interactive Software of violating copyright of his Carlton Dance in video games; Anita Redd accuses the same two companies of violating copyright of her son’s (the Backpack Kid’s) Floss dance; and Terrence Ferguson accuses Take-Two Interactive of violating copyright of his Milly Rock dance.
Read moreConsumers brought a federal class action against Activision Publishing for announcing that it will shut down Guitar Hero TV and the game’s online servers on Dec. 1.
Read moreNew Mexico’s attorney general filed a federal lawsuit claiming the maker of a children’s gaming app sends kids’ location, demographic and other personal information to advertisers without parental consent, risking their safety and violating their privacy.
Read moreComedian Kevin Hart’s teary online confession to adultery destroyed a golden opportunity for a gaming developer Hart agreed to partner with before the clip went viral, a lawsuit filed in a federal Virginia court claims.
Read moreA superior court class action accuses Blizzard Entertainment of unfairly and deceptively tricking video gamers, “mainly … children, teenagers and young adults,” into buying “Packs” or “Loot Boxes” for real money while playing the games “Overwatch” and “Hearthstone.”
Read moreNintendo USA sued Jacob Mathias and Mathias Designs in Phoenix Federal Court, claiming he’s sold “a staggering number of unauthorized copies of Nintendo’s video games” on the internet, in a “brazen and mass-scale infringement of Nintendo’s intellectual property rights.”
Read moreTom DeSanto — producer of “Xmen” and “Transformers” — sued Gail Gygax — the widow of Gary Gygax, creator of “Dungeons & Dragons,” claiming they formed a partnership to exploit the brand, but she tried to negotiate a video game deal without him, in L.A. Superior Court.
Read moreCoinciding with the official release of the “Westworld” mobile game, Warner Bros. was hit with a federal complaint Thursday that says the game is a wholesale imitation, down to its bugs, of the mega-hit “Fallout Shelter.”
Read moreA federal judge approved a $3.75 million class action settlement between Sony and purchasers of the PlayStation 3 who believed it ran a Linux operating system along with its built-in gaming system, even though a 2010 update wiped Linux.
Read moreA Michigan man filed a federal class action claiming Game Informer magazine, without permission, shared demographic and lifestyle information about thousands of its subscribers with third parties.
Read moreBack in federal court on Thursday over retired NFL players’ right of publicity, the players’ case against video game maker Electronic Arts again comes down to whether the average gamer would be able to tell who they are.
Read moreA federal judge on Monday sentenced a Romanian man who launched a cyberattack on the servers of the popular online role-playing game “World of Warcraft” to a year in federal prison.
Read moreNew York’s top court dismissed privacy claims Thursday over a supposed caricature of Lindsay Lohan depicted in the video game “Grand Theft Auto V.”
Read moreVideo game behemoth Blizzard’s legal fight with Chinese competitor Lilith Games ended in a draw Thursday, with a federal judge finding it failed to show Lilith’s mobile game “Soul Hunters” rips off its hit franchises Starcraft and Diablo.
Read moreAttorneys for Lindsay Lohan and “Mob Wives” star Karen Gravano pushed New York’s highest court Wednesday to revive claims about the unsanctioned use of their likenesses in “Grand Theft Auto V.”
Read moreA federal judge granted Niantic’s motion to dismiss patent claims from Location Based Services, which claimed that Niantic’s Pokémon Go game infringed four of its patents.
Read moreAs video game makers hone the digital versions of basketball superstars for the franchise “NBA 2K,” a tattoo artist claims in a federal complaint that they are profiting off the unsanctioned reproductions of his original work.
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