News Tagged: law

It appears that Activision Blizzard reached a settlement of its $400 million claim against EA that was part of a legal dispute that was supposed to kick off a week from now with the Modern Warfare 2 devs. Activision lawyer Beth Wilkinson said: "Activision and Electronic Arts have decided to put this matter behind them...

Despite a somewhat grim outlook for the legal dispute between Blizzard and Valve, it seems that both companies managed to settle the battle over the DOTA license. As you know, Valve is keen on pushing their project DOTA 2 to the end, whereas Blizzard owns the rights to the universe and characters that were used for the popular Warcraft 3 mod...

Ah, DOTA - a once popular mod for Warcraft III, but now apparently the source of a potentially long-drawn-out legal dispute. Well, of course, we all knew this was bound to happen sooner or later. The folks over at Kotaku have reported that development studios Valve Software and Blizzard Entertainment commenced a legal battle over the name DOTA (Defense of the Ancients)...

The case against the Xbox modder has been dropped. Matthew Crippen was being sued for modifying consoles to enable them to do more than just play games that Microsoft releases, like play burned discs and homebrew games. The judge flipped his shit at the prosecution in a half-hour long tirade the other day, and today the case was dropped...

Crytek CEO Cevat Yerli reveals that a proposal by Germany interior ministers seeking to ban the domestic production of violent games could make the developer leave the country. If the proposal goes through consumers wouldn't be able to purchase certain titles, which means devs...