Members of LulzSec, the organisation that claimed to have hacked Sony, Nintendo, Electronic Arts, the CIA and FBI, have been arrested and sentenced in the United Kingdom. The four members [...]

Surprise, surprise… If you ask the ESA about game piracy, it will claim that there are some ten million illegal downloads of over two hundred games per month. However a [...]

Videogames has done it again. The past-time has led children to commit brutal crimes, all of which just shows how the medium is actually bad–for certain people. In two different [...]

Earlier this week we reported on a class action lawsuit filed against Sega and Gearbox for Aliens: Colonial Marines, claiming false advertising and effectively misleading the public. You can get [...]

If this news comes as a surprise to you, then you are either a woeful optimist, perilously senile or you’ve been living under a rock. A very large rock with [...]

Activision is no newcomer to legal issues. In fact, they’re always in court. Whether it’s over music debates, with Guitar Hero, or something silly with public relations–they’re there. The latest [...]

Picture unrelated but it does show a kid brandishing a gun We’ve heard the media blame video games for violence before, we’ve heard it so many times it’s practically a trope [...]

Nintendo’s 3DS has its party piece in the dual-screen and glassesless 3D capabilities. Other than that I’ve never seen much allure in the handheld console but the console has been [...]

In 2011, British tabloids accused Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 of releasing a trailer which featured links to the 7/7 London bombings in 2005. Apparently, the Daily Mail decided [...]

Here’s an interesting story which was shared with me earlier today by a certain Executive Editor, who felt that I had just the right amount of political incorrectness to talk [...]

In September of 2012, it was reported that Valve might be in a bit of trouble with regards to their End-User License Agreement (EULA). The complaint is from a German [...]

THQ’s assets are undergoing auction, as the company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the United States. While this sad news is already known, it seems as if a spanner [...]

And another one bites the dust Perhaps that was a bit insensitive but there’s more to it than another company simply going belly up amidst an ongoing economic downturn. Atari [...]

Sony recently settled a lawsuit showing that it is actually possible to own another person. In a way. Last year, a dispute between Sony Computer Entertainment and Jerry Lambert (more [...]

There’s an ongoing war between publishers and gamers, and it’s called secondhand sales. Like every other war, there’s going to be a winner and a loser. Unfortunately, it seems as [...]

AMD has come out and accused a few former employees of stealing secrets and handing them over to rival company, Nvidia. The allegations include an accusation against Bob Feldstein, the [...]

The Entertainment Software Association along with several other representatives of the video game industry – including EA, Activision and Epic Games – recently met with US vice president Joe Biden to discuss [...]

THQ is in a sad state at present, to put things rather lightly. The publisher of franchises such as Saints Row, Darksiders and WWE is in serious financial trouble and [...]

It’s very simple really, a shipment of Assassin’s Creed III PC destined for Belgium, Netherlands and Luxemborg was hijacked and stolen by stinking filthy Templars who don’t want you to [...]

In April of 2011, Beyonce Knowles tried to extort money out of Gate Five, a developer who created the star’s very own game, called Starpower: Beyonce. The story has it [...]

Medal of Honor: Warfighter, in its attempts to realistically portray war, enlisted the consulting services of a number of Navy SEALs and seven of those have now received letters of [...]

Cypress Hill’s Michael “Shagg” Washington attempted to sue Take-Two for allegedly using him as the star of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. Unfortunately, he lost. Shagg, we’ll call him by [...]

Ubisoft has sued BEP Music for $1 million over breach of contract with regards to an unreleased iPad and iPhone game. This should be interesting. Or not. Before we go on, [...]

You probably need a bit of a catch up on this one, so let me bring you up to speed. Back in 2008, a group of consumers sued EA due [...]

Sony has filed a lawsuit against Jerry Lambert, the famous actor who plays the part of the fictional PlayStation executive Kevin Butler in various popular ad campaigns and promotional videos. [...]

You guys remember 38 Studios, right? They brought us the excellent Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning but got themselves into debt in the process. Having declared bankruptcy in June, the development [...]

This isn’t the first time we’ve heard of a distributor of some kind finding itself in hot water over user agreements. Sony is infamous for being threatened with legal action [...]

We’re always hearing about controversy in the gaming industry whether it’s copyright infringement or lawsuits or slave-driving studios; the list goes on and most of the time these things are [...]

For those of you who only come out from under your rock every few years and need a catch-up, here are the details in brief: Electronic Arts has announced that [...]

It feels like 2011 all over again. Seriously, hacking the PlayStation Network is not only old, but it has been done before. Lay off, find something new. Why not try [...]