The long-time legal battle between Zynga and Digital Chocolate, over the rights to use the name “Mafia Wars”, has been finally settled. The Recorder reported that two companies recently reached an out-of-court deal for an undisclosed amount. The terms are also currently unknown, with Zynga still using the title for its Facebook game.
Surprising nearly no one, the purposefully overt violence in Nether Realm’s Mortal Kombat reboot has gotten the game banned in the country of Australia. The country’s Classification Board has refused to rate the game, meaning it will not be available to legally release in the region. The board went further, requiring all advertisements to be […]
About two weeks ago we reported on Sony’s efforts to obtain a temporary restraining order against the alleged group of hackers “fail0verflow” that played a key role in George “Geohot” Hotz accessing the PS3’s critical systems. The court in California Sony approached earlier has now decided to both hear the case and grant the electronics […]
This past Monday, the bill H.R. 400 was introduced to the House of Representatives by Joe Baca of California (pictured above). If passed, the bill would mandate warning labels – similar to the ones found on cigarette boxes – on video games deemed likely to influence aggressive behavior. The bill was previously introduced in 2009, […]