We all know this giant Mojang vs. Bethesda thing has been happening for a while. Needless to say, none of us know all of the particulars, and even with the available documents we have no idea what all is actually happening. It’s hard to decipher lawyer speak, and it’s even more difficult when...

When it comes to naming your game, you want to capture the essence of the experience in one or two words. It’s a pretty big deal, especially when you have to make sure that no one else has the title you want for it. People get all kinds of huffy if you name your game in a very similar fashion, and...

Every service from Netflix to Xbox live has a Terms of service of sorts and they are all pretty basic for the most part, they exist to add a kind of legal barrier between the company and the consumer. Well Sony has added at least one not so standard clause to its End User License Agreement. A clause that...

Don’t you hate when you misplace something? You know, the TV remote, your cell phone, 3 million Dirt 3 keys. What’s that, you haven’t misplaced 3 million Dirt 3 keys? My bad, that was Codemasters. I wouldn’t say that they misplaced them, so much as they left them out for anyone to...

I think that most gamers (or consumers of any digital media, for that matter) are familiar with the letter DMCA. They, of course, stand for the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which is an attempt by the government to thwart piracy. Now, in theory, it isn’t such a horrible thing. It’s...

Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who can’t notice something until 3 years later? Axl Rose! Yes readers that is correct, a whole 3 years after the release of Guitar Hero III, Axl Rose is suing Activision for $20 million. Apparently there is an issue with having Slash present with both a GnR song (Welcome to...

Well it’s official folks, after many years of harassing gamers, gaming studios and just being a general asshat, Jack Thompson has finally gotten himself disbarred. No longer can this man practice law in the state of Florida. Granted, that doesn’t mean that we’re completely rid of him, but...

Look carefully at the two images above. Now if you ignored the slightly different titles, one might be inclined to believe that these were simply two versions of the same cover. However, that couldn’t be farther from the truth. The cover on the left was released by THQ back in June, while the other is...