Sony’s PS3 in legal trouble… again?
Tuesday, July 31st, 2007 Posted in New Complaint, Patent Infringement, Sony | No Comments »Parallel Processing, a Newport Beach, Calif. branch of New Bedford, Mass.'s International Parallel Machines, has flipped Sony over and attacked its weak point for massive damage. According to a complaint filed by Parallel Processing in the United States District ...
The Landmark Cases: In the beginning, there was pong
Monday, July 30th, 2007 Posted in Retro, The Landmark Cases | 2 Comments »Pong. It's the game that many consider to be the beginning of video games as we know them and, for the most part, this is true. While there were games before Pong, there is no question that Pong ...
Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson up in arms over Traffix advergame
Monday, July 23rd, 2007 Posted in Advergames, New Complaint, Rappers | 2 Comments »Rapper 50 Cent has propelled himself to super-stardom over the years proudly flaunting that he has "been hit with a few shells, but ... don't walk wit' a limp." It now appears that Mr. Jackson, always making sure to ...
Silicon Knights sues Epic, claims ‘Unreal’ industry sabotage [Update]
Friday, July 20th, 2007 Posted in Epic Games, Fraud, New Complaint, Silicon Knights | No Comments »Silicon Knights, creators of Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem, recently filed suit against Epic Games claiming that Epic misrepresented the abilities of their money-printing Unreal Engine 3 when selling the license agreement for the engine to Silicon Knights. Silicon ...
New York Postal?
Wednesday, July 18th, 2007 Posted in Intellectual Property, Uwe Boll | 1 Comment »Uwe Boll, infamous video game movie director and German tax shelter, better get his boxing gloves back out because the New York Post has his number--which, according to Rotten Tomatoes, is around 4% or less. Boll recently received a letter from ...
More Microsoft woes, Class action brought for disc scratches
Wednesday, July 11th, 2007 Posted in Class action, Microsoft, New Complaint | 2 Comments »Hot off Microsoft's announcement that a 3-year warranty program would be put in place to alleviate consumer complaints about "general defects" in the Xbox 360 console, a Florida man, Jorge Brouwer, has filed a class action lawsuit against Microsoft claiming that the Xbox 360 ...
Shareholders tell Midway to ‘Get over here,’ attempt fatality [Update]
Saturday, July 7th, 2007 Posted in Class action, Fraud, Midway, New Complaint | No Comments »A federal securities fraud suit filed in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois alleges that Midway Games Inc., creators of Ms. Pac-Man and Mortal Kombat, misled their investors about the company's financial condition ...
