All lawsuit news

Second Life trademark lawsuit: Guardian journalist is the defendant

November 25, 2008, 2:00 pm by Simon Munk 3 comments

Filed under Gaming Tags: Guardian gamesblog, lawsuit, Linden Labs, Richard Minsky, second life, SL Art, SLart, The Guardian newspaper, user-generated content, Victor Keegan, Victor Vezina

In a case that’s getting weirder and weirder, it has emerged that “Victor Vezina” the Second Life avatar who is being sued over alleged trademark infringements is none other than Victor Keegan from The Guardian newspaper’s technology team.

Microsoft faces red ring of death Xbox 360 lawsuit

October 16, 2008, 2:00 pm by Simon Munk 4 comments

Filed under Gaming Tags: lawsuit, Microsoft Xbox 360, News, Nintendo Wiii, red ring of death, rrod, Sony PS3, videogames console, X360

According to documents and news reports filed in a class action against Microsoft in a Sacramento County Superior Court, the company knew in November 2005 that over 50 per cent from the first sales batch were defective.

Scrabulous game banished from Facebook

July 31, 2008, 10:30 am by Stephen Ebert Leave your comment

Filed under Gaming Tags: Facebook, Games, lawsuit, Scrabulous, Social-Networking

Facebook games are dropping like flies, after one was canned for including knife references, Hasbro’s much publicized lawsuit against the Scrabulous Facebook game has just ended in its makers dropping the wordy application.