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Why Activision Filed a Warzone Trademark Lawsuit Against an Indie Developer

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Time Stamp: April 14, 2021 2:47 PM - Modified On: April 14, 2021 - Published By:
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by Jason Parker in Call of Duty | Apr, 14th 2021 What’s all this business about the Activision Warzone lawsuit, anyway? It has to do with the trademark “Warzone,” since there was an indie game with that name several years before Call of Duty Warzone even cropped up. The owner/creator of Warzone.com won’t cease attempting to halt Activision’s use of the “Warzone” trademark. Though Warzone.com has been around since 2017, the creator didn’t set up a trademark until Oct. 30. Activision? They got to it back in June 2020. Hasbro’s Risk inspires

Riot Games Investigation Finds No Wrongdoing By CEO

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Time Stamp: March 16, 2021 3:29 PM - Modified On: March 16, 2021 - Published By:
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Top GamesRiot Games CEO Nicolo Laurent at the 2018 League of Legends World Championship. | ESPAT Media/Getty ImagesRiot Games says a third-party investigation into the alleged misconduct of its CEO Nicolas Laurent found no evidence of wrongdoing and recommended Laurents receive no punishment from the company. Riot shared the news with staff in an email to staff Tuesday, the Washington Post reports.Allegations of misconduct first came to light Jan. 7, when Sharon O'Donnell, a former executive assistant at Riot Games, filed a lawsuit claiming Laurent had created a hostile work

‘Pokémon Go’ trial gives players a peek at what might be inside their eggs

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Pokémon Go is giving some players the chance to peep the contents of their eggs in a move that could be aimed at preempting legal restrictions on loot boxes in Europe. Germany and Belgium have respectively passed laws limiting games that carry the gambling-like mechanisms to players aged 18 and over or banning loot boxes outright.In tweets, Pokémon Go developer Niantic said that select users can tap on an egg to view a table of possible Pokémon, and their rarity level, in their inventory —though, it won't show if the

Former Riot employee sues CEO for sexual harassment

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Time Stamp: February 9, 2021 6:45 PM - Modified On: February 9, 2021 - Published By:
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GamesBeat Summit 2021 #GBSummit returns with two days of content and networking designed for industry executives. April 28-29, 2021 Register Now In a case filed in January, former Riot Games employee Sharon O’Donnell alleges that chief executive officer Nicolo Laurent sent her suggestive propositions in text messages. O’Donnell detailed the complaints in her sexual harassment case against the executive in the Superior Court for the State of California in Los Angeles. O’Donnell claims that Laurent told her to “cum” to his house while his wife was traveling. He also mentioned

ESIC’s spoken about the coaches. Will Valve be next?

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Time Stamp: January 28, 2021 5:37 PM - Modified On: January 28, 2021 - Published By:
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On Monday, the preliminary findings of ESIC’s landmark spectator bug investigation were made public, implicating 37 coaches for a slate of offenses across the last five years. With more to come (supposedly about issues involving stream-sniping, not to mention the match-fixing investigation), it feels like a purge is overdue. The real question is whether Valve will step in, and if so, will they keep with the brutal precedents they set almost half a decade ago.And then there were thirty-sevenThe slow-motion fallout of the spectator bug controversy continued on Monday with

Epic Games founder Tim Sweeney likens fight against Apple to fight for civil rights

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Time Stamp: November 18, 2020 1:23 PM - Modified On: November 18, 2020 - Published By:
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Earlier today, Apple announced it will reduce the App Store commissions for smaller businesses so that developers earning less than $1 million per year pay a 15% commission on in-app purchases, rather than the standard 30% commission. Tim Sweeney, founder of Epic Games, says the move — an apparent reaction to current investigations into Apple by Congress, the European Union, the Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission on antitrust grounds — doesn’t go nearly far enough. This morning, he told the Wall Street Journal that Apple is merely “hoping