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European indie group Masthead has survived another hostile legal assault by US publishing giant Bethesda. Complaints by Bethesda forced a ruling to be made in a Californian court – some six thousand miles away from Masthead’s Bulgaria base of operations. Masthead did not fly a representative over, but Californian Judge …

Viacom is taking ex-shareholders of Rock Band developer Harmonix to court, following a lawsuit filed against the firm itself last year. The former parent company of Harmonix and owner of MTV claims that previous Harmonix shareholders owe it over $131m, reports Gamasutra. Viacom claims this is a refund” of the …

The wake of this year’s PSN meltdown still continues to ripple. Sony has updated the terms of service document that users must agree to when registering with PSN. It has added a clause – called ‘Binding Individual Arbitration’ – which looks to prevent future incidents of the legal action the …

The date has been set for the trial that will settle Infinity Ward co-founders Jason West and Vince Zampella lawsuit against Activision. The case will officially got to court in Los Angeles in May 7th, where the pair will sue its former employer on fraud allegations, according to Gamasutra. The …

It has emerged that Sony is facing a total of 55 lawsuits in the US making claims relating to the much-publicised PSN outage earlier this year. Sony has made numerous claims to insurer Zurich American to cover its legal fees according to a commercial general liability policy taken out in …

Square Enix has filed a lawsuit against the people believed to be behind a recent Deus Ex leak. A preview build of the upcoming Deus Ex: Human Revolution was accessed and uploaded onto torrent sites in late May. The code contained early sections of the game. The publisher is now …

The case between Activision and ex-Infinity Ward members Vince Zampella and Jason West is expected to go to trial. The latest development in the lawsuit – which was first filed in March 2010 – came when a Los Angeles Superior Court judge ruled that there are facts to support the …

Global tech giant Microsoft is to pay a record 178m ($290m) issued by the US Supreme Court for infringing a patent. Canadian company i4i originally sued Microsoft in 2007 after discovering PC word processor program Word had infringed a patent relating to text manipulation software. Despite several appeals, the judges …

Game would've earned $100m, studio says, before 'erratic' superstar pulled out of deal

The hacker at the centre of an increasingly bizarre legal battle with PS3 has reportedly fled to South America. VGHQ has unearthed Sony documents claiming that George Hotz has been removing key components from his electrical equipment so as to hide crucial information the company is trying to unearth as …