Lawsuit
Digital Homicide Withdraws Lawsuit, Co-Founder Says Studio Is Destroyed
Digital Homicide, the infamous studio that has recently been in the news over a lawsuit where the studio sued over 100 Steam users for USD 18 million, has now withdrawn their claim, saying they can no longer pursue the lawsuit. “Upon filing this case, per advice of the local sheriff who could not help me or my business with a massive ARS-13-2921 criminal harassment problem on an Internet Store front and via email, The Plaintiffs business was destroyed completely financially disabling The Plaintiff, destroying usability of all current work effort, and untold other damages,” the filing says. In an interview with TechRaptor, studio co-founder and developer James Romine Jr. said that he still believes the case is solid, but the studio has been financially crippled due to the remova...
Court Dismisses Lindsay Lohan’s Grand Theft Auto V Lawsuit
Baack in 2014, Lindsay Lohan had filed a lawsuit against Take-Two, the publisher behind GTA V, claming that they had used her likeness in the game, and promotional material for the game. Acterss, Lindsay Lohan said that an in-game character named Lacey Jonas carried a strong resemblance to her. Later, she also targeted the bikini-clad character holding up the peace sign on the game’s promotional material. “The Plaintiff has been using the peace sign hand gesture for years before and after its use in the video game,” read Lohan’s complaint at the time. And that is how the peace sign had come into existence. However, at the end of the day, common sense prevailed, and a panel of five judges rules that the claims were without merit, since Lohan’s name and actual image was not used....
Class- action for Grand Theft Auto Online dismissed
According to Game Politics, a class-action lawsuit filed against Rockstar Games and Take-Two has been dismissed by a US District Court in California. The plaintiffs argued that Rockstar and Take-Two failed to deliver the full, promised Grand Theft Auto 5 experience – in specific reference to the online portion of the game, GTA Online. The suit claimed the state of Grand Theft Auto 5 at launch last September was “unlawful,” “unfair” and “fraudulent” on the part of Take-Two and Rockstar. Judge Virginia A. Phillips didn’t approve of this as there is no language on the Grand Theft Auto 5 packaging guaranteeing the online portion of the game “immediately.” Source: David Hinkle
EA to face lawsuit over Battlefield 4
So Rockstar aren’t the only ones under the lawsuit radar. There is a law firm that is looking at the possibilities of suing EA over Battlefiled 4, claiming that EA misled investors over the condition of the game. Just days before the game was released, several EA executives offloaded almost $5 million in EA stock. “Another law firm, Bower Piven, has filed the same class-action lawsuit, and they’re seeking for an EA investor that has lost at least $200,000 on EA stock purchased over the past few months. EA’s shares have been very volatile lately, due to the problems of Battlefield 4.” There is no doubt that all the problems that Battlefield 4 launched with have resulted in lost sales. The game was practically unplayable when it launched, and only now, after almost two mont...