Enlarge / Artist’s conception of Bungie taking aim at anti-choice activists. Destiny developer Bungie posted a statement late Tuesday expressing strong support for abortion rights in the United States. The move makes Bungie the first video game company to publicly comment on a leaked draft opinion that shows the Supreme Court poised to overturn the […]
Enlarge / If you take aim at Destiny 2 cheaters in court, you’d better not miss. When game makers go to court to stop cheat makers, they often rely on claims that the cheat tools represent a form of copyright infringement on the original game. Last week, though, a federal judge dismissed such copyright claims […]
Enlarge (credit: Bungie ) Bungie slammed YouTube’s Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) process in a lawsuit against 10 John Doe defendants accused of sending fraudulent takedown notices against Destiny 2 videos. “Doe Defendants were able to do this because of a hole in YouTube’s DMCA-process security, which allows any person to claim to be representing […]
Three big acquisitions this month show an industry in flux and readying with regard to change. Read More
Enlarge / Well, we didn’t necessarily see this one coming. (credit: Aurich Lawson | Sony | Bungie) After Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard King , talk turned to how Sony and its PlayStation division would deal with the fallout of the purchase. Might Sony miss out on a megaton first-person shooter franchise if Xbox becomes […]