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This is not a termination of accounts related to Unreal Engine devs.

Today, Apple followed through with part of their threat that they would terminate Epic Games' developer account. This is not the same as their threat to terminate the accounts of all Unreal Engine developers. That specific case was shot down in court earlier this week. However, that ruling still left the door open for Apple to terminate the account specifically related to Epic Games, the one used by Fortnite.
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Here's a hint: Nacon, their licensee, has something to do with it.

The Sinking City, the Lovecraftian inspired horror/investigation game that we talked rather favorably about in our review, has been missing from multiple storefronts. You are not able to find the game right now for sale through Steam, Epic Games Store, the Xbox One, nor even the PlayStation 4. A statement published today by the game's developer, Frogwares, details just what happened.

In short: The studio...

The first battle in a long war has reached its conclusion.

This past week, Epic had filed for a temporary restraining order in order to prevent Apple from terminating all Epic developer accounts. This was a reactionary response from Apple after Epic Games filed a lawsuit against Apple for kicking Fortnite from the App Store when Epic decided they did not want to play by the rules.

This ban against Unreal Engine would have effectively barred all Unreal Engine developers...

Gearbox claims 3D Realms is in breach of contract.

Gearbox is headed back to the courtroom, though they may have never actually left. This time, they're the ones doing the suing. The development studio is suing Apogee Software, the parent company of 3D Realms, over a breach of contract in its acquisition of the Duke Nukem franchise and IP.

DigitalTrends spotted the complaint, which was filed just this past week. The complain says that 3D Realms reportedly violated a portion...

All parties resolve "misunderstandings" as evidence exonerates Randy Pitchford.

If you need to get up to speed on what is going on here, I suggest you check out the previous update from August where we go over the events of this long legal battle between Gearbox, Randy Pitchford, and Gearbox's former lawyer, Wade Callender. In short, Pitchford and Callender were suing each other over various grievances. Everyone involved came off as incredibly scummy in their own way. Like...

A class-action lawsuit has kicked off against Riot Games, publisher of League of Legends, that accuses the studio of gender-based discrimination. The lawsuit, began by one former employee and one current employee say that the studio has a "men-first" environment.

According to Kotaku, the lawsuit claims that the two employees, both female, have been "denied equal pay and found their careers stifled because they are women." The suit continues on to say that the employees have "seen t heir working conditions negatively impacted because of the ongoing sexual harassment, misconduct, and bias which predominate the sexually-hostile working environment of Riot Games." The lawsuit also claims that Riot has violated California's Equal Pay Act and law against gender-based discrimination at the workplace....

A lawsuit has been filed from Bethesda against Warner Bros. that alleges the recently released Westworld mobile game infringes upon the copyright for Fallout Shelter. See, Westworld was developed by Behaviour Interactive, who are also being sued by Bethesda. Behavior Interactive was a co-developer on Fallout Shelter. Bethesda's lawsuit claims that the Westworld game, released this week for Android and iOS, "has the same or highly similar game design, art style, animations, features, a...

A lawsuit has been filed from Bethesda against Warner Bros. that alleges the recently released Westworld mobile game infringes upon the copyright...

ZeniMax has added Samsung to their growing list of entities that they're suing or being sued by over this whole virtual reality technologies thing. It started off with Oculus VR and Palmer Luckey, then John Carmack got (more) involved, then a jury awarded $500M to ZeniMax, and while Oculus VR is looking to appeal the case ZeniMax is out there suing Samsung. ZeniMax is suing Samsung over their Samsung Gear VR headset because it uses technologies by Oculus VR. By using those technologie...

ZeniMax has added Samsung to their growing list of entities that they're suing or being sued by over this whole virtual reality technologies thing....

Prey for the Gods was a game that was in development by a three-man Indie studio called No Matter Studios. Prey is an upcoming game from Bethesda. Zenimax, Bethesda's parent company, didn't like that another game had "Prey" in the title and decided to seek legal action against the Indie studio.

To cut to the chase, the Indie developers may not have "Prey for the Gods" now, but they do have Praey for the Gods or Præy for the Gods for you fancy types. The devs mention this change...

Prey for the Gods was a game that was in development by a three-man Indie studio called No Matter Studios. Prey is an upcoming game from Bethesda....

The legal battle between Zenimax and Oculus is just the gift that keeps on giving. Now, John Carmack is suing Zenimax for $22 million.

Carmack says that the amount, which is actually in excess of $22.5 million, is the remainder of what he was owed from Zenimax's acquisition of id Software back in 2009. He says that Zenimax didn't pay it because of "sour grapes" over the ongoing legal disputes between them and Oculus.
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The legal battle between Zenimax and Oculus is just the gift that keeps on giving. Now, John Carmack is suing Zenimax for $22 million.
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