What could turn out to be an ugly court battle has commenced between developer Valve and Activision Blizzard, with the former filing suit against the publisher on Tuesday.
Valve alleges that Activision Blizzard underpaid it almost half a million dollars in royalty dues owed from an earlier dispute between the developer and Sierra, whose assets and contractual duties were taken on by Activision when it merged with Sierra parent Vivendi.
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The US Trade Representative (USTR) has for the first time placed Canada on its “priority watch list” for failure to enforce effective intellectual property protection.
The decision, which was applauded by the Entertainment Software Association (ESA), places Canada on a list of countries deemed to have the worst record of preventing piracy and the counterfeiting of US goods, which also includes China, Russia, Algeria and Indonesia.
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Why not historical MMOs? That's the question Dana Massey asks as he debuts his brand new Thursday column. Each week, he'll examine some under-served or poorly executed part of MMOs and ask "Why Not?"
For his first column he gives his unique take on the Historical MMO genre, which he feels has been neglected, and runs down some of the best candidates for adaptation into an MMO.
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To complement today's review of Freaky Creatures, we present sixteen new images which have been added to our screenshot gallery.
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In a paerfect world, MMO development companies would answer all of the questions players have right up front. This being not the case, MMORPG.com Star Wars: The Old Republic Correspondent Christopher McCarty writes this tongue-in-cheek questionaire for the developers at Bioware, providing the questions and why he thinks they're important.
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In this top five editorial, Sanya Weathers takes a look at the top five quotes surrounding MMOs and some of the history surrounding them.
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Mythic continues its look at the NPC races of WAR with a feature on a race which many would like to see as a player race, the rat folk known as the Skaven.
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The latest dev blog out of CCP takes a look at the network behind EVE Online and how this series of tubes we call the interwebs works.
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MMORPG.com Lineage II Correspondent Chris Sides writes this article updating our readers on the state of Lineage II's New Player Experience.
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IGG has posted an overview of upcoming Commercial Battles between the major Merchant Alliances in Voyage Century.
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