On March 1, a law came into force that changes the rules for processing personal data in Russia. It also applies to video games. How exactly — we figured out with the lawyers from VERSUS.legal and Semenov&Pevzner.What changes the law?

The Japanese corporation Nintendo is suing the developer of the mobile White Cat Project. The main claim of the company is that Colopl violated five patents at once in the game. For this, Nintendo wants to recover $47 million.

Valve is on the verge of a new trial. This time, Steam owners are accused of “abusing the market power of the platform.” They say that the company prohibits developers from lowering the prices of their games in other digital stores.

Wargaming still fails to advance in litigation with indie studio Press Fire Games (formerly known as BlitzTeam). Now the lawsuit against the former employees of the corporation was rejected by the District Court of California.

CD Projekt is preparing for trial with disgruntled investors. The studio said that it has faced at least one lawsuit and is now going to take the most “decisive” actions to protect itself.

New changes in American legislation are designed to toughen penalties for illegal streaming of content (including video games). Now violators can face up to 10 years in prison. Against this background, many began to worry that streamers would face criminal prosecution.This became known from the new amendments to the Law on Consolidated Appropriations for 2021, which provides government funding for federal projects and institutions.

What legal issues should you pay attention to when releasing the game, — he said Anton Wise, Legal Advisor at Alawar.

CD Projekt management has new problems. One of the Polish investors offered to sue the company. He accused the studio of criminally misrepresenting information about Cyberpunk 2077.

Semenov&Pevzner Law Firm has prepared a large-scale report on the largest legal conflicts in the gaming industry over the past six months.

Epic Games has a new ally in the fight against Apple. Facebook has sided with Fortnite developers, which has been dealing with the Apple company for several months.

The Wargaming case against Blitz Team continues to evolve. The Belarusian court sided with the former employees of the company, who were accused of violating intellectual property and unfair competition, and denied the claim for $ 1.69 million.What happened?

For the second time, Russian deputies postponed the date of entry into force of the law on mandatory software pre-installation. This time it was postponed until April 1, 2021 and a number of clarifications were made to the document.At the last meeting, which was broadcast on the website of the lower house of Parliament, an important clarification was adopted.

At the end of 2018, Netflix entered into negotiations with the CFO of Activision and eventually lured the employee to himself. Now the game publisher has sued the streaming service for interfering in contractual relations. At the same time, Netflix has been seen in similar actions with top managers of other companies before.The reason for the lawsuit was the transition of Activision CFO Spencer Neumann to a similar position at Netflix.

Yesterday it became known about a package of amendments to the law on the rights of the child. According to him, the Ministry of Health proposes to allow the examination of computer games for the threat to the mental health of children. We asked Roman Lukyanov, Managing Partner of Semenov &Pevzner Law Firm, to comment on this initiative.

The Ministry of Health of Russia is preparing a package of amendments to the law on the rights of the child. The innovations will make it possible to conduct an examination of computer games for the “possible risk to the mental health” of children. If such a risk is detected, the games will be banned for distribution.

Initially, the deadline for the sale of TikTok assets in the United States expired today, November 27. However, the country’s authorities gave ByteDance a one-week delay so that the company could have time to conclude the necessary deal.According to the new decision of the Administration of President Donald Trump, the deadline for the sale of TikTok’s American assets will expire on December 4.

Starting next year, it will be impossible to sell equipment in Russia without pre-installed browsers, messengers, antiviruses and many other programs. Today, the government announced a list of applications and devices that fall under this law.The resolution, which appeared today on the legal information website, was signed by the Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation Mikhail Mishustin.

The confrontation between Epic Games and Apple is getting bigger. This time, the owners of Fortnite appealed to the Federal Court of Australia. The reason is the same — Apple’s monopolistic behavior and violation of the rights of consumers (already Australian).

The package of measures that should help the Russian gaming industry raises questions for two reasons. First, there is no original document in the public domain. The available formulations are complex and contradictory. Secondly, if you dig into them, then the main and obvious beneficiary in them looks like Mail.Ru Group.