Studio Kixeye has accused its owner Stillfront Group of non-payment of $ 30 million of the required remuneration. According to the materials of the lawsuit, Stillfront deliberately understated the financial results of Kixeye in order to evade the mandatory payment.

Activision Blizzard is facing a new lawsuit. This time, the company was sued by its own employees. They accuse her of intimidating employees, suppressing the organization of trade unions and using unfair labor practices.According to the Washington Post, the lawsuit was filed by Activision Blizzard employees in conjunction with the large Communications Workers of America (CWA) union.

The State of California believes that Activision Blizzard is obstructing an investigation into harassment. This includes the destruction of important documents. Against this background, the authorities expanded the lawsuit against the company, adding a number of changes and clarifications to it.Diablo II: Resurrected

Activision Blizzard is facing a class action lawsuit from investors who have suffered losses due to falling shares amid the harassment scandal. Bobby Kotick, meanwhile, assured that the company will soon change and become an example for the entire industry. And the employees talked about how the HR department systematically hushed up the problems.

Activision Blizzard was accused of discriminating against employees based on gender. According to the lawsuit, the company intentionally does not promote women in the service and understates their salaries. They complain about harassment and compare the atmosphere at work with the atmosphere of a fraternity. However, the company itself denies such accusations.The lawsuit was filed on July 20 in Los Angeles Superior Court following a two-year investigation.

A year after the harassment allegations, the famous game designer and screenwriter Chris Avellone spoke about the situation for the first time. He told his version of events in detail, pointed out the inaccuracies in the words of the girls and recalled how he lost his job in one day because of the cancellation culture. Avellon has also filed a libel suit and intends to defend himself in court.Source: Critical Path

Roblox allows users to embed special players into the games they create, through which music can be played. Major music labels don’t like it. They accuse the company of lost profits and demand at least $200 million in compensation.The lawsuit against Roblox was filed in the Central District Court of California, The Wall Street Journal reports.

Alexandra Kurdyumova, Senior Partner of the VERSUS.legal law firm, said App2Top.ru about a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against Capcom related to the illegal use of other people’s photos in their games. We discussed the legal specifics of the case, the statute of limitations and the available evidence base.Note: You can read more about designer Judy Juracek’s lawsuit against Capcom in our material.

Over the weekend, Capcom faced a multimillion-dollar lawsuit from designer Judy Juracek. She accused the company of illegally using her photos in games. Roman Lukyanov, Managing Partner of Semenov&Pevzner law Firm, said App2Top.ru about the specifics of such lawsuits, as well as whether Capcom could have committed intentional plagiarism.Evgeny Obedkov, App2Top.ru : The designer demands up to $12 million in compensation and payments of up to $25 thousand for each photo used.

Designer Judy Juracek filed a lawsuit against Capcom and accused the company of using her photos to create textures in their games. We are talking at least about Resident Evil 4 and Devil May Cry. Yurachek cites more than 200 examples of copying and demands over $10 million from a Japanese publisher.Resident Evil 4

After the scandalous release of Cyberpunk 2077, several law firms filed class-action lawsuits against CD Projekt on behalf of disgruntled investors. Now four of them have been combined into one. Its amount is still unknown.CD Projekt announced the court’s decision in a new report on its official website.

Indie studio Wolfire Games, known for the action game about anthropomorphic animals Overgrowth, initiated an antitrust class action lawsuit against Valve. The reason was the dominant position of the company in the PC market. The creators of Steam are accused of the fact that the high commission of the store allegedly forces publishers to raise prices and invest less money in development.Overgrowth

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.

Electronic Arts has been accused of using dynamic complexity technology in its three major sports franchises since 2017. The class action lawsuit against the company states that in this way users are forced to buy loot boxes.The lawsuit was filed in the District Court of Northern California, the newspaper reports Gamesindustry.biz .

Andrew Sinitsky, a resident of St. Petersburg, filed a lawsuit against the developers of the Great Sultan mobile game. In his opinion, 763.5 thousand rubles were illegally written off from him. Sinitsky filed a lawsuit not only against the developers of Mechanist Games, but also against Google along with Tinkoff Bank.

Rambler commented on a lawsuit against Twitch for $2.9 billion. One of the top managers said that Rambler Group does not exclude the possibility of a settlement agreement.