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Activision has filed its motion to dismiss Manuel Noriega's (former dictator of Panama) absurd lawsuit over his depiction in Call of Duty: Black Ops 2. Former New York City Mayor and US Attorney Rudy Giuliani is serving as co-counsel.

A district court judge has granted EA a new trial in the suit it lost against Robin Antonick, the original creator of the Madden series. Judge Charles Breyer stated the jury lacked the evidence for a proper ruling, and should have been comparing source code rather than visual similarities.

Blizzard has filed suit against Chinese dev Unico, over its alleged Hearthstone copycat "Legend of Crouching Dragon." The suit seeks $1.65 million in damages.

It seemed the Duke Nukem Forever saga was finally over, released and sunk without a trace, but oh no, not quite. Creator 3D Realms has filed a lawsuit against Gearbox Software--the developer which bought DNF after 3DR failed then finished the game--claiming that the Borderlands developer hasn't paid everything it owes, and is blocking an audit to find quite how much that is.

Nintendo has won a dispute with Motiva LLC, which filed in 2008 regarding patents of its motion-sensing technology.

EA is set to pay out $27 million and swear not to renew its exclusivity agreement with the NCAA, as part of the settlement for a 2008 class-action lawsuit alleging such arrangements resulted in price-fixing.

A disgruntled sci-fi author is suing Ubisoft over the Assassin's Creed series, claiming that the open-world murder simulator rips off his novel 'Link.'

Console gamers are all too familiar with the now-commonplace practice of implementing online passes. This hidden cost is at the center of a recent lawsuit against GameStop.