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Amongst legal drama, Chaosium gives Christmas gift to Éditions Sans-Détour backers

December 23, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Éditions Sans-Détour has a license problem. They've not paid for their rights to the French rights of Call of Cthulhu for months, and the lease has now expired.

Filed Under: Tabletop RPGs Tagged With: Call of Cthulhu, Chaosium, Éditions Sans-Détour, legal

Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica cover artist and two other D&D illustrators banned from entering America

August 28, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

Titus Lunter is an illustrator and concept artist who has worked on Dungeons & Dragons, Magic: the Gathering and for companies like Riot and Valve. Anna Steinbauer is an illustrator who has also worked on Magic: the Gathering.…

Filed Under: Tabletop RPGs Tagged With: Anna Steinbauer, Dungeons & Dragons, Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica, legal, Magali Villeneuve, magic the gathering, Titus Lunter, wizards of the coast

D&D’s Gary Gygax’s widow is being sued by Hollywood over a dungeon

August 15, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Gary Gygax - the guy who really enjoyed playing gamesUrg, this looks messy. Two years ago the movie producer Tom DeSanto (X-Men, Transformers and this summer’s Bumble Bee) struck a deal to ‘oversee the Gygax catalog of published and unpublished works’.…

Filed Under: Tabletop RPGs Tagged With: Gary Gygax, gygax magazine, legal, luke gygax

Is the Dutch solution to Loot Boxes more evil than the problem?

July 25, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Transparent Loot Box - DotA 2The Dutch banned Loot Boxes and Valve removed them in June. Wesley Yin-Poole has a nice write up the situation over at Eurogamer. In essence; Loot Boxes are gambling. You pay money for them and don’t know what you’ll get back.…

Filed Under: PC Tagged With: dota 2, legal, valve

Games Workshop sued for $62,500,000

August 7, 2017 by Andrew Girdwood 5 Comments

Spikey Bits is reporting that a games store owner and legal council David Moore is suing Games Workshop for $62.5m in an American court. As the Spikey Bits video notes this lawsuit seems to have gone under the radar.…

Filed Under: Tabletop RPGs Tagged With: games workshop, legal, spikey bits

Call of Cthulhu’s Sandy Petersen sues PayPal

December 29, 2016 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Petersen Entertainment LP has taken PayPal to court for withholding $57,000 in funds. The money due apparently relates to a Kickstarter for one of the 12 games the company has successfully funded.…

Filed Under: Tabletop RPGs Tagged With: cthulhu wars, kickstarters, legal, paypal, Sandy Petersen

Cards Against Humanity faces lawsuit on Kickstarter bullying

December 13, 2016 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

You won’t find the card game Humanity Hates Trump on Kickstarter because a cease and desist letter from Cards Against Humanity was enough for the platform to pull the plug. Cards Against Humanity is normally a cool company so what was its beef with Humanity Hates Trump?…

Filed Under: Tabletop RPGs Tagged With: cards against humanity, kickstarters, legal

Will Stephen Byrne’s animated Firefly ever air?

August 16, 2016 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

This trailer for The Animated Adventures of Firefly will make you wish you could watch it now. We don’t know when it’s coming. We’re teased: soon. What will Fox do? Will they hold back the lawyers?…

Filed Under: Online Shows Tagged With: animation, firefly, legal, Stephen Byrne, the animated adventures of firefly

Villains and Vigilantes lawsuit settled

April 25, 2016 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

I hope this is good news all around. The Villains & Vigilantes lawsuit has been settled. While the specific terms (including damages) will remain private important details have been released by Monkey House Games.…

Filed Under: Tabletop RPGs Tagged With: fantasy games united, jack herman, jeff dee, legal, monkey house games, scott bizar, superheroes, Superhuman Games, Villains & Vigilantes

Gygax Magazine to close

January 22, 2016 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

There had been some dispute over the name of the Gygax Magazine. The magazine had Luke and Ernie Gygax on board if not the whole Gygax Estate but now that’s changed.…

Filed Under: Tabletop RPGs Tagged With: Gary Gygax, gygax magazine, legal, tsr games

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