This video, recorded on a smartphone and therefore not superb quality, shows the “real-life superhero” (or hero or vigilante), knocking-out a man suspected of racist assult. Phoenix Jones and some of his Rain City Superhero Movement stepped up to deal with a man shouting racial slurs. They called 911 and tried to walk away but […]
Wizards of the Coast sued over trading card patent
We’re used to seeing tech companies suing tech companies in the States. It’s a strange system worth billions of dollars. A company called Wildcat Intellectual Property Holdings filed a case against Nintendo, Sony, EA, Konami, Zynga and Wizards of the Coast last year in a patent battle. The name ‘Intellectual Property Holdings’ suggests that Wildcat […]
Amazon to rebate some US customers
A coalition of American Attorneys Generals has made significant progress in an antitrust lawsuit brought against publishers and retailers. The claim was that the price of ebooks had been rigged unfairly. Hachette, HarperCollins and Simon and Schuster have come to a settlement with the coalition. Amazon Kindle customers, in the States, received an email with […]
Stan Lee Media sues Disney for $5.5 Billion
Let’s write out all the zeroes Stan Lee Media are hoping to take off Disney. It’s $5,500,000,000. Hmm. Tasty. The grounds of the case are pretty straight forward (unless you start to get too legal). Stan Lee Media claim ownership over all the characters that Stan Lee ever invented. This means they want cash from […]
Michigan Batman arrested for refusing to leave crime scene
Police in Michigan had to arrest Batman on Saturday. Or rather, for the second time, police had to arrest Mark Wayne Williams who was dressed as Batman. There had been a road traffic accident and Batman-Williams wanted to help look for the driver. The problem? Police were using a dog to try and track the […]
GamrCred forced to change name
GamrCred, the site that monitors and ranks your computer game prowess, is having to change names after another company thought the name was too close to “streetcred”. In an email to early adopters, the young site said; “After hours of deliberation with $1,000/hr lawyers who actually said we had a good case against said company […]
WizKids win Injunction against Tree House Kids Heroics
Zerboz are a range of 1″ tall, fully sculpted & painted figures in blind packaging designed for kids. There’s a Marvel range and a DC one. Previously, Tree House Kids used the word “Heroics” to describe the range. Now, Heroics is a general word from the dictionary but it’s also awfully close to HeroClix. HeroClix, […]
Gamers win in the Fantasy Flight and Stronghold “Merchant of Venus” showdown
Back in October 2011, Geek Native posted about game companies battling over Merchant of Venus. It was an awkward situation. Stronghold games signed a deal with the game’s designer and announced a new edition of Merchant of Venus. At the same time, Fantasy Flight Games announced a new edition of Merchant of Venus after signing […]
Standards body rules against Activision
In the United Kingdom the ASA is celebrating 50 years of helping to enforce legal, decent, honest and truthful advertising. Today they ruled against Activision and adverts for Call of Duty Elite. The Call of Duty Elite site was designed as an online community for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and offered both a free […]
Illegal dinosaur sold for over $1 million
This sounds like the start of a roleplaying scenario. The nearly complete remains of a Tyannosaurus bataar (closely related to Tyannosaurus rex) has been sold for over $1m. The sale, though, was despite a judge in Dallas ordering the auction hose not to sell the skeleton. The 80 million year old creature is believed to […]
