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The Brexit trap for British publishers going to the Essen Game Fair
The 2019 Essen Game Fair runs from 24th October to the 27th October, which is a Sunday. As it stands now, on 31st October the UK is on course to crash out of the European Union. The British Government’s advice is that by 11 pm on the 31st goods moving from the EU (Germany) to […]
It is illegal to sell cosplay contact lens in the UK
It turns out that it’s illegal to sell contact lens, even zero-powered ones used for cosmetics and cosplay, to anyone who does not need them.
Board games, models and dice caught up in US-China trade war
This is not a done deal. There will be hearings on the proposal on June 17th and if they pass then 25% tariffs could be in force by June 24th.
Amongst legal drama, Chaosium gives Christmas gift to Éditions Sans-Détour backers
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.
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica cover artist and two other D&D illustrators banned from entering America
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. Magali Villeneuve is an artist and fantasy author who’s worked on (no prizes for guessing) Magic: the […]
D&D’s Gary Gygax’s widow is being sued by Hollywood over a dungeon
Urg, 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DeSanto (X-Men, Transformers and this summer’s Bumble Bee) struck a deal to ‘oversee the Gygax catalog of published and unpublished works’. Now, according to the widow of Dungeons & Dragons co-creator, she is being used by him and New Myth Entertainment for $30 million. […]
Is the Dutch solution to Loot Boxes more evil than the problem?
The 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. The situation was made even worse (or more addictive) with loot box trading and […]
Games Workshop sued for $62,500,000
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. It’s two months old. Indeed, a search on Google News is not fruitful, doesn’t find much […]
Call of Cthulhu’s Sandy Petersen sues PayPal
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. The complaint [PDF link] stats that Petersen has been fulfilling gamers’ orders despite PayPal withholding funds. This is good news for gamers as […]
