The American patent system is well known among techies – and not for good reasons. This is the entity that granted Amazon a patent for taking photos against a white background. Right now the US Patent and Trademark Office is considering giving a small publisher the patent protected rights to convert entities (PCs, Monsters, NPCs, […]
Wizards of the Coast sue Cryptozoic
Wizards of the Coast have filed a law suit against Cryptozoic in an American federal court. The Hasbro subsidiary claim that Cryptozoic’s Hex: Shards of Fate digital trading card game is a clone of Magic: The Gathering – Duels of the Planeswalkers. Wizards state that they attempted to resolve the issue before going to court […]
Mail Order Comics files for bankruptcy
Mail Order Comics has liabilities of $969,101 and assets of $43,790 and so it’s filed for bankruptcy in a federal American court. The company’s assets include 250,000 comics worth 10c and 1,500 graphic novels worth five bucks each. The company had AdanceMe among its lenders; a last resort, high interest, option. Diamond Comic Distributors are […]
Candy Crush Saga makers drag Banner Saga into their fights
Trademark law is a crazy thing. On one side we have The Banner Saga from Stoic, an independant developer, who’s made a game that looks great and plays better. On the other side we have King. King make the hugely popular Candy Crush Saga, Bubble Witch Saga, Pet Rescue Saga and others like Farm Heroes […]
Real life superheroes tackle assailant in supermarket brawl
In the supermarket Tesco in Musselburgh, Scotland, Robin was attacked by a 21-year old man. Fortunately for Robin, Batman was nearby and came to his rescue. Assisting Batman was David Hasselhoff and a Smurf. As local police tweeted – you couldn’t script it. Robin assaulted, police called, collective assisted our foot chase, minor upset to […]
DC/Vertigo lose Collider name
DC and Veritgo had one issue of a series called Collider out. The series had sci-fi writer Simon Oliver partnered with Robbi Rodriguez. The series followed The Federal Bureau of Physics as they investigated things like time loops or temporary failure in gravity. If you have an Issue 1, print run 1, Collider I’d keep […]
Jon Blake, creator of the Spoonheads, unhappy with Spoonheads in Doctor Who
Jon Blake’s House of Fun series of children’s books has sold over 60,000 copies. In the Cardiff author’s adventures the aliens are called the Spoonheads. In the Doctor Who episode The Bells of St John it is expected that the BBC will introduce a new villain known as the Spoonheads. The teaser image of the Doctor […]
Villains & Vigilantes RPG creators win legal battle over game
After a 20 month legal battle, Jeff Dee and Jack Herman have regained the rights to Villains & Vigilantes the roleplaying game they created in the 70s. The tussle over the rights of the game was between Dee and Herman and Scott Bizar of Fantsay Games Unlimited. In the end Magistrate Judge Mark E. Aspey […]
Regulators clear Activision Blizzard over any Nuketown 2025 wrong doing
UK regulators have found that Activision Blizzard did nothing wrong in how they advertised and later handled the pre-order bonus of the Nuketown 2025 bonus map for Call of Duty: Black Ops II for the Xbox. The authorities received official complaints about the advertising which argued that the map had been withdrawn too soon after […]
Real life Batman hands suspect over to police
In Bradford, United Kingdom, a man dressed as Batman handed over a suspect to Police at the Trafalgar House Station. The suspect was charged with dealing in stolen goods and on other fraud offences. A Police spokesman said; “The person who brought the man in was dressed in a full Batman outfit. His identity remains […]
