PUBG Makers Start Suing Over Copyrights And Frying Pans

Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds isn’t endearing itself much to the community in its response to imitation. Far from flattered, the PUBG team have gone from threatening Epic to filing against mobile games who chomp their flavor. Source: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2018/04/06/playerunknowns-battlegrounds-creators-sue-mobile-games-for-copyright-infringement-and-frying-pan-use/

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Steam Isn’t Fine: Indie Game Performs 20 Times Better On Switch Than Steam

The Nintendo Switch is becoming the indie platform of choice while Steam Direct has turned Valve’s storefront into a choked mess where games go to fail. Source article: http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2018/03/16/blossom-tales-developers-avoid-closing-thanks-to-switch-sales-after-poor-steam-showing.aspx Source image for Steam releases: https://u.cubeupload.com/0TCFhm.jpg

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Patent Trolls Attempting To Shake Down Clicker Heroes Dev

Source: https://www.clickerheroes2.com/patent_trolls.php Patent trolls are especially despicable, to the point where I’d probably celebrate even Activision Blizzard putting one down. Targeting smaller developers and offering them glorified blackmail options is their stock and trade though, and here we see GTX Corp trying to give Playsaurus some classic shakedown treatment.

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