The group of retired NFL players who filed a class-action lawsuit against the National Football League Players Association have won their suit and will be rewarded $28 million according to a report on GamePolitics this morning. It also turns out that EA’s Madden series played a key part in the decision, specifically a document that [...]

Microsoft has been hit with a class-action lawsuit in the state of California for the system’s much publicized failure issues, according to a post on DailyGamesNews.com.
“The lawsuit alleges that an excessive number of Xbox 360 consoles have failed, resulting in what is commonly known in the gaming community as the “red ring of death”. The [...]

Ever wonder why there are system shortages? Maybe it’s stories like these. Microsoft has sued DHL over the loss of 21,600 Xbox 360s due to a train wreck. Microsoft is looking for $2 million in damages, certainly small change to both companies. That’s actually fairly reasonable when you consider if these were all Arcade bundles, [...]

Hall of Famer running back Jim Brown isn’t happy. It seems his likeness (though not his name) is in Madden NFL 09 and no one paid him for it. The character, on an all-time Cleveland Browns squad, wears his number 32 with a similar body size. Brown stated in his complaint he “… never signed [...]

Remember when Rockstar lost out and was forced to refund or provide compensation to those who were offended by the infamous Hot Coffee incident? Apparently, no one else did either.
Out of the millions of copies sold with the supposedly offensive content on the disc, a meager 2,676 people filled out the necessary forms for their [...]

The dispute between Tecmo and Team Ninja continues to grow. After a dozen members left and sued, Tecmo has countered with a gag order on Tomonobu Itagaki forcing him to stay silent about his criticisms about the company, whether in print or online. He is also barred from accepting interviews, obstructing the companies business through [...]

Tomonobu Itagaki’s departure from Team Ninja and Tecmo got its fair share of headlines a few weeks back, and as of this morning, it looks like he won’t be the only one leaving the company soon.
According to a news article on 1UP.com yesterday, as many as three dozen Team Ninja employees are headed out the [...]

December 13, 2004 is a day that football games changed forever as Electronic Arts and the NFL entered an exclusive agreement with each other to make the Madden NFL series the only game in town. While there’s always been a vocal outcry from the community, today things definitely took an interesting turn as a select [...]