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  • 9 Weird Video Game Tidbits From The Elon Musk Biography

    9 Weird Video Game Tidbits From The Elon Musk Biography

    Walter Isaacson’s recently published biography of unhinged kingpin Elon Musk, Elon Musk, unloaded several bombshells about Musk’s family and hectic approach to business, but the real gold is his relationship to video games. So I compiled nine revealing video game facts from the Musk biography to help piece it together. The way Musk interacts with…


  • IKEA Asks Horror Game to Change So People Stop Comparing It to IKEA

    IKEA Asks Horror Game to Change So People Stop Comparing It to IKEA

    In an unexpected move, furniture giant IKEA has sent a solo indie developer a cease and desist letter reviewed by Kotaku, demanding he make changes to his unreleased survival horror game set in an IKEA-like furniture store. Lawyers representing IKEA are claiming that the game commits trademark infringement because some press outlets have drawn comparisons between…


  • Fortnite’s Getting Sued by a Dance Choreographer

    Fortnite’s Getting Sued by a Dance Choreographer

    On March 29, lawyers representing choreographer Kyle Hanagami sued Epic Games for copyright infringement over the “It’s Complicated” dance emote in Fortnite. The in-game emote begins with movements which Hanagami’s lawyers allege are lifted from copyrighted dance moves created by the choreographer. The lawsuit was filed in the Central District of California, and states that…