August 26, 2024
A website that circulated cheat codes for the video game "Destiny 2" failed to convince the Ninth Circuit on Monday that it got an unfair shake in front of an arbitrator who told the site to pay $4.4 million for breaking copyright and trademark laws.
May 24, 2024
A federal jury said Friday that people behind a video game cheat code owe Bungie about $63,000 for replicating a sci-fi shooter's code to make the cheat software and peddle it on the internet, capping off a nearly weeklong copyright trial in Seattle.
May 23, 2024
A Seattle federal judge overseeing a trial of Bungie's copyright claims against a group of cheat code sellers instructed jurors Thursday that the defendants intentionally destroyed evidence by deleting records they had a duty to preserve once they were aware of the game studio's claims.
May 21, 2024
A top product security engineer at Bungie told a Seattle federal jury on Tuesday that a hacker accused of exploiting a popular game to make cheat software likely never had access to the game's source code and acknowledged the game company hasn't seen the cheat code that it claims amounts to copyright infringement.
May 20, 2024
Video game studio Bungie kicked off a Seattle copyright trial on Monday by telling federal jurors a group of cheat code sellers deleted financial records and other data and even fabricated a fake press release about the sale of their website to throw Bungie and its attorneys off their scent.
January 19, 2024
Video game developer Bungie slammed a cheat code seller on Friday for its Ninth Circuit appeal of a $4.4 million arbitration award, saying the entire challenge rested on a single objection the arbitrator properly sustained over the wording of one question during a three-day evidentiary hearing.
November 21, 2023
A cheat code seller has urged the Ninth Circuit to void a roughly $4.4 million arbitration award against it stemming from video game company Bungie's copyright and trademark dispute, arguing the arbitrator blocked it from cross-examining a key witness.
November 02, 2023
A Washington federal judge said he would tell a jury it could presume allegedly destroyed evidence in game-maker Bungie's intellectual property suit was unfavorable to the defendant, the developer of a cheat software for the game Destiny 2.
October 17, 2023
A Washington federal judge has tossed cybersecurity counterclaims from a developer of cheat software for the video game Destiny 2, the latest event in a larger dispute with game-maker Bungie.
June 14, 2023
A Washington federal judge has affirmed game maker Bungie's $4.4 million arbitration award in its suit accusing a cheat code seller of offering software that infringes its copyrights and trademarks for the developer's Destiny 2 video game.