Posts Tagged ‘ EA ’

Real Racing 3 Launch Trailer Teases Game Hours Before Release

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Tweet Tomorrow, February 28, is the official release date of EA’s new Real Racing 3, and to celebrate the release EA released on last trailer for the game on GameTrailers. The Real Racing 3 trailer shows off the beautifully rendered real cars included in the new racing games. The car’s aren’t as articulately detailed...
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Zynga Lashes Back At EA With Countersuit, Hires Samsung’s Law Firm To Take …

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Defending itself with a strong offense, Zynga said EA was resorting to legal measures only because of its own dire straits. “The truth is that despite years of trying to compete, and spending more than a billion dollars on acquisitions, EA has not been able to successfully compete in the social-gaming space and was...
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APP MONDAY: The Simpson’s Tapped Out

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APP MONDAY: The Simpson’s Tapped Out

Monday, September 10th, 2012 at 12:25 pm Category: News, Video Games <!– –> Many games on the iPad and other mobile devices get pegged as a “time waster” by the gaming community. The title would be more offensive if it were any less true for a large portion of the games available. Simulation games...
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The gloves are off: EA vs. Zynga over copyright infringment

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The gloves are off: EA vs. Zynga over copyright infringment

Zynga has been copying games from smaller developers and creating their own versions of it. One developer, Nimblebit, wasn’t too pleased. They released a sarcastic image dedicated to Zynga (which you can see below) when Zynga took “inspiration” from their Tiny Tower game and created Dream Heights. Zynga wasn’t done taking “inspiration” from games....
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Fez developer turned down mobile port from Zynga

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Indie darling Fez could have made an appearance on mobile devices. According to a tweet from Polytron, the company was approached by none other than Zynga to bring the Xbox Live Arcade game to handheld devices. “We politely refused,” the tweet states, before taking a jab at the social media giant. “So, look forward...
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A Photo Retrospective of the Games Developers Claim Zynga Has Cloned

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A Photo Retrospective of the Games Developers Claim Zynga Has Cloned

Last week, EA filed a lawsuit against Zynga, claiming that the mobile giant’s title The Ville directly takes elements from their own popular game, The Sims Social, infringing on EA’s intellectual property. But they’re hardly the first company to make that claim. For years now, nearly every new Zynga release has come with allegations...
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Electronic Arts zaps Zynga and sues it for copying ‘The Sims Social’ game

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EA is suing San Francisco-based game developer, Zynga, for infringing its copyright over the popular online interactive game, “The Sims Social.” CopyVilleThe lawsuit against Zynga was filed at the San Francisco U.S. District Court for Northern California by Electronic Arts on Friday, and accuses Zynga of lifting many elements of EA’s game, “The Sims...
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The Web’s most shameless cloners are not from China

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Print Chinese companies get a lot of flak for being cloners and copycats that hit Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V on images and whole chunks of code to create “new” apps or web products. But let’s not forget that perhaps the world’s most notorious cloners these days are two companies that hail not from China, but from...
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The case against Zynga: What if EA wins?

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The case against Zynga: What if EA wins?

Electronic Arts’ game-copying lawsuit against Zynga could have wide-reaching ramifications for the mobile and social space if EA wins. And EA has a good chance of winning, according to a professor of law who specializes in digital games. Rutgers’ Greg Lastowka tells Gamasutra that it’s clear that Zynga’s The Ville has copied from The...
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