28 Mar, 2024 Latest Class Action Complaint Against Roblox Continues Trend of Virtual Gambling Lawsuits By Daniel J. McGinn As casino gaming attempts to integrate itself further into the mainstream, operators have increasingly targeted a younger, more diverse...
27 Mar, 2024 Top-ranked in all practice areas in Legal 500 EMEA 2024 By Hassans International Law Firm Ltd Hassans is pleased to announce that it has once again achieved top tier rankings in all areas covered by Legal 500 EMEA for Gibraltar....
22 Mar, 2024 Florida Supreme Court Rejects Quo Warranto Challenge to the Seminole Compact By Daniel J. McGinn The Florida Supreme Court denied the petition for quo warranto, which sought a declaration that the Governor exceeded his authority when...
21 Mar, 2024 Miniclip's game ad gets caught in a loot of trouble By Ardie Yilinkou Loot boxes continue to be a hot topic amongst the UK games industry, the government and regulatory bodies, due to their resemblance to...
15 Mar, 2024 Blockus raises $4m in pre-Seed funding By Samantha Wulfson California based web3 gaming tech stack and payments provider raised $4m in pre-Seed funding led by Maple VC.
15 Mar, 2024 Keeping It Civil S2 E3: The Gaming Sector in Gibraltar By Hassans International Law Firm Ltd Keeping It Civil Podcast host Selwyn Figueras talks to Hassans' Gaming Partner Andrew Montegriffo, Senior Associate, Louise...
23 Feb, 2024 Gibraltar re-added to the FATF white list. By Hassans International Law Firm Ltd We are delighted to announce that, following the latest FATF Plenary held in Paris this week FATF Week February 2024 (fatf-gafi.org),...
16 Feb, 2024 Helika raises $8m in Series A funding By Sarah Wolter Toronto based provider of data analytics and data infrastructure for traditional and web3 gaming raised $8m in Series A funding led by...
08 Feb, 2024 A&M Event Series: Interactive Entertainment for Creatives By Fiona Vickerstaff On 6 February, Nick Allan (partner in our DCC team and head of the Interactive Entertainment practice at Lewis Silkin) hosted the next...
23 Jan, 2024 EVENT: Interactive entertainment for creatives By Nick Allan On Tuesday 6th February, I am hosting the next webinar in the A&M Event Series: Interactive entertainment for creatives: Legal top tips...
18 Jan, 2024 UK: Game on – Valve’s geo-blocked games infringe EU competition law By Quinn Liang Dr Saskia King The EU’s General Court upheld the European Commission’s gaming-related decision that Valve had breached EU competition law. As a result,...
15 Jan, 2024 Gaming - Legal trends in 2024 By Alex Roberts Verity Egerton-Doyle Gaming has become the world’s biggest entertainment industry and is at the forefront of harnessing technological advances. Looking ahead...
15 Jan, 2024 On to the next? European Commission launches consultation on competition in virtual worlds and GenAI By Verity Egerton-Doyle Erasmia Petousi You might think that with less than two months to go until compliance with the Digital Markets Act (DMA) becomes mandatory on 6 March,...
02 Jan, 2024 Tech Predictions for 2024! By James Gill Welcome to this year’s technology predictions! In the realm of tech, let's take a peek,A lighthearted poem, predicting the tech peakIn...
27 Dec, 2023 Not a game: How China’s proposed new gaming laws will tighten restrictions on online gaming industry By Alex Roberts Tiantian Ke On 22 December, the National Press and Publication Administration of the People’s Republic of China (NPPA) published proposals to further...
08 Dec, 2023 The Rise of Generative AI in Gaming and Its Legal Challenges (Part 2) By Dr. Simon Hembt Oliver Belitz The first part of this series underscored the opportunities that generative AI (“GenAI”) presents for the gaming industry. It also...