Late last week the Ninth Circuit upheld in full Epic Games' victory over Google in their titanic antitrust clash.  But with less than a fortnight left before a permanent injunction was set to fundamentally reshape the Android marketplace, Google did manage to secure an emergency administrative stay of enforcement as the platform giant continues to appeal the decision.  While it is unclear how successful these efforts will ultimately be given this outcome, this is yet another major victory for Epic Games.  In this blog post resident storyteller Jonathan Downing explains the court's reasoning and what this might mean for the parties—and other interested publishers—going forward.

In June, the Supreme Court released a whirlwind of opinions that could dramatically reshape our nation, including Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton (2024). This case—outwardly about regulating minors’ access to pornographic material—has the potential to disrupt established Free Speech protections, makes way for further regulation of the internet, and potentially impacts creative expression in games.

To put it mildly, there has been a lot going on in 2025, and that's no different in the games litigation space.  From the First Amendment to fair use, major cases over the last six months have run the gamut of important topics for the industry.  While putting all the different filings, holdings, and decisions together in one place would be a tall order indeed, our plucky team at Tyz Law Group's Games Law Blog has collected and compiled several of the most significant and impactful developments in games litigation in a mid-year roundup.  Take a look!

Two of the year's major annual games industry conferences—the DICE Summit and GDC—have now come and gone.  Tyz Law Group's resident Storyteller, Jonathan Downing, managed to survive both events relatively intact, and has gathered his observations and thoughts in our latest Games Law Blog post.

Public Domain Day 2025 saw many famous and noteworthy works enter the public domain, including numerous firsts in cinema and some developments in a certain famous cartoon mouse.  In this blog post, we go into what new works have fallen into the public domain, and how the unique nature of character copyrightability is affected by that status.