SPOnG thought that it's time for a round-up of who is being sued in the world of video games today. We like to think of it as your one-stop-litigation-shop.

Let us start with who everybody thinks is being sued, but in fact is not. Step up Nintendo. It's being widely reported that ex-Midway employee Patrick Goschy was taking Ninty to the cleaners because he invented the Wii controller technology.

Not the case. For a start, Midway owned the patent, Nintendo included and paid for it. All Patrick wants, according to Engadget is, "I just wanted to people to know. Wanted the truth to come out. Did this 8 years ago, and the Wii has been such a huge deal, I wanted the truth to get out there. It wasn't these two or three Japanese guys that came up with this thing."

Apparently it's important to Pat that we all realise that it weren't them Japanese wot done it.

Check the guy out at the bottom of the story as he shows off his devices.

Okay, next up... Nintendo... and Sony. Yup, both of these corps are being sued by the same mysterious 'group' going by the name "The Copper Innovations Group". As far as we can see this is in fact one John M Copper - and has nothing do with innovating things using the metal. Details of the January 16, 1996 patent (number 5,640,152) are available here. In précis the suit regards control input devices for PlayStation 3 and Wii.

Microsoft isn't named for its Xbox 360 controller - which is not motion sensitive.

Never fear, however, as Microsoft is also getting some hard-court, sorry, hard, court action with regard to Xbox Live outages of the 'The Holiday' season. Texan law firm, called straightforwardly enough "Gibson Law Firm' is representing some disappointed gamers in the way it knows best, because Gibson Law Firm believes that "aggressive representation is effective representation".

Basically, big Jason Gibson is helping out Shannon Smith, Keith Kay and Orlando Perez in a breach of contract suit because the gamers couldn't game over Xmas.

You can read the original filing on the Jason A Gibson website here. But we'd suggest knocking politely what with all the aggressive posturing. We wonder if Microsoft might possibly have some aggressive legal representation too.

While these new suits have cropped up, we're still waiting on others from the likes of:

Nunez versus Microsoft and the Halo 3 affair.

Parallel Processing versus Sony over the great Cell Processor crime.

Microsoft versus Immersion over the Sixaxis scandal. This is the latest one, and not the 2003 case, and was mooted when Sony and Immersion decided to play nice together in March of last year.

And Finally...

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