Well, that’s one hell of a lawsuit. Polygon and GI.biz are reporting that a Texas-based company called Virtual Gaming Technologies, LLC recently filed lawsuits against Activision Blizzard, Electronic Arts, Take-Two, Zynga, and Konami. Jeez guys, you sure you didn’t leave out a few companies there?

The lawsuit claims that these companies are infringing on a pair of patents held by William Junkin, the chairman and CEO of FantasySports.com– which is a patent held for interactive games or game modes based on events happening in real time, such as fantasy football teams. Fans of these companies’ games will probably recognize that titles such as NBA 2K, FIFA, Madden, and PES have all moved towards evolving to a service based platform in the recent past, with the games reflecting real life player transfers, roster changes, and other developments.

Suspiciously enough, Virtual Gaming Technologies seems to be fairly new as a company, having formed in Texas in late September. It’s filed no fewer than 16 lawsuits in US District Courts, GI.biz reports.

Basically, we’re looking at patent trolls here, and hopefully, this case will be dismissed by the courts as it deserves to be.

We haven’t had a NASCAR game for a while now, but it looks like that might be about to change. A brand new studio, DMi Games, based in North Carolina, has acquired the license to develop NASCAR games going forward, and it has confirmed that a new game based on the property is under development for the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One right now.

The series has been in limbo for a while due to the complexities involving licensing, which were explained by DMi Games.

DMi Games president Ed Martin explains: “Just to give you some context, a contemporary NASCAR video game has more than 1,000 licensed and approved properties in it. That’s a lot of stakeholders and people to get organized!”

“We are already hard at work on several new games including an all-new NASCAR racing sim created by DMi for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC that we expect to release in 2016,” he explained.

So yes, you should be seeing a new NASCAR game some time next year. Hopefully it’s good.

Deep Silver have announced that NASCAR 14 will be hitting the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 in early 2014. The newest NASCAR game is being developed by Eutechnyx.

“NASCAR is a hugely popular sport, second only to the NFL in TV ratings with licensed games having been published by Activision in recent years. Deep Silver is thrilled to have acquired the publishing rights to NASCAR ’14 and looks forward to cultivating a long-term relationship with both the fans and the franchise,” said Deep Silver Inc. COO, Geoff Mulligan.

The newest title features a season highlights mode, which lets you recreate key moments from the season, a career mode, officially licensed cars and track, and online multiplayer.

In addition, it also features player leagues, which lets everyone duke it out with their own group of friends to see who is the best.

Stay tuned to GamingBolt for more coverage on the game, including a full review once it launches.