Gaming, Mobile Applications & Digital Platforms

Game systems and technical infrastructure

Modern games are large distributed systems, and the disputes around them reflect that complexity. Our experts examine game engines and client code, server and networking architecture, and anti-cheat and account-security systems, and assess how they were built, deployed and operated.

That covers alleged copying of game systems and assets, contested ownership of engines and tooling, outages and performance failures, and the cheating and fraud that live-service titles have to defend against.

Monetisation models and player economies

Much of the commercial dispute in this sector concerns how games and apps make money. Our experts analyse in-app purchase and subscription systems, virtual currencies and player-driven economies, advertising and attribution technology, and the design choices that sit behind them.

We explain objectively how a monetisation model actually functioned, how value moved through it, and whether it operated as users, partners or regulators were led to expect.

Mobile applications and platform ecosystems

Games and apps do not exist in isolation; they run on platforms with their own rules, SDKs and commercial terms. Our experts address disputes across the mobile and platform ecosystem, including app-store distribution and policy, third-party SDK and API behaviour, and the demands of high-scale, high-availability environments.

Presenting the technical picture

Whether the matter is an IP claim, a commercial dispute or a regulatory question, we set out the technology plainly and impartially in CPR Part 35 compliant reports and, where needed, under cross-examination, so the court can see clearly how the product in question was built and how it behaved.