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In the high-stakes corporate tort system, an elite squad of legal eagles handle lawsuits dealing with "World of Warcraft," "FarmVille," and others in the big business of video games. These are their stories. Some lawyers deal with corporate torts

John Vechey, co-founder of Seattle-based games maker PopCap Games, just sold his company to Electronic Arts for just under a billion dollars, so you might think he doesn't have to fret about success any longer. But according to Vechey, it's not success that CEOs need to be concerned about, but how they will deal with that success once it comes their way. Vechey, always humble, shared with our Inc.

Apple's fifth iPhone is expected to debut later this month, barely four years after its original model redefined the word smartphone. Here, we trace the burgeoning iPhone empire. Numerology: iDomination

Want to encourage creativity amongst your team? We asked CEOs, creative writers, and a comedy instructor, their tips for drawing out good ideas.

The winning bid for the design of the Olympic village in Rio is based on the shape of tropical flowers, and is designed to be replaced with more needed buildings once the games are over. Whether or not countries benefit from the infrastructure they build to host the Olympics is a subject for heated debate, but build they still must

With the arrival of games to the Google+ network came a handful of game developers and a dozen or so games. With Google+ in it infancy, why did these big companies publish their games there

Leave it to a psychologist at the University of Essex to discover that the secret sauce in irresistible video games is the characters' personalities--especially those that leave just enough creative space for players to pour themselves into.

You say you want a revolution?

This and more important news from your Fast Company editors, with updates all day. Social Net Hack Hits Millions Of Koreans . Malicious hackers have hit SK Telecom's popular Cyworld social sharing site and the email portal Nate too, stealing data that may include user phone numbers and other more personal (if encrypted) data about millions of site users.

This and other breaking news, updated throughout the day by Fast Company's editors. Google+ Games Will Cost Developers Less .

This and more important news from your Fast Company editors, with updates all day. No iPhone Games From Nintendo . A spokesman for the Japanese gaming giant confirmed yesterday that despite speculation, Nintendo won't make games for the ever-more popular iOS gaming platform

Social-gaming powerhouse Zynga just filed its S-1 to raise up to $1 billion in IPO. It appears virtual farms and online cities have treated the San Francisco-startup well: Zynga pulled in $91 million in profit on sales of $597 million. What's more, revenue is rocketing

Sunday, August 07 Corporate partnerships come and go -- unless you go into business with your best friend. To celebrate Friendship Day, we've rounded up our favorite (and most lucrative) friendships. Whether entertainers or tech geeks, these buddies mean business

Vasu Kulkarni is using his computer engineering and entrepreneurship degrees to elevate the playing experience for high-school basketball teams. | Photograph by David Yellen Startup Krossover is bringing number-crunching technology to high-school athletics. DATA ANALYTICS has recently become a red-hot trend in professional sports

Readers respond to our cover story about Etsy founder Rob Kalin, a feature about spying on the competition, and Jason Fried's column about running a flat company. The World of Etsy Our cover story about Etsy founder and CEO Rob Kalin [" Rob's World ," April ] sparked a lively online debate