Skillz and Big Run Studios allege that AviaGames has copied its Bingo game.
Skillz and Big Run Studios allege that AviaGames has copied its Bingo game.
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Players sue AviaGames for racketeering for disguising bots as humans in skill-based games

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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  • 3 min

AviaGames’ legal troubles grew as players filed a class-action lawsuit against the company for allegedly using bots in what are supposed to be human-to-human skill-based games.

The class-action lawsuit represents players of games made by AviaGames, and it stems from copyright/patent litigation by Skillz against AviaGames. Skillz accused AviaGames of copying its ads and Big Run’s game on the Skillz platform, where human players wager money against each other. This is not considered gambling because it does not involve games of chance; rather, it’s human skill that wins the day.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.