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Skillz (now Firy) wins $719M judgment against Papaya Gaming in largest false advertising award in history

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
July 28, 2026
3 min

Firy, formerly known as Skillz, won a $719 million judgment against Papaya Gaming in its long-running false advertising case. The U.S. District Court for...

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Skillz wins $420M judgment in lawsuit against Papaya alleging bot fraud in multiplayer games

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
April 23, 2026
3 min

Skillz won at least $420 million in a case against mobile gaming rival Papaya, after a jury found in its favor in allegations that...

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Skillz focuses on mobile esports tournaments.

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Skillz vs Papaya bots trial has its first day in court

Posted byby Rachel Kaser
April 15, 2026
1 min

Skillz Platform’s lawsuit against Papaya Gaming has officially begun, several months after a federal judge ordered it to go forward. Yesterday was the first...

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Skillz acquires Beamable to provide game backend and live ops services to devs | exclusive

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
February 4, 2026
6 min

Skillz, the mobile game skill-gaming platform, announced that it has acquired certain assets of Beamable, a modern game backend and LiveOps platform purpose- built...

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Federal judge allows Skillz fraud lawsuit against Papaya Gaming to proceed toward trial

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
October 29, 2025
2 min

Skillz won an important decision this week in the company’s fraud lawsuit against Papaya Gaming, Inc. Federal judge Denise Cole in U.S. Court in...

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Skillz will have $250 million in the bank after its SPAC transaction.

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Skillz files suit against Voodoo as part of its ongoing bot battle

Posted byby Rachel Kaser
July 3, 2024
2 min

Months after Skillz CEO Andrew Paradise said the mobile gaming platform was not done fighting against bots, the company has now filed another lawsuit....

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Skillz CEO says company isn’t done fighting bots in mobile gaming

Posted byby Rachel Kaser
May 9, 2024
2 min

Skillz CEO Andrew Paradise spoke in the company’s earnings call about the company’s recent lawsuit against AviaGames, and the alleged “willful pattern of deceit”...

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Skillz sues Papaya Gaming for defrauding players by using bots in skill-based games

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
March 5, 2024
2 min

Skillz has sued a second gaming company — Papaya Gaming — for using bots in skill-based games that are supposed to be between humans....

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Skillz and Big Run Studios allege that AviaGames has copied its Bingo game.

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Jury awards Skillz $42.9M in patent infringement trial

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
February 9, 2024
2 min

A jury has awarded Skillz a $42.9 million judgment in its patent infringement lawsuit against rival AviaGames. The jury found that Skillz provided a...

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Players sue AviaGames for racketeering for disguising bots as humans in skill-based games

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
November 21, 2023
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...

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