Singer Beyoncé Knowles is being sued for $100 million dollars for alleged breach of contract over a planned video game. 

According to court documents published by New York Magazine, developer Gate Five claims Beyoncé pulled out of a deal to lend her name to a dance game called Starpower: Beyoncé.

Gate Five claims that "though she had already negotiated lavish compensation terms to which she was contractually bound, at a critical moment in the project's development made an extortionate demand for entirely new compensation terms she wanted.

"When her maneuver backfired and drove away the financier (who found Ms. Carter too erratic to do business with), she pulled out of the project in breach of the agreement."

The collapse of the deal allegedly "destroyed Gate Five's business and drove 70 people into unemployment, the week before Christmas."

"Her actions were so unscrupulous that her then manager (who is also her father) renounced them, while a senior executive of the company that agreed to finance the project condemned her conduct as 'morally reprehensible.'"

"In early December everything was still a go. And then the week of Christmas, she said that's it, I don't want to hear from you guys, go away, resulting in 70 people losing their jobs," Gate Five founder Greg Easley told New York Magazine.

"We'd much rather make a game than litigate. But we want to recover damages that Gate Five suffered."

Gate Five's claim asks for $6.7 million in lost investment on top of $100 million in potential profits from the game.

Beyoncé's camp is yet to offer her side of the story.

 source: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-04-27-beyonce-sued-for-USD100m-over-canned-game

so misleading lol

hope she pays up for dropping out like that. gezz i fought having an game would be an great honour since the MJ game is kicking so much ass right now and an game on the Wii like that is an gold mine. 

Well the developers should of liked it and should of put a ring on it. 

It will be settled out of court or she'll do the game with them if they drop the lawsuit against her.

LOL great title and thread

I think the company was in trouble to begin with,if they were putting all of there time and energy into one project. 100 million dollars in profit,is a stretch in my opinion. 

kinding right, it would of been an wii game an look at the crap that is just dance, titles like this are gold mines on the wii. 

anyways the "the company was in trouble to begin with,if they were putting all of there time and energy into one project", alot of companies are in alot of trouble. small independant studios cant run multiple projects and most studios aren't staffed with 150-300 people to do so. 

They have to ask for more since every suit settles out of court for less than is asked for. When 70 people lost their jobs because someone walked out on an already signed contract I have no sympathy for them. Hopefully they settle quickly and the employees can get enough severance pay to find a job (which in this economy will be awhile).

he got me too. xD

Some of the comments on that article are brilliant.

"If they liked it then they should have put a ring on it"

"Beyonce's game would have been one of the greatest games of all time! The greatest of all time!"