Silicon Knights ordered to recall and destroy all unsold copies of Too Human, X-Men Destiny, more

[theRepublic]

ECM said:

theRepublic said:

ECM said:

theRepublic said:
Wow, Epic are dicks.

Err, SK filed suit against Epic, so I'm not sure how they're being "dicks", per se, unless the suggestion is that protecting their interests=dicks.

(I'm no fan of Epic's graphics arms race of industry doom, but they are hardly to blame for SK's self-inflicted wounds.)

Epic filed a countersuit.

I would really like to know how in the world SK, "breached their Unreal license agreement, misappropriated Epic's trade secrets and infringed Epic's copyrights in the Unreal Engine 3 code."

Filing a countersuit would imply protecting your interests. (This wouldn't be an issue at all, most likely, if SK didn't go after Epic in the first place.)

And how? Probably because the court found that they had used chunks of UE3 code in their engine--or did something in their engine that looked exactly like how UE3 implements it--intentionally or otherwise.

You can do that by winning the origial lawsuit.

SK licensed the UE3 engine for their games.