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Valve Sues Activision, Activision Threatens to Return Fire

Posted 04/30/09 at 09:44:05 PM  by Nathan Grayson

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Looks like E3 won’t be the only time we’ll be seeing more than half of the gaming industry under one roof in the near future.
 
After totally serving Activision with God as its witness, Valve’s sicking its lawyers on Activision again – this time, because Activision tried to weasel out of the agreement the two gaming giants made last time they duked it out in court. Confusing, right? Let us break it down for you.
 
Due to a 2002 dispute over royalties, Valve sued Activision. Valve more or less won, and Activision agreed to throw the Half-Life creator a bone to the tune of $2,391,932. So far so good, but without the watchful eye of the law staring the two companies in the face, things fell apart.
 
Soon after litigations came to an end, Activision decided that Valve had been overpaid by $424,136 in previous years. Thus, when Valve’s hard-earned check finally showed up, it read $1,967,796 instead of the full amount agreed upon in court. As a result, Valve’s firing up the ol’ litigation machine again, and Activision is threatening to counter-sue.
 
Personally, we’d rather just have respective company heads Gabe Newell and Bobby Kotick hop in the cage and throw hands, but then, lack of widespread fighting is just one of the many drawbacks of today’s legal system. Oh well.

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TAGS: gaming, Software, news, Valve, lawsuit, Activision Blizzard
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avatarWell, it's another clash of

Submitted by mikeart03a on Fri, 05/01/2009 - 2:12am

Well, it's another clash of the titans. No offence to Activision, but maybe it's time for them to ship out. Over the last few years, their titles have gone so far down the drain to the point where every game from them as of late is a remake or rehash of its predecessor.

- mike_art03a
IT Technician
Gov't of Canada

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avatarValve is Going to Win, Hands Down

Submitted by Stry8993 on Thu, 04/30/2009 - 9:42pm

Activision should've died alongside it's redundant and monotonous Tony Hawk Franchise. Spider man game? Suck. Spider man game 2? Suck. :O! Guitar Hero? which one? Call of Duty 1? same thing as call of duty 4, why don't you just recycle the engine. At least Valve's source engine makes amazing games like Zeno Clash come to life, where as shat games like 007: We Made Another Sucky 007 Game - Not EA Edition... bah! Blizzard... why? If it weren't for Starcraft 2 and Diablo 3... and world of paycheque, who'd be paying activisions bills? Exactly...

 

 Go Gabe! Next thing you know, we'll hear HL2 music in Guitar Hero, as a slap to the face of Activision ordered by the courts.

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avatarnot good

Submitted by BizSAR on Thu, 04/30/2009 - 9:15pm

This really only hurts the people that writes their paychecks: US.

~BizSAR

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avatarGo Valve! Tear their stupid

Submitted by Vegan on Thu, 04/30/2009 - 8:45pm

Go Valve! Tear their stupid Horde throats out!

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avatarTwo men enter.  One man

Submitted by Jox on Thu, 04/30/2009 - 7:14pm

Two men enter.  One man leaves.

 

-Jox

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