{"id":11025,"date":"2011-04-01T09:49:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-01T07:49:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"back-in-the-news-silicon-knights-vs-epic-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/11025-back-in-the-news-silicon-knights-vs-epic-games","title":{"rendered":"Back in the news: Silicon Knights vs Epic Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Way back forever ago in 2007, Silicon Knights filed a lawsuit against Epic Games for alleged breaches of contract regarding the Unreal Engine 3, and the latter company&rsquo;s failure to provide adequate support during the development of Too Human. According to the claim, this severely impacted the game&rsquo;s development, while Epic concentrated on Gears of War instead.<br \/>The litigation stalled for one reason or another, Too Human was eventually released to mediocre reviews and bargain-binned within a month, and everybody forgot about it.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, however, two federal court judges finally ruled that the case can go to court.<\/p>\n<p>When Epic first went public about our case to the press, they said that our claims were without merit,&#8221; Silicon Knights boss Denis Dyack told <a href=\"http:\/\/kotaku.com\/#!5787413\/this-is-going-to-be-epic-too-human-creators-gear-up-for-legal-war-with-shooter-giant\" target=\"_blank\">Kotaku<\/a>. &#8220;Two separate federal court judges have now disagreed with Epic, and have ruled that the case does have merit.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Silicon Knights has always wanted to have our focus be on making great games, not litigation. This ruling will allow us to have our day in court, before a jury, and to shine the light publicly on Epic&#8217;s conduct. We are very confident the jury will see the truth behind Epic&#8217;s actions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dennis Dyack gets his day in court<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11025\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}