{"id":12812,"date":"2011-07-08T11:55:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-08T09:55:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"namco-bandai-sues-cd-projekt-over-witcher-2-xbox-publishing-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/12812-namco-bandai-sues-cd-projekt-over-witcher-2-xbox-publishing-deal","title":{"rendered":"Namco Bandai sues CD Projekt over Witcher 2 Xbox publishing deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the original PC launch of The Witcher 2, CD Projekt RED signed up a pretty substantial number of publishing partners to cover various territories, including Atari in North America, 1C Company in Russia, and Namco Bandai in Europe.<\/p>\n<p>Now with the Xbox release coming up, they&rsquo;ve made a deal with THQ in Europe, a decision which Namco Bandai is disputing in the time-honoured tradition of inter-corporate conflict resolution &ndash; an axe duel to the death. Wait no; I read that wrong. It&rsquo;s just a lawsuit. Although an axe duel would have been way cooler.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, CD Projekt doesn&rsquo;t seem too concerned about it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our financial situation is very good at the moment and the lack of a few million does not have any impact on current activities. Withholding of payments means only that after some time, our partner will have to give us the money,&rdquo; the CD Projekt&#8217;s CEO, Adam Kicinski, tells Polish site, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdaction.pl\/news\/20514\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"CDAction\">CDAction<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerandvideogames.com\/310767\/news\/witcher-2-dev-faces-legal-action-over-xbox-360-publisher-switch-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"CVG\">CVG<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I hope that the whole thing will end with a pre-litigation settlement. If it doesn&#8217;t, I am sure that we will win the case and then the loser will pay for our lawyers. The agreement that we signed last year, concerned only the distribution of The Witcher 2 for the PC. The records were carefully clarified to avoid any ambiguity.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/15500-Namco-Bandai-sues-CD-Projekt-RED\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Namco Bandai sues CD Projekt over Witcher 2 Xbox publishing deal\">Namco Bandai sues CD Projekt over Witcher 2 Xbox publishing deal<\/a><\/strong> &lt;&lt; Comments and views<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Or, more properly, the lack of one<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"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-12812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12812","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\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}