{"id":6698,"date":"2010-07-12T14:16:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-12T12:16:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"ex-infinity-warders-lawsuit-describes-activision-police-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/6698-ex-infinity-warders-lawsuit-describes-activision-police-state","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Infinity Warders\u2019 lawsuit describes Activision \u201cpolice state\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>You&rsquo;ve got to give it to them &ndash; Activision knows how to look amazing in the headlines. If it&rsquo;s not Bobby Kotick endorsing child slavery on Mars colonies (or whatever he&rsquo;s said lately), it&rsquo;s former Infinity Ward employees updating their existing &nbsp;lawsuit and alleging the company instituted a &ldquo;police state&rdquo; mentality to force production on the next Modern Warfare title.<\/p>\n<p>If you weren&rsquo;t already imagining a bunch of guys in colour-coded jumpsuits playtesting on vintage monochrome IBM machines, with a Blade Runner skyline in the background, you are now.<\/p>\n<p>The amendments also include unpaid bonus and damage claims of $216 million, a significant downsizing from the original $625 million. The update was filed on Friday, with a court date currently set 23 May 2011, although &ndash; with other former Infinity Ward guys Frank Zampella and Jason West filing similar litigation against Activision &ndash; a judge will hold a hearing in August to determine whether the two cases will be consolidated into a single trial.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doubleplus ungood working environment, say former employees<\/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-6698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6698","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=6698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}