kevin

Must be a slow news day ...

You should really know what you're talking about BEFORE you make posts about companies suing each other.

as zerok2 said, the harmony gold vs fasa case was about 16 or so mechs that robotech and battletech shared. If my memory serves me right, the artists who drew the mechs sold the artwork to both TCI and HG, giving neither exclusivity rights. Fasa bought the rights from TCI to use those designs. by the time HG sued fasa, TCI was long gone, and FASA had trouble coming up with documents saying they bought rights.

Recently catalyst game labs bought the rights to battletech, and started to sort through the legal nonsense that was this lawsuit. they talked to some lawyers and thought they had it all sorted out; they prepped to make an unveiling of the 'unseen' mechs for the 25th anniversary. Right after, HG put a cease-and-desist out, and catalyst canned its plans to bring them back.

Now some of those mechs made it into the trailer, due to the fact what a better way to celebrate a reboot and the 25th anniversary than with some of the most famous designs. after the threat of legal action, they dropped it, it's over and done with.

Now why would they put a cease and desist out for a movie that hasn't even been shot yet? Why would they put the designs in they know they can't use? I don't see your logic other than to stir the pot.

To be honest though? I'd love to see HG take on battletech now. They are a much larger company than when this lawsuit happened, and im pretty sure they didn't have a legal leg to stand on, just bullied FASA around because they were so small. IF it's true that this movie is in the works, HG would have a bitch of a time getting past dreamworks lawyers.

im with you on this - mg1 .. maybe 2. its not raiden, its grey fox.

zone of the enders 3?

just add some jokes about the original game and seek protection under parody law.

im pretty sure the only reason they c/d them was because they used the original sprites. if they made new ones, i dont think square enix would have a case.

wrong.

The phrase is utter nonsense if you try to logic it out.

It's slang. It's sarcastic. Now get back on topic.

I felt this way when nextgen bit it.

I could care less about EGM, but I guess they could have done it more, uh, humanely.

One of the most entertaining fiction writers of our time. And you'd be hard pressed to find one critic who would completely disagree with me. The Palahniuk of cyberpunk - he can write one good story. (english as a first language)

warnings really don't cut it these days anymore.

Also there are plenty of circumstances were you wouldn't see the warning - what if it was a demo running in a store? Or a friend that stopped by? what if someone recorded a video of a high score and posted it on the net? what if someone purposefully showed it to someone who was sick?

I think it would just be a bad idea for something like that to slip through.

what i wanna know is did they get rid of the obvious nazi undertones? If so, nes wins.