Too Human update: Silicon Knights sues Epic Games

Not long after stating that Too Human was exceeding all expectations, Silicon Knights chief Denis Dyack surprised the gaming community by filing a lawsuit against Epic Games. Claiming they’ve been subjected to numerous breaches of contract ever since they licensed the Unreal Engine 3, Silicon Knights was left with no choice but to go to court to sue Epic Games for Fraud, Misrepresentation, Unfair Competition, and Breach of Contract just to name a few.

Silicon Knights claims that instead of getting the support promised to them when they bought their license to the Unreal Engine, Epic Games was “sabotaging efforts by Silicon Knights and others to develop their own video games” by using “fees from those licenses to launch its own game to widespread commercial success” instead of developing the engine for their licensees.

Citing Too Human’s E3 ’06 demo as an example, Dyack states that the game’s negative feedback was a direct result of Epic’s sabotage to make their own titles look good. “Epic apparently was able to achieve a very useable version of the Engine for the Xbox 360 – the version that it kept to itself, for use only on its Gears of War game,” Dyack said. As a result, Too Human had poor game impressions while Gears of War went on to win “best of show”.

Silicon Knights has since decided to scrap the use of Epic Game’s Unreal Engine 3, and develop an independent engine on their own.

Mark Rein responded by stating that Epic Games is innocent and that “the claims against us (Epic Games) are unfounded and without merit, and we intend to fully defend against them.”

So does this mean another delay? Most probably. Comments from both companies seem to indicate that this case may stay in the courts for a while. And just when we thought things were going so well, things had to hit the fan. For more information on what the lawsuit entails, you can check out the read link below.

Not long after stating that Too Human was exceeding all expectations, Silicon Knights chief Denis Dyack surprised the gaming community by filing a lawsuit against Epic Games. Claiming they’ve been subjected to numerous breaches of contract ever since they licensed the Unreal Engine 3, Silicon Knights was left with no choice but to go to court to sue Epic Games for Fraud, Misrepresentation, Unfair Competition, and Breach of Contract just to name a few.

Silicon Knights claims that instead of getting the support promised to them when they bought their license to the Unreal Engine, Epic Games was “sabotaging efforts by Silicon Knights and others to develop their own video games” by using “fees from those licenses to launch its own game to widespread commercial success” instead of developing the engine for their licensees.

Citing Too Human’s E3 ’06 demo as an example, Dyack states that the game’s negative feedback was a direct result of Epic’s sabotage to make their own titles look good. “Epic apparently was able to achieve a very useable version of the Engine for the Xbox 360 – the version that it kept to itself, for use only on its Gears of War game,” Dyack said. As a result, Too Human had poor game impressions while Gears of War went on to win “best of show”.

Silicon Knights has since decided to scrap the use of Epic Game’s Unreal Engine 3, and develop an independent engine on their own.

Mark Rein responded by stating that Epic Games is innocent and that “the claims against us (Epic Games) are unfounded and without merit, and we intend to fully defend against them.”

So does this mean another delay? Most probably. Comments from both companies seem to indicate that this case may stay in the courts for a while. And just when we thought things were going so well, things had to hit the fan. For more information on what the lawsuit entails, you can check out the read link below.