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Court Returns Stolen Stargate MMO To Founder
An anonymous reader writes "A Maricopa County Superior Court judge has ended a bitter dispute over control of a Mesa video game company's assets, effectively giving the online combat game Stargate Resistance and the long-delayed MMORPG Stargate Worlds back to Cheyenne Mountain Entertainment. Fresh Start tried to remove all of Cheyenne Mountain's assets from its offices on Feb. 24, but was prevented from doing so when the police arrived. Networking cords had been cut and left to hang loose, and PC cases were empty shells that had been gutted of components such as hard drives. But time may finally have run out for Worlds, Cheyenne Mountain's signature project: The ruling comes as MGM Studios has apparently terminated the license it granted in 2006 for the Arizona company to produce video games based on the Stargate movies and TV shows."
Why, did his cat die?
They simply claimed that the gutted computers had all been upgraded to Vista. To the casual observer there is very little difference between an empty case and a computer running Vista.
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At first I thought the court had returned a stolen Stargate, not a stolen Stargate *MMO*. Which would have been much bigger news, that's for sure.
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Why, did his cat die?
Yes. Didn't you read the summary: "Networking cords had been cut and left to hang...".
All that cat5... sad, really.
When our name is on the back of your car, we're behind you all the way!
Breaking in, stealing components, gutting computers. Who's the CEO over? Joe Arpaio's little brother?
God invented whiskey so the Irish would not rule the world.
Eli? Yes, he did play a lot of that MMO.
If it rhymes it must be true.
They won a court decision and got something from someone else. Is there a limit on the number of characters in their keyboard? Is it too much trouble to even research the story to find out what is going on? It is like watching the last 5 minutes of "Iron Man" and going WTF? Who is the good guy, Stark because he won, or because he blows up stuff?
This is why I hate to read the article, I am hoping some /. poster is going to do the work of posting the back history. The thing the "journalist" did not do.
Very few other sci-fi themes contained the qualities contained within Raumpatrouille, Star Trek, Star Wars, Babylon5, Firefly and others,
fixed that for you
We suffer more in our imagination than in reality. - Seneca
Then whatever secret the government is hiding behind Duke Nukem Forever must be truly terrifying.
Dr. Who didn't have out-and-out sex, but name one of his assistants that wasn't "hot". To juxtapose, try to imagine Mrs. Marple being the Dr.'s sidekick.
I can think of one - but then again I guess it's what "floats your boat".