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."

Comments

Re:How they managed to hide the sabotage

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

Wrong. The empty case is much less annoying!

and slightly more functional

Re:How they managed to hide the sabotage

[Locke2005]

But us computer professionals know there is a very big difference between an empty case and a computer running Vista: the empty case is far more secure!

Re:How they managed to hide the sabotage

[antifoidulus]

See, Linux is an OS for grown ups, not a toy like Windows. When grown ups need to do big boy work they use an OS that doesn't get hacked constantly, that is stable, that doesn't have to phone home for permission to operate, that comes out of the box with real tools like NFS and SSH, that doesn't have the worlds worst CLI, that has a secure, stable kernel. But yeah, you just keep on playing with your little toy and pretend it's a big boy OS.