Topic: Silicon Knights THREAD -> Update: Dyack responds to Kotaku ; Kotaku responds.

[MysterD]

NEWEST -> 5-20-2013:
Youtube -> Denis Dyack responds to the Kotaku article (approx. 34 minutes).
Kotaku -> Kotaku responds to Dyack's response.

OLDER:
Kotaku -> "What Went Wrong With Silicon Knights’ X-Men: Destiny?"

ORIGINAL:
Shacknews -> Silicon Knights ordered by court to DESTROY all of their Unreal Engine games.

Silicon Knights ordered to destroy Unreal Engine games
by Steve Watts, Nov 09, 2012 8:15am PST

Related Topics – Too Human, X-Men: Destiny, X-Men: Destiny, Epic Games, Legal, Silicon Knights, Unreal Engine 3

Silicon Knights has gotten another heaping helping of bad news: a court order to cease production of and destroy all games that use the Unreal Engine. The document, signed by district court judge James C. Dever III on Wednesday, requires that the company destroy all versions of game code that used Unreal Engine 3 by no later than December 10, 2012.

The order (via NeoGAF) explicitly names Too Human, X-Men Destiny, The Box/Ritualist, The Sandman, and Siren in the Maelstrom. It also requires Silicon Knights to cease producing or distributing those games, and to recall and destroy any unsold copies. The company is required to destroy any other games using the licensed engine, any versions of Unreal Engine 3 still in its possession, and any information obtained from licensee restricted portions of the Unreal Network. Finally, it owes Epic an additional $4.7 million, a combination of prejudgment interest ($2.3 million), attorney's fees ($2.09 million) and assorted costs ($278,000).

After Silicon Knights modified the Unreal Engine and called it the "Silicon Knights Engine," the company became embroiled in a lengthy legal battle with engine creator Epic Games -- which it subsequently lost to the tune of $4.45 million. The company has suffered two sets of layoffs, one before the legal loss and one after. At last count, only five employees remain, including studio head Denis Dyack.

[Quemaqua]

Holy shit dude. That's kind of awful. Admittedly, they haven't done anything worth playing in a good while, nor had I heard of most of those games... but a couple of them sounded kinda cool. And this basically kills them unless they have some magical trick up their sleeves.

[gpw11]

That's really bad and kind of strange, I guess the lesson is don't try to sue Epic?

[Xessive]

Damn.. The guys behind Silicon Knights were from my university too! (Brock U)

[Cobra951]

From what I was reading elsewhere, the evidence was really damning.  About all they did to hide the theft was change the name of some variables.

[MysterD]

I don't know if you guys read this expose on SK yet, so I'll link it...
It's a doosy.

Kotaku -> "What Went Wrong With Silicon Knights’ X-Men: Destiny?"

[MysterD]

Youtube -> Denis Dyack responds to the Kotaku article (approx. 34 minutes).
Kotaku -> Kotaku responds to Dyack's response.