Sunday, June 28th, 2009
Another week full of lawsuits . Poor, beleaguered company Midway came under fire once again, and this time it was from a very unlikely direction: the guy behind the Mortal Kombat movies sued Midway in order to "protect his IP rights", which is a better way of saying that he wants to keep milking the MK franchise for as long as possible. Square Enix also got served with a class-action lawsuit for "deceiving" Final Fantasy XI patrons regarding fees. Not everything was bad, though, as we go
Tags: Censorship, Class Action Lawsuit, Final Fantasy Xi, Guitar Gods, Ip Rights, Lawsuits, Mk Franchise, Mortal Kombat, Patrons, Square Enix, Teasers
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Monday, June 15th, 2009
As much as I love fighting games and their storylines, just about all of them run into one major problem: if the series goes on long enough, the writers will run out of ideas and just pull off the same story over and over again with slight variation. King of Fighters reached this point after their ’97 incarnation. Mortal Kombat got there in its third game, though they were original enough in their ideas that it didn’t get too stagnant until several games later. Street Fighter went on for a while
Tags: Family Values, Fighting Games, Incarnation, King Of Fighters, Love Games, Mishima, Mortal Kombat, Saga, Storylines, Street Fighter, Tekken 2, Third Game, Variation
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