Silicon Knights sues Epic over UE3
Friday 20th July 2007, 01:01:00 AM, written by Tim
Silicon Knights, developer of the upcoming Xbox 360 game Too Human, has filed suit against Epic Games over alleged flaws in Unreal Engine 3.0. Gamasutra has a list of the allegations from the legal filings, so we'll just summarize them quickly:
- Epic was supposed to deliver a developer-ready version of UE3 by March 2006. Instead, it was delivered in November 2006.
- Too Human's disastrous showing at E3 2006 was not using UE3. Instead, it was using an engine developed in-house.
- Epic failed to release updates to the engine, claiming that they were specific to Gears of War or Unreal Tournament 3 and therefore not bound by the license agreement between SK and Epic.
- Too Human is now using an engine developed in-house. At the moment, it seems that this uses parts of UE3, although the filing claims that all of Epic's code will be removed by the time the game is finished.
- SK has claimed that they are not the only licensees to have been affected, which has been corroborated in part by other developers.
- SK still has no version of UE3 for the PlayStation 3, which was supposed to have been delivered in February.
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