Epic Games Wins Lawsuit With Silicon Knights [UPDATED]

" In addition to simply "winning" the lawsuit, Epic Games has been awarded damages totaling $4.45 million."

Well, that's the end of Silicon Knights, then.

Hot scoops! But for real, interesting stuff...

Wait a minute, quite the disparity in the lunch prices there... I think we have another E3 mystery! Why were they able to get lunch for a mere $99 one day, but the price increased to $150 only one day later?

I smell funny business!

Hey Epic, can you steal the rights for Eternal Darkness away from Silcon Knights when they can't pay the money? A new game for that series by you guys would be nice.

RIP Silicon Knights

Oh yeah, I completely forgot about this.

Considering all the provincial government funding Silicon Knights recently lost, this is just another big financial blow. I have to wonder how long the studio will last.

Well, that's the end of Denis Dyack. For a brief period he looked like a video game luminary, and then he got exposed as a blowhard and a fantastic whiner.

Only tipped $10 on a $142 bill?!  What an asshole.

Now THAT'S investigative journalism. Jury's lunches!!!

Why the fuck was one meal $50 more than the other? How'd that happen all of a sudden?

These are the real questions.

They got wasted on those meals

Now I'll never see Too Human 2 T_T

Hot scoops

having had to order food for large groups of people I can tell you that $100 goes nowhere near as far as you think it would.

@mmgreenmms said:

Only tipped $10 on a $142 bill?! What an asshole.

That's like a normal tip for a takeout order. It's not like the jury went out to eat in the actual restaurant.

@mmgreenmms said:

Only tipped $10 on a $142 bill?! What an asshole.

That's like a normal tip for a takeout order. It's not like the jury went out to eat in the actual restaurant.

Epic should show a little compassion and not demand that they be payed

Silicon Knights has to pay $4.45 million... Ouch! Do they even have that kind of money? If they don't what does this mean for the studio?

Thanks to @MrKlorox and @Brackynews for the link!

Also, OUCH. That's a hefty sum SK has to pay out. Don't sue unless you know you're going to win, kids.

@mmgreenmms said:

Only tipped $10 on a $142 bill?! What an asshole.

Why would you tip on take away? It's likely that was a mandatory gratuity charge and not the gopher's token tip.

@Robopengy said:

Epic should show a little compassion and not demand that they be payed

World don't work like that.

Man, that's some lunch.

I'm glad I was sitting down when I was hit with these Hot Scoopz about lunch.

With Silicon Knights pretty much done for, maybe they will sell the Too Human IP to Microsoft for cheap? Or EA? Or the Canadian government? Anyone? Bueller?

I'd honestly like to see the "Trilogy" finished by some other guys whose leader hasn't crawled up his own ass. I say that as someone who loved Eternal Darkness and got enjoyment out of the first Too Human when it finally came out. But Dyack, great as he once was, seems to be turning into the Axl Rose of game design. Paranoid, combative, inflexible, out-of-touch. It's a bummer, he was once awesome.

@Delta_Ass said:

@Bartz said:

@mmgreenmms said:

Only tipped $10 on a $142 bill?! What an asshole.

That's like a normal tip for a takeout order. It's not like the jury went out to eat in the actual restaurant.

You're supposed to tip for takeout?

I always do but mostly because I dont want change so I just round it up to the nearest five or ten dollar bill.

Two Human is never going to be made, is it?

LUNCH MONEY SCOOPS, SAY WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT?!

So Silicon Knights was mad because they needed to have Epic hold their hand through development?

*Clears throat*

U MAD BRO!?

You sad, SK.

This lawsuit should have ended years ago as SK argument against Epic wasn't anything worthy enough to see a court case let alone win one. Did SK even ask for technical support from Epic when they were experiencing problems with the engine as I would be on Epic's back constantly about it like any sensible consumer who buys a faulty electronic and calls the manufacturers support line.

Two Human is never going to be made, is it?

Silicon Knights MUST be dead now, right?

Lunch Watch with Patrick Klepek.

So he SK dudes sued Epic for their shitty engine? Amazing.

@EveretteScott: I know I know, but that's got to be like pocket change to them. It's like taking a homeless person's coin cup.

$251.24 on lunch? That's crazy talk. This is the problem with the American judicial system. As a taxpayer (in another state) I am outraged.

@Robopengy said:

Epic should show a little compassion and not demand that they be payed

^jes

Also, the lunch is way more interesting than the actual case.

Too bad.

We all know what really happened here Mark Rein bought off the judge with a golden Retro Lancer skin for gears 3 and a perma x2 XP bonus. Scandalous I say!

This article has answered all my burning questions about juror lunches.

I dunno... I haven't been a party to all th evidence presented, so I can't say for sure one way or the other. They probably went off the rails a bit by saying Epic did it intentionally as opposed to just not having the available resources to back up their licensing deals.

id famously had the same problem when it licensed out the Doom 3 engine. It's probably a valid concern from SIlicon Knights, just likely not intentional. Though again... That's based entirely on conjecture as I'd need to actually read the cases both sides presented.

(the amount of winnings will likely be appealed at a later date though...)

But what did they eat???? That's the real question here.

@PenguinDust: Depends on how many jurors there were, which is the call of the judge. Civil cases usually have 6. At $142.01 for 6 jurors, its about $23 per juror. Not sure how much the average lunch costs in North Carolina, but that sounds pretty average considering food+drink+tax+delivery.

Also a $10 tip for a delivery for at least six lunches is way too low.

The way Silicon Knights' luck (or maybe just their decision-making quality) is going over the last half-decade or so makes it more and more likely that I'll never get to find out about that fifth ancient. I have held out hope for so long. Maybe it's finally time to let it go.

Where I live, in California, the plantiff is responsible for jury costs in a civil case. So Silicon Knights might be on the hook for those lunches.

Silicon Knights apparently lost this case mostly because before embarking on their own engine they modified the Unreal Engine code to try and get that working for themselves but they had no legal right to modify the source code, so in revealing their evidence they shot themselves in the foot.

THIS IS ONE HOT SCOOP

Now that this shit is all over, release the 4 player patch for Too Human and the DLC before you go bankrupt and lay everyone off Silicon Knights

@PenguinDust said:

$251.24 on lunch? That's crazy talk. This is the problem with the American judicial system. As a taxpayer (in another state) I am outraged.

You're taking it out of context. 251.24 for two days worth of lunches and for the whole jury (I don't know the size).

Too Human is the worst game I have completed this generation.

2 days of lunch for a large group of people? That's a reasonable amount if they got them anything better than dollar menu fast food. I don't see how this is news at all.