Capcom Wins Dead Rising Lawsuit, Sony Looses $18 Million, Activision Dodges

I figured I would wrap up all the legal related stories on one tight neat post. Capcom recently won their case against the Producer of George A. Romero’s Dawn of the Dead who sued Capcom claiming that Dead Rising ripped the Dawn of the Dead film. I guess this is likely to mean that we will see the rumored Dead Rising 2 in the future at some point.

Sony recently lost a patent lawsuit to Agere Systems over “wireless local area network apparatus” technology in PSP handhelds. Sony will have to cough up $18.5 million.

Activision dodged a costly bullet by changing the box art of their new Baja game. Activision was being sued by THQ because of striking similarities in the box arts of their Baja games…. read more…