Microsoft Sued Again, Found Eating Entire German Chocolate Cake
Well, it’s January, which means two things: An absolute digital wasteland devoid of even the meanest tumbleweeds of gaming news, and broken New Year’s resolutions scattered like shattered glass across the mesa.
Take Microsoft, which lasted a meager 48 hours on its desperate promise to avoid both unwanted litigation and binging on simple sugars in this, the year of somebody’s lord, 2007. Now, because Micrsoft saw what I was doing in that supply closet, I can’t tell you too much about the German Chocolate cake, save that it was almost entirely gone by the time I came to.
It’s been a rough morning.
The legal suit, however, comes to Microsoft courtesy of French mobile developer In-Fusio, which seeks damages following an alleged wrongful contract termination – of a development deal for a mobile version of Halo.
Relatively small beans, the $2mil contract might have led to a series of mobile Halo games, as well as having given In-Fusio the right to create Halo: Mobile Portal, a service that marries cellphones to Xbox Live in some fashion for checking stats, getting ringtones, wallpapers, etc.
In-Fusio was to pay Microsoft four $500,000 installments over two years for both the Halo rights and Microsoft’s guidance, feedback, and of course final approval in the development cycles. In-Fusio alleges that after the first payment, Microsoft denied approval while withholding adequate feedback to improve or continue the project – but also demanded a second payment.
In-Fusio managed to secure an agreement to delay its second payment until after Microsoft approved a game concept, which the suit alleges Microsoft has yet to do. Microsoft accused In-Fusio of breaching the contract and threatened to terminate the agreement, hence In-Fusio’s suit and the shame spiral that led to that fateful German Chocolate cake in that fateful supply closet.
Read more about the legal junk if it’s up your alley. It ain’t up mine. (What is? Ask the supply closet.)
Microsoft Sued By In-Fusio Over Mobile Halo [Gamasutra]
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Posted to Video Games on 2 January 2007
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So….. Halo on a mobile.
I wonder whether it would be a terrible side-scroller, or a terrible pseudo-first-person RPG.