The creators of Star Control have settled their lawsuit against the developer who made Star Control: Origins, a spiritual successor to the 1990 adventure game. And according to a new blog post by the Star Control devs, the “truly amicable settlement” involves exchanging homemade honey with homemade mead.
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PC stores Steam and GOG took down the video game Star Control: Origins on December 31 following DMCA takedown…
Developers Paul Reiche and Fred Ford today filed a counterclaim against Stardock in U.S. District Court in Oakland claiming to be the creators and sole copyright owners for Star Control I and II. This was in response to Stardock’s December lawsuit alleging the opposite. Ars Technica has a great write-up of the topic.
The space fighter series Star Control is at the center of a new dispute over who owns the franchise, and what that…
Recently, the rights to several classic game franchises, including Master of Orion, Total Annihilation, and Star Control, were auctioned off following Atari's filing for bankruptcy earlier this year. You can see a list of the franchises involved, and whom they ended up with, below.
It is no secret that Stardock are big fans of Star Control - Galactic Civilizations certainly owes something to Star…
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