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Entertainment & Sports

Jan. 20, 2011

EA Added to Activision Lawsuit

The video game industry's two biggest players are set to battle in court now that a judge on has approved Activision Blizzard's motion to add rival publisher Electronic Arts as a defendant to a lawsuit involving two developers who defected to EA last year.


By Jean-Luc Renault


Daily Journal Staff Writer


The video game industry's two biggest players are set to battle in court now that a judge on has approved Activision Blizzard's motion to add rival publisher Electronic Arts as a defendant to a lawsuit involving two developers who defected to EA last year.


The developers sued Activision last March, claiming the publisher fired them to avoid paying royalties from the sale of the game "...

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