I know this is old news (November 9th.) but I've recently heard of this...
Silicon Knights has been ordered by a US court to destroy all games and code it created with Unreal Engine 3, following its lawsuit with Epic Games.
With the lawsuit already decided in Epic's favour, a new court document today ordered Silicon Knights to recall all unsold copies of
Too Human and
X-Men Destiny and have them destroyed.
The company must also destroy all original code for the games, along with in-development titles
The Box/Ritualyst,
The Sandman and
Siren in the Maelstrom.
The court found that Silicon Knights had "repeatedly and deliberately copied significant portions of Epic Games' code containing trade secrets... and used it to create a competing product, Silicon Knights' own game engine".
As a result, Silicon Knights has been ordered to remove all traces of Unreal Engine code from its own engine, and destroy all games and code it had created using that engine.
The court also increased the fine Silicon Knights must pay to Epic from $4.5 million to over $9 million.
Last year, the company
suffered massive layoffs, and has since been operating with a reduced staff of 25 employees.
Earlier this year, studio head Dennis Dyack teased that it might be working on an
Eternal Darkness sequel. Either development on the game has not started or it is using a different game engine, because it is not mentioned in the court order.
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/gaming/news/a437160/silicon-knights-forced-to-destroy-games-code-in-epic-lawsuit.html
