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An October Release for Brutal Legend

By Chris Bennett, Tudor Carsten, Michael R. Coburn, Sarah Dale-Harris, Pablo Guzman, Danielle (Dani) Lemon, Chris Metcalfe and David Spratley

The game Brutal Legend featuring Jack Black as a heavy metal roadie fighting evil in a mythical world will be released in October 2009 now that a settlement has been reached in the litigation between Activision Entertainment Inc. and Double Fine Productions. Activision claimed it had not surrendered its rights to the game and was suing Double Fine in order to prevent Brutal Legend from being released. As for Double Fine, it claimed that Activision wanted to avoid competition by trying to kill the release of the game.

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Full post as published by Video Game Law Blog on August 14, 2009 (boomark / email).