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Evony Drops Libel Suit Against Blogger

By pete_gallagher

A libel suit filed by Evony, LLC last year against a UK-based blogger has been dropped.

Evony is, of course, the company behind the game of the same name, the one which litters seemingly every last corner of the Internet with ads usually accompanied by ample female cleavage. Ex-Imagine and Codemaster marketer Bruce Everiss (pictured) has been taking the company to task on his blog for quite some time now, detailing some of the sketchy practices used by the game's creator.

Evony filed its lawsuit in Australia, a move that Everiss called 'libel tourism,' and dropped the case just two days into hearings, reports the Guardian. A Vice Development Director for Evony said in a statement that the case was dropped in deference to criticism from players of the game themselves. 'A lot of our players expressed opinions about the lawsuit, and we reacted to that,' said Benjamin Gifford.

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Full post as published by GamePolitics.com on March 31, 2010 (boomark / email).