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Activision Sees Silver Lining, Grants License to King?s Quest Game

By pete_gallagher

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Phoenix Online Studios, which had received a cease-and-desist from Activision over a fan-made King's Quest game, has now been given the go-ahead by the publishing giant and will release the first episode of The Silver Lining on July 10.

At the end of June, the development team wrote that Activision reached out a few months earlier with 'a desire to revisit their decision.' After some negotiating the cease-and-desist was rescinded and Phoenix was granted a non-commercial license.

Ironically, Phoenix went through the exact same scenario when King's Quest was still under the control of Vivendi. That publisher too had issued a C&D on the project, only to cave to fan pressure later on and bestow a non-commercial license on the game.
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