Section 8 tells the story of a war between two factions: the EDF, the established governmental order around these parts, and the Arm of Orion, the upstart military group with a bad attitude and everything to prove. As the story begins, the 'Arm' has been silently subjugating planets on the outskirts of galactic civilization. Apparently that makes them pretty confident and soon they launch a surprise attack on the EDF. The 'Arm' attacks an outer rim planet and Section 8, a group of elite armored infantry, is called in and starts hurtling them through the upper atmosphere face first.
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That’s how developer TimeGate, which produced the Xbox Live Arcade first-person shooter Section 8, ended up owing publisher SouthPeak Interactive $7.3 million in damages, as originally reported by Polygon. This comes after the latest court appeal in the long-running case went in favor of SouthPeak.
Awww, this is horrible. This is going to destroy them. Southpeak, this is not cool. You could of just told them to pay your lawyer fees and then just let them be. I know what company I will be boycotting in the future.
"I" will be boycotting in the future?
It's not a boycott if it's only one person.
No offense, but I think people on the gaming scene just use words they don't know :O
No idea why I'm getting (at the moment of this edit, only one...) disagrees...
It's true.
Hey I just googled for the official meaning of boycott including dictionary. Com, Wikipedia amongst others, but it doesnt state anywhere that there needs to be a headcount requirement.
From my reading, it seems like one or a party can boycott whatever they want.
Idk but if there's anything else to it, plz enlighten us.
Both sides are idiots here. TimeGate isn't innocent, they are the ones that originally opened the lawsuit. Their publisher just said "yeah? Well take this" and won.
Honestly I'm normally on the developers side, but it was stupid to do that and greedy. Just say "we are done" and walk away, find someone else to publish. If they want the crappy Section 8 license, let them have it.
Whenever someone says both sides are wrong, it means they don't have the balls to be fair or they just don't know the facts.
To be fair to what? The developer was stupid for opening the lawsuit, and the publisher is stupid for taking it too far.
I would say it takes a lot more balls to say both sides are morons instead of picking a side.
The law is always on the side of the guys with more money.
In this case, the publisher paid more so now the developers have to give up the franchise and go bankrupt. Justice isn't served.
First, take the PS3 tag out as there is no confirmation on that version yet only the PC and 360 versions. It may not of been truly cancelled but it hasn't been confirmed either.
This game looks extremely nice and I like the concept of orbital drops wherever you want as it brings a strategic aspect into respawning. I look forward to upcoming news for this game.
The HUD looks terrible, first thing I would do as dev working on ANOTHER fps would be to do something interesting with the HUD, I mean besides your weapons and the enemies on the screen your HUD is gonna be in your face for the entire game and to not take advantage of such a simple and obvious avenue for possibly impressing the player is pathetic.
It's okay though, lots of developers make this mistake.
Tell me it wouldn't be cool to have the option to turn it on or off in-game with the press of a button and have a little screen flip down in front of one eye and light up real quick with the HUD elements displayed. Map should be a hologrphic display on the wrist that when a button is pressed and held the player automatically looks down at his wrist to see the map.