In 2000, we signed a contract with Xtreme Games to publish the RH Games Bundle.
Unfortunately, something unexpected happened...
Hasbro Interactive acquired the rights of the classic Atari games and has filed lawsuits against companies that were shipping games that had some resemblance to the classic Atari games. This action of Hasbro generated outrage in the game development community as can be seen in this article of Diana Gruber.
The game development community started a Green Ribbon Campaign as a form of protest against this lawsuit of Hasbro. The participants of the Green Ribbon Campaign used the image below on their homepages:
Xtreme Games was one of the companies mentioned in the lawsuit of Hasbro. As Xtreme Games was a small company, it decided to suspend new game publishing until solve this problem with Hasbro.
While we waited for the unfolding of this story, we continue to work on the Game Design of other projects, simply because we loved doing it.
Unfortunately, something unexpected happened...
Hasbro Interactive acquired the rights of the classic Atari games and has filed lawsuits against companies that were shipping games that had some resemblance to the classic Atari games. This action of Hasbro generated outrage in the game development community as can be seen in this article of Diana Gruber.
The game development community started a Green Ribbon Campaign as a form of protest against this lawsuit of Hasbro. The participants of the Green Ribbon Campaign used the image below on their homepages:
Xtreme Games was one of the companies mentioned in the lawsuit of Hasbro. As Xtreme Games was a small company, it decided to suspend new game publishing until solve this problem with Hasbro.
While we waited for the unfolding of this story, we continue to work on the Game Design of other projects, simply because we loved doing it.
