SCi
controversy continues as MGE restates theft allegation has the latest on the
confusing ongoing back-and-forth between MGE Software and SCI
(
story) over the source code and development rights to Joint Task
Force and Battlestation: Midway:
MGE Software believes that source code,
servers and software were illegally taken from Mithis' offices, and game
projects including Joint Task Force, Battlestation: Midway and Nexus: The
Juniper Incident were unlawfully deleted from the company's computers.
The statement alleges that former Mithis employees conspired to remove the
software and hand it over to SCi, despite a development agreement signed in 2003
which specified that MGE remain the developer and sole owner of the source code.
"The question of questions that still remains unanswered by SCi - how and when
did it get hold of the source code, which it admits that it has, and was this
done in a legal manner?" MGE Software's statement reads.
"MGE will continue to take every possible measure according to the laws in order
to protect its rights," the company concluded.
Both SCi and HD Publishing (owner of Most Wanted Entertainment, now developing
Joint Task Force) have strenuously denied any wrongdoing, and neither company
appears to have been approached by the Hungarian authorities in relation to the
matter, adding further fuel to the mystery surrounding numerous titles formerly
being developed by Mithis.