GameDaily BIZ
reports that Silicon Knights is suing Epic Games over "inadequacies of the
Unreal Engine 3 code it provides to its licensees." They have quotes from
Silicon Knights president Denis Dyack and Games' Vice President Mark Rein. First
was a preemptive message from Epic's Rein:
This morning we were served
with a lawsuit by Silicon Knights. We believe the claims against us are
unfounded and without merit and we intend to fully defend against them. We'd
love to tell you more about it but unfortunately our lawyers want us to save our
comments for the courthouse so we're going to do our best to comply with their
wishes. In that vein we'd appreciate if our friends in the industry and media
would refrain from asking us about the suit because we're only going to say 'no
comment.' We just wanted to share the news directly before the rumor mill starts
churning.
Prompting a prequel response from Dyack:
We stand behind
everything in our complaint and believe it is highly unfortunate that Epic
forced us into this situation. We would rather spend our time focusing on making
great games, but as stated in our complaint, Epic simply refuses to acknowledge
the inadequacies of the Unreal Engine 3 code it provides to its licensees, and
refuses to accept the fact that its code has caused serious damage not only to
Silicon Knights, but a number of other developers in the industry. We look
forward to successful resolution of our claims in this court proceeding.