Remember that little disagreement Activision and Electronic Arts had over the transition of former Infinity Ward honchos Jason West and Vince Zampella and potential contract-interference? Activision claimed that Electronic Arts contributed to the insubordinate conduct which ended with West and Zampella breaching their contracts. Electronic Arts said otherwise. And we watched in fascination as they publicly beat on each other because those are the kind of jackals we are.
It seems that at least one judge in the Los Angeles Superior Court thinks Activision has a case here. In court yesterday, motions for summary dismissal of the case from Electronic Arts, Zampella and West were denied. There is currently a trial date set for May 7th, 2012 where a jury will hear the arguments.
California Superior Court Finds ... [Yahoo!]
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5:47 PM on 12.22.2011 | 
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That being said, I haven't completely lost respect for either of these companies over the years, as many, *cough *cough JIM STERLING *cough, have seem to, but I do think that the games they have released in the last 5 years, with some great exceptions (Dead Space, Mirror's Edge, Starcraft 2...), have generally suffered from lack of creativity and a shifting mindset in terms of game production and marketing.
I couldn't help but lol
Glad to know EA is gonna get meat tossed in the bucket reel gud.
All IW wanted to do was work on something other than Modern Warfare for once, and these two were the only ones with enough clout to make it happen.
All Activision did was take the bull by the horns and basically cut off the horns so that the rest would shut up and get back to work (or else).