Activision Blizzard was mum Monday after Genius Products and Numa...
Activision Blizzard was mum Monday after Genius Products and Numark Industries joint venture Scratch DJ Game said a California Superior Court judge granted a preliminary injunction in Scratch’s suit against Activision Publishing, developer 7 Studios, and ex-7 Studios owner…
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Lewis Peterson. The judge already issued a temporary restraining order in favor of Scratch (CED April 22 p5) and ordered 7 Studios and Activision to hand over all work product associated with the coming videogame Scratch -- The Ultimate DJ game, including all source code and all of the developer’s pre-existing tool and technology, including the source code to 7 Studio’s game engine, Scratch said. Developer 7 Studios and its new parent company, Activision Blizzard, are continued to be “walled off” from disclosing any aspect of the Scratch game or technology with each other or with any third party, Scratch said. Activision Blizzard didn’t respond to a request for comment by our deadline. “We will continue to vigorously pursue our damages case against Activision, 7 Studios and Peterson resulting from their actions to delay and take over the Scratch game,” said Jack O'Donnell, manager of Scratch and CEO of Numark. “We hope that this clear victory ends the delay tactics employed by the defendants to date to stop our game from being completed and brought to market. With the injunction order, we will also now be able to move forward to complete and launch our much anticipated Scratch game,” he said. Scratch DJ Game had accused Activision Publishing of “intentional interference with contractual relationship,” unfair competition and breach of contract, among other things, in its suit over the game, which Scratch had tapped 7 Studios to develop before the developer was bought by Activision Blizzard (CED April 16 p2).