I didn’t see this coming, but I’m proud and happy that it happened. For those of you who’ve been following the ongoing saga of Tim Langdell, the man whose single claim to fame is that he once owned the word “edge,” you’ll see this as the end of the line. Which is sort of like an edge itself. After recently losing all U.S. rights to his trademark on the word “edge,” and caught falsifying evidence …
Here’s a name we haven’t heard in a while: Tim Langdell, owner of the word “edge,” is in the news again. GamesIndustry reports that a US district court has tossed out Langdell’s injuction against publisher EA, and suggested that the perennial trademark-lawsuiter may face criminal charges for “earlier actions.” In legalese, and in this case, “earlier actions” translates into “falsifying evidence.” Langdell’s efforts against EA game Mirror’s Edge and other EA titles with the word …
In a terse press release, the International Game Developers Association announced that Dr. Tim Langdell of Edge Games has voluntarily resigned his position on the IGDA board. As such, the recently announced special membership meeting to vote on Langdell’s possible ouster will no longer take place. Regardless of your position on the recent furor over Dr. Langdell’s and his company’s behavior, it is interesting that Langdell’s resignation comes at a time when public opinion was …
Edge Games has released a public statement regarding the Edge trademark infringement fiasco, and though it’s unpleasantly formatted there is a lot of interesting reading there. In the meantime, the IGDA has finally acted, as a corps of disillusioned members (using somewhat less than unsleazy means) finally got enough signatures from members to force a special meeting, the purpose of which is to discuss the removal of Tim Langdell from the IGDA Board of Directors. …
Well, this is a difficult one for me to write, if only because if I don’t choose my words carefully I could wind up on the receiving end of a very nasty email from a person who theoretically has the authority to destroy a significant portion of my career. At the same time, though, it bears reporting, and this is one of those rare instances where writing with pure journalistic impartiality would actually come off …