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849 chatty comments by "Kristian Joensen"

• Kristian Joensen: Posted May 22, 2012 10:57am PDT Well with their Activision deal they get to keep the IP. So that is a HUGE plus.
• Kristian Joensen: Posted May 22, 2012 8:54am PDT "The legal battle between Activision and Infinity Ward" As the article it self goes on to note, the legal battle isn't between Activision and...
• Kristian Joensen: Posted May 22, 2012 7:35am PDT It is a bit more complex than the article makes it sound. Activision and Bungie will do a technical assesment of the possibility of porting to the...
• Kristian Joensen: Posted May 14, 2012 4:01pm PDT Surely Acitivision made a deal with id to stop paying future royalties in exchange for a once of lump sum long ago. The same with Valve(They even...
• Kristian Joensen: Posted May 01, 2012 12:01pm PDT These aren't investments, you don't get any share of revenue or profits or any interest. Indeed Kickstarter doesn't allow that, these are strictly...
• Kristian Joensen: Posted Apr 27, 2012 11:57am PDT So in other words either the rumors were made up, it has been canned or they are working on a Timesplitters game not called "Timesplitters 4".
• Kristian Joensen: Posted Apr 25, 2012 3:21pm PDT What I don't get it, if money is no issue, why couldn't they just have contiued STALKER 2 development at GSC ? To me this sounds like some kind of...
• Kristian Joensen: Posted Apr 25, 2012 12:14pm PDT That developer diary seems to imply that this is what happened: "or that one of the founders of GSC like Sergei Grigorovich owns the IP and is not...
• Kristian Joensen: Posted Apr 25, 2012 11:39am PDT Well it doesn't make any sense that for sure and an individual person DOES own the trademarks.
• Kristian Joensen: Posted Apr 25, 2012 10:59am PDT The problem being that THQ didn't publish any of the subsequent games and they don't own any of the trademarks either. Strongly indicating they own...
• Kristian Joensen: Posted Apr 25, 2012 10:48am PDT Well one Sergiy Grygorovich owns the US trademarks related to the STALKER franchise.
• Kristian Joensen: Posted Apr 19, 2012 4:07pm PDT No, similarities like that are certainly something you could see as a result of pure coincidence. Also the plaintiff in such a case very much does...
• Kristian Joensen: Posted Apr 19, 2012 11:06am PDT The statement nowhere says that it is still in development, just that it is not canncelled. It could be put on hold, tranferred to another dev...
• Kristian Joensen: Posted Apr 18, 2012 10:22am PDT "It's not at all unlikely that the AC creator did get the idea from the book. " You have no reason to think that.
• Kristian Joensen: Posted Apr 16, 2012 1:36pm PDT Makes me wonder what proportion of rumors like this are started by people shorting stocks or the like.