Tim Langdell is trying to come back...

By blaming the Edge magazine and Future Publishing, apparently...

Sorry, the text's very long, so here's a summary by a commenter Jockie:

And, lo, not a single fuck was given to the crazy man who believes he owns the word "Edge".

It's funny, i've been hearing about this guy since back when my gaming news was still printed on dead trees. Back then he was a shadowy douche who was trying to ruin the Soul Series for me.

Now he's a visible douche◊ who is trying to ruin Mirrors Edge for me.

Somebody, like, burn a voodoo doll of him or something.

Who the hell is Tim Langdell.

No, seriously, who is he?

How can he make a comeback if he never did anything well in the first place?

person who think own word "edge". which make him sue pretty much everything that use word "edge"

But I own the word Edge! >:O

I'm off to write a story for the videogame adaptation of my fantasy stories. Bjorn Westlander and the Edge of Eternity is a good title!

I think he is just bitter about the divorce.

I should probably avoid this topic but the bile fascination is too tempting. What makes him think he owns the word "edge"?

He made a game years upon years ago called Edge and I think, trademarked it.

Although, I thought we exiled him. Damn, if that didn't work, then my plan for Kotick isn't going to be a success either.

edited 26th Jul '11 9:42:03 PM by hnd03

I clicked on this thread to learn who this guy actually is. While his name still isn't familiar, I can recall hearing about a guy, who claims ownership over the word "Edge". It's hard to forget something so asinine.

To give a bit more detail...

Tim was a "game developer" who I don't believe ever developed a game. Rather, his company (Edge games, I believe) was always "working on" a game that had Edge in it. What he did was sue any company that tried to sell a game with "Edge" in the title, claiming copyright infringement on his games. Usually his company also started developing a similar sounding game. He was bad enough with major developers, but he also aggressively targeted indie developers. Which made people wonder why he got a seat on a board... (I wish I could remember. Some sort of Independent Games Board)

Anyways, when EA releasted Mirror's Edge, he went after them, claiming he was also developing "Mirrors: A game by Edge." But, unfortunately for him, EA had lawyers. Good lawyers. Who hung him out to dry.

Not only was he countersued for a lot, but he was also forced to go to any developer who he sued before, and state that he has lost the copyright on the word "edge" in relation to games. Which meant that if they wanted to, they could sue him or demand compensation for the false copyright.

Probably missing a lot of details, but that's what I can remember.

He's lucky he never got hit with a massive punitive damages ruling by a trolling judge.

"And... 100 million. Problem, Langdell?"

So let me get this straight. This man is like those people that deliberately go out and get hit by taxis every other week and sue for money? Only he does the same thing with games.

Similar sort of thing happens with mockbusters. They troll through torrents and sue people who they find downloading their movie to make a profit.

But that's a punishment for stupidity, I approve of that.

If he ever manages to successfully sue someone who used the word "Edge" in the title, that's going to make a bad precedent. Then Edge Games is going to start developing and trademarking one letter names. All 26 of them.

He doesn't actually need to sue people, he can just threaten to sue them. There was this one game called Edge or something similar on the iPhone App Store. Neat game, but Langdell threatened to sue and Apple, rather than defend the poor guy, decided not to help, not even giving the guy his profits until the incident boiled over.

So the poor indie developer took it down to avoid a lawsuit.

Hang on, "Z" is already copyrighted. Don't tell me you haven't at least heard of that one (I think I even managed to get my hands on the demo, but I can't remember whether it was for the first one or the sequel).

edited 27th Jul '11 10:27:47 AM by NotSoBadassLongcoat

He's also why the Soul Calibur games are named that and not Soul Edge, despite the Soul Edge being the massively important MacGuffin. I can't really get over that. I wondered for so long when i was a kid why the game was called "Soul blade" over here and properly called "Soul Edge" overseas. the reason: Douchebags!

Wait, Apple left an indie developer out to dry? And EA bitterly defended Mirrors Edge? If i ever needed proof of EA's Heel–Face Turn that's it. I promise not to bitch about Madden anymore.

This is incredibly stupid. That's really all I can bring myself to say about it.

Also, Edge? Is this supposed to be some sort of Take That! at him?

The abuse of the word "Edge" makes this very likely. Also, there is this:

With that, I think we can be sure: Yes, it is a Take That against that guy.

edited 27th Jul '11 12:23:57 PM by Nyarly

Who's Tim Langdell?

edited 27th Jul '11 12:37:01 PM by RichReeders

Some lawsuit troll.