Usually when Wizards of the Coast aims its legal cannons at something, said something is utterly annihilated. Not so in the case of WotC vs Cryptozoic, the developer of a digital collectible card game called Hex: Shards of Fate, which shared an uncomfortable number of similarities with WotC's own Magic CCG. After more than a year's worth of litigation, the two parties have finally come to an understanding.

Less than a week after Wizards of the Coast announced that it was suing Hex Entertainment and Cryptozoic Entertainment for cloning the company's popular card gameMagic: The Gathering, the two companies have come back with a statement in defence of their game Hex: Shards of Fate.

intellectual property" and is proceeding with a lawsuit against the developer, Cryptozoic. If you're wondering just how much Hex has in common with Magic: The Gathering, it might help to hear it from someone who's not just a fan, but a lawyer.

Disputes over intellectual property walk a fine line between meting out justice and delving headfirst into a ridiculous bramble of legalese. It's not clear which side Magic: The Gathering publisher Wizards of the Coast's lawsuit against the creators of Hex: The Shards of Fate will end up on. But trying to compare the two games, I can already tell that things are going to get tricky.