When you’re building something like The Beatles: Rock Band, the development cycle isn’t entirely on the coding end. A team of lawyers for the Beatles worked for six months on the likenesses, names and trademarks that went into the game.
A St. Louis modder/reseller brazen enough to advertise early copies of Gears of War 2 out in the open on Craigslist just got his arse handed to him in court. Technically, it’s a settlement, but looking at the terms, this guy sued for peace with an unconditional surrender to Epic…