I read a few days ago about the recent victory in British courts of Future Publishing (Edge gaming magazine) against Edge Games (Tim Langdell), finding him guilty of breach of contract and misrepresenting the magazine as having been created by and being affiliated with him. I then read up on some details of the Edge saga that I hadn't seen before and thought I'd share some wonderful Amazon.com user reviews regarding a "product" "published" by Edge Games, the PC title Racers:
This review hilariously stuffs a bunch of Langdell's (former) registered trademarks, R-symbols and all, into a propaganda-style parody.
This review is also very positive, but unfortunately not in a sarcastic sense; it's most likely actually written by Langdell himself.
This review is another well-done parody, more transparently a parody than the first. Gotta love sticking a registered trademark symbol into the middle of a word. ;P
Unfortunately, it wasn't all fun stuff I came across. I had thought that Langdell's edge-hunting had skipped NIS America's 2009 PS3 RPG Cross Edge, but it seems that in July last year, NIS America removed the Cross Edge website and renamed their forum's Cross Edge subforum to "Cross E... that is no longer," with the subtitle "The official former Cross 'something' Discussion Forum." Simultaneously, Edge Games' website claimed Cross Edge as "published worldwide by NIS under license from Edge Games." The disturbing thing is that this is still the current status, even after both EA's and Future's victories against Langdell. The only change that came after EA's win, I believe, is that the Cross Edge DLC returned to the PS Store. But why no changes to NISA's site and Edge Games' site, when Langdell has lost all his (American, at least) "Edge" marks?
Anyway, I was mostly posting this for the developers to see. Tim Langdell is probably even more reviled in the video game industry than Jack Thompson. If the two of them ever had a child, you'd wonder which one's chest the offspring would burst forth from.