“I finally got a hold of Global Star and they admitted they don’t have the rights to it,” Roathe told For the longest time, said Roathe, he couldn’t even get Take Two to acknowledge that they were selling the game. It’s this convoluted chain of licensing and acquisition that has made it so hard for IFD to get its own version onto store shelves, according to IFD’s co-founder, Lane Roathe. Take-Two acquired Gathering but let its Bugdom license lapse, according to Ideas From the Deep (IFD), which contends that Take Two has continued to sell copies of Bugdom under its Global Star label. Pangea doesn’t make games for Windows, so it later licensed the Windows publishing rights to Gathering of Developers, which commissioned a third-party developer to make the conversion. Rather than bringing a civil action against the larger publisher, has reported the situation to the FBI.īugdom was originally released for the Macintosh by Pangea Software in 1999. A case of art imitating life, perhaps: Much as Rollie McFly has to square off against King Thorax in Pangea Software’s game Bugdom, the PC conversion of Pangea Software’s game at the center of a simmering David and Goliath controversy.
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