In March, it was announced that Infinity Ward was suing Activision over royalty payments owed to its ex-employees, after racking in over 1 Billion dollars since the Modern Warfare series was released. Now, it has been announced that the former exployees have filed suit against Activision under the IWEG (Infinity Ward Employee Group). The employees are claiming that Activision has breached their contracts.

The IWEG’s attorney Bruce Issacs exclaimed:

Activision has witheld most of the money to force many of my people to stay, some against their will, so that they would finish the delivery of Modern Warfare 3. Activision has no right to withhold their money — our money.

The 38 former Infinity Ward employee’s are hoping to extract $75 million and $125 million in damages out of the case. Although, Activision stated before that bonus money is only for those who decide to stay with Infinity Ward. Only time will tell the fate for the IWEG.

As if that didn’t put enough stress on Activision, it was confirmed on April 23 Mike Griffith, CEO and president of Activision Publishing, resigned. Griffith’s shocking resignation came from their failing relations with Infinity Ward.

Although, he will still have a primary role in board and internal strategy meetings for Activision Blizzard, as he continue’s his reign as vice chairmen.

Related: IW Sues Activision
Sources: 1up and mcvuk

FX has just announced via their website that they will be declining to use their autoberth. Instead, the team will attend their national qualifier and qualify the old-fashioned way. The decision was made when it was learned that numerous FX sponsors would be organizing the event. The FX website had this to say:

A week ago we informed You that Frag eXecutors’ Counter-Strike squad was invited for the Electronic Sports World Cup grand finals to defend their title from 2008: [ Frag eXecutors with an autoberth for ESWC 2010! ]. In the meantime it turned out that while having an invitation “the Golden Five” couldn’t take part in one of the most important Polish esports events of the year – ESWC Poland. It came our after a consutation with both main organiser – Games Solutions – and Beholder, the company which from this year is responsible for Polish qualifier. It confronted our team with a serious dilemma.

Eventually the Frag eXecutors’ board decided to turn down the direct invitation and instead play in the national qualifier. – We are a Polish team and we have to appear on the most important domestic tournaments – CS team’s manager Adrian “Ziggy” Witkowski explains. – We feel obliged to take part in them for our fans, the media and also teams’ sponsors.

Our original intention was to play in the national qualifier and keeping the spot in Paris finals. At first the organisers ensured us that our start is possible and does not mean losing the main tournament’s autoberth. We wanted to transfer the slot to another Polish team – or give away our prize trip. Unfortunately, the rules of Polish national qualifier and further decision change from the global organisers explictitly excluded us from playing in the qualifier and therefore forced us to make a choice between taking part in ESWC Poland and keeping the autoberth.

The finals will take place from 4th to 6th June in Warsaw – the venue wasn’t announced yet. They will be preceded with just beginning online qualifying in which, aside from Frag eXecutors, 120 (!) other teams will take part – including the female squads. That’s because the Polish organisers decided against making a separate qualifier for them.

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Arbalet Europe is set to take place on May 14-16th at the Inferno Online LAN Center in Stockholm, Sweden. 14 teams have been confirmed for the event with two more teams still set to be announced.

It has also been confirmed that there will be no All-Star Tournament, however the prize money put aside for that will be added to the total prize pot, increasing it to $37,000.

The official team list is as follows:

Evil Geniuses
fnatic
MYM
SK Gaming
H2k Gaming
mTw
Ravens
PinG
mousesports
Alternate
WeMade FOX
Frag eXecutors
forZe
UNiTED
TBA
TBA

Prize Breakdown
1st – $15,000
2nd – $10,000
3rd – $6,000
4th – $3,000
5th-6th – $1,000
5th-6th – $1,000
7th-8th – $500
7th-8th – $500

Stay tuned to compLexityGaming.com for more coverage and updates regarding the event.

Recently on ExplicitGamer.com, ShadowOfTheStatue has posted an article about the corruption of the innocent by videos games according to “experts.” As with most of the “experts,” they believe that video games are the cause of violence and crime amongst teenagers and young adults. The article hits the nail on the head in the violence vs video games debate. Below is an excerpt from the article, however we recommend reading the full thing:

Just on the off chance that any anti-video game folk find their way to this article, here are a few home truths that you can consider next time you decide to campaign against a little bit of 18+ gaming.

1. Movies find their way into the hands of children as easy, if not more so, than video games. There are many movies and TV shows out there that are readily available for younger audiences at any time. These days, anything can be found online, and there are no age restrictions on who watches a movie on the internet. Violent movies are even shown on TV sometimes, again with no age restriction.

2. It’s a known fact that teenagers will look up to and attempt to copy their heroes and idols. These people are more often than not music, movie, or sports stars that are in the public eye every single day. Its no secret to anyone that many are also from gangs, on drugs, and are constantly seen falling out of nightclubs half-naked, unable to stand. Good example to be setting? I think not. It’s not very often that a kid idolizes a game character, and to be quite honest, if he does he’s not going to be breaking laws anytime soon.

3. Games tend to keep us OFF the streets. People who play games enough to have even the slightest chance of being corrupted don’t go out enough to cause any trouble. They’re usually safe and sound at home, concentrating on their K/D ratio or building a pretty level on Little Big Planet. If you believe that there is anyone out there who shoots someone on a game and gets to urge to go out and do it for real then you probably haven’t played many games. Don’t speculate on something you’ve never been a part of before. If somebody commits a terrible crime and it turns out that they were a fan of video games that does NOT mean that the game is responsible. Studies have shown that only children that have already been exposed to great levels of violence are affected by violent games. This means that even if a violent child plays games, his aggression was most likely brought on by something earlier in his or her life. Plus, if a child is even in the frame of mind that copying a game is a good idea then surely that says more about the environment they are living in, rather than the games they are playing.

4. Games are all age rated judging on how much violence, sexual content, swearing or other adultery is featured within it. The same can be said about any other piece of media. Consoles also have parent locks, to prevent their kids playing adult games without their parents knowledge or consent. It can be argued that some shops will sell underage people things that they shouldn’t, but surely the blame then lies with the company or shop keeper who sold it? The same can be said about parents who buy their kids adult rated games. If you think they will corrupt your child, DON’T BUY THEM IT.

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