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Left Behind Games Gets Apocalyptic with Bloggers


Submitted by thankeeka on October 5, 2007 - 12:24pm. General News

Could you imagine if more games issued cease and desist complaints against reviewers and threatened legal action if not? I don't think I'd have nearly the money to pay for my court costs. Apparently the creators of the Left Behind games don't like their games getting trashed by blogs, and are claiming they are misrepresenting their product.

From the article:

Numerous reports have surfaced on the web over the last few days regarding legal threats made against blog sites by Left Behind Games, publishers of a controversial real-time strategy title based upon the mega-selling Christian book series.

Gameology writes:

…If you’ve been following this blog for a while, you’ve probably seen that we’ve posted some rather critical remarks on the game Left Behind: Eternal Forces… we’re apparently on [CEO] Troy Lyndon’s radar… On Monday, they escalated their response by sending me a nastygram threatening me with legal action unless I remove “false and misleading” comments from this website.

…The goal of this letter is apparently to intimidate me… On free-speech grounds, then, I feel obligated to stand by my comments and not be intimidated by a frivolous threat intended to chill legitimate criticism.

Read the full article over at gamepolitics.com


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