Nintendo sues Imagine Media
posted in Video Game News by dhalamar on Jan 19th, 2001The big N is sueing Imagine Media. Here's an excerpt from the site Daily Radar:
It seems to us that Nintendo has filed this lawsuit in an effort to bully us into ceasing coverage of its properties in ways that it does not like (unofficial strategy guides, for instance). We refuse to be bullied -- both for our sake, and for the sake of our readers. A company that desires press coverage of its products, but only when it is pleased by that coverage, should not be allowed to litigate its way to happiness. To let Nintendo bully us by continuing to write about Nintendo games on Nintendo's terms would mean that you, the reader, would receive compromised coverage (i.e. "Here's the news about Nintendo that won't get us sued"), and that we, the game critics, end up pulling our punches, watching our backs and fearing lawsuits from a company that, essentially, we were spending our days praising and advocating.
Read the full story right here at the Daily Radar.