The Godfather: The Don's Edition News from N4G

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  EA in legal showdown with Dillinger, LLC

  Publisher files suit after purported rights holder of famed bank robber demands millions for use of name in Godfather games.

  PS3 - Sep 03, 2009
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  Millions at Stake as EA Sues Bank Robber's Relative Over Godfather Game Machine Guns...

  Notorious bank robber John Dillinger was gunned down by FBI agents in 1934, but his fame lives on. And that is causing some problems for game publisher Electronic Arts. EA has filed suit in federal court in San Francisco, requesting that a U.S. District Court judge grant them the okay to use the name Dillinger in association with a pair of virtual machine guns depicted in its Godfather games. The Dillinger Tommy Gun appears in the original Godfather game, while ...

  PS3, PC - Sep 02, 2009
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  Godfather: The Lawsuit Settled

  Kotaku writes: Paramount and the estate of The Godfather author Mario Puzo settled their $1 million dustup over how much was owed to whom over sales and rentals of the 2006 game. The estate of Puzo, who died in 1999, sued Paramount Pictures Corp., which licensed the game to Electronic Arts. The two sides appeared headed for trial until the agreement late Friday. Its terms were not disclosed.

  PS3, Wii - Feb 07, 2009
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  Free PlayStation 3 magazine launches

  Gamerzines, the site behind the free magazines for Xbox 360, PC games, PSP and DS, has launched its free PlayStation 3 magazine to co-incide with the UK launch of the console. As with other Gamerzines, the magazine is written by professional games journalists and offered for free in a digital format. All that is required is Adobe Reader 8 on a PC. The magazine is enhanced with videos and multimedia that play on the pages themselves. Issue 1 is available ...

  PS3 - Mar 23, 2007