Epic: Silicon Knights lawsuit over, ‘jury finds for Epic on all counts’ [Update: Epic awarded $4.45 million]

According to Epic Game vice president and co-founder Mark Rein, the years long lawsuit between Silicon Knights and Epic Games came to an end today. Rein took to Twitter to broadcast the news. “Case over. Jury finds for Epic on all counts,” he said. Silicon Knights hasn’t issued a formal response as of yet, though we’ve reached out for confirmation.

The suit arose over allegations from Silicon Knights that Epic Games was withholding pieces of its Unreal Engine 3 – pieces that were allegedly instrumental in the creation of Too Human. Due to the alleged delays, Silicon Knights says it was forced to implement its own game engine (known only as “Silicon Knights engine”) to complete the project.

Since Too Human, Silicon Knights went on to create the critically-panned X-Men: Destiny and suffered major layoffs. Epic, however, has seen its Unreal Engine 3 thrive across the current generation of consoles, not to mention the success it’s seen with the Gears of War franchise.

Update: Epic issued a statement this afternoon stating that “The jury rejected Silicon Knights’ claim that Epic breached its Unreal Engine 3 license agreement with Silicon Knights. The jury also found in Epic’s favor on all of its counterclaims, namely that Silicon Knights breached the license agreement, misappropriated Epic’s trade secrets, and infringed Epic’s copyrights in the Unreal Engine 3 code. The jury awarded Epic damages totaling $4.45 million.” The full statement is below the break; we’ve yet to hear anything from Silicon Knights.

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