What EA started over Mirror's Edge Future Publishing have finally finished. Langdell's company has finally been torn apart and it's no longer EDGE (tm) Games. Link

Bwahaha sucked in you trolling little shit. Hope this drives him beyond the EDGE of bankruptcy to the EDGE of his sanity and to the EDGE of a cliff where he can have a long hard think about living life as something other than an utter cunt.

I disagree with the sentiments expressed in the third to last paragraph. I take great pleasure at that man's utter humiliation and dismantling. Not only do I find his face in that photograph so enticingly punchable, but more importantly he's been taken apart by the legal frameworks he's been abusing for so long. It's a fitting and pleasing end.

EA had no involvement in this. OP is merely referring to a previous incident when he mentions them.

Rock, Paper, Shotgun have gone into much more juicy detail.

Langdell can no longer benefit from the arrangements made with Future, that allowed him to continue using the EDGE trademark in various ways, and prevented Future from using “EDGE” in association with anything other than magazines. In fact, she ruled that Langdell’s abysmal reputation was so bad that it was causing damage to Future merely by the implied association,

LOLZ

LOL, ah, finally, justice . . . =)

Ah, the article was really vague on who was involved.

The whole story is worthy of a facepalm, but this takes the cake:

"The disc was too delicate to be shipped to the UK, said Dr Tim. Despite it already having been sent across the Atlantic twice. The court ordered him to send it over. And thus Langdell sent the disc to an expert, Mr Steggles of Disklabs, who verified that the disc was indeed from 1991, and said that in his opinion it was “genuinely created at that time.” Surely Langdell was finally onto a winner? Except, well, Future’s expert, Mr Dearsley of Kroll Computers, pointed something out. The content had been created by Windows 95."

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“He then produced an involved and absurd story about how he had found two disks in a box in 2009, one of which was a mid-90s back up disk (“disk 2″) and the other of which, (disk 1) was used to clone the original. He said he took the two disks to a “repair man” and mixed them up by marking the wrong one. His oral evidence did not tally with his witness statement and his evidence about the boxes in which he allegedly found disk 1 and disk 2 was confused and unpersuasive.”

Oh gawd!

"There are other details, other legal points, other moments in which Langdell was caught with his pants down, but it becomes a bit of a pile-on after awhile and to be honest I started to feel just a little but bad for the guy. Not because he didn't bring this hammer down upon himself - he did - but because every imaginable aspect of his business and, to a large degree, his life was so thoroughly and mercilessly dismantled in the courtroom. I'm not a lawyer but I can't see where there's anything left for Langdell to salvage, and while I certainly won't mourn the end of his trademark trolling, I can't honestly find enjoyment in seeing a man so thoroughly and publicly humiliated and destroyed."

I don't feel bad at all for him. Karma's a bitch and it's always nice to see it come home to those so richly deserving of it.

Justice at last. I hope he does the decent thing and ends his life, painfully preferably.

Don't worry, buddy. I'll do it enough for the both of us.

I doubt he would do it right like so many teens. Slashing wrists is more of a cry for attention (unless no one loves you and finds you in the tub). Most muck up overdoses, too. I would expect this bastard would go the Japanese chemical cocktail route and possibly poisen anyone nearby.

What's the over/under on him suing the blogs and newpapers and commenters for displaying this news as ruining his sales and name through malicious intent to ridicule him?

Chaos Edge has been following him for years and he hasn't done a thing to them. Langdell is probably aware that to sue someone for slander or libel you have to prove they are lying.