Edge Games founder Tim Langdell may have picked on someone a little too big. According to an undisclosed court document, Langdell has lost a crucial court case against publishing giant EA pertaining to the word “Edge”, which Langdell had prevoiusly trademarked.

The court has decided to denied Langdell’s motion for injunction, citing that it believes that Langdell made fraudulent statements to the US Patent and Trademark Office and strongly believes that Langdell is “suspect,” and has been “trolling” the game industry for licensing opportunities. His actions could possibly warrant “criminal penalties.”

This is because Langdell has been trolling game developers for quite sometime now by holding a trademark on the word “Edge” and has used that trademark to legally harass anyone who uses it in the title of the game.

“Given the suspect nature of Dr. Langdell’s representations to both the USPTO and the Court concerning plaintiff’s current and future sales and business activities, it is an open question whether plaintiff’s business activities legitimately extend beyond trolling various gaming-related industries for licensing opportunities,” said the court.

“EA also presents compelling evidence that there was no bona fide use of the ‘Edge’ mark in commerce by plaintiff, its licensees, or its predecessors in interest at all between 1989 and to at least 2003. Even after 2003, the evidence that plaintiff had been making bona fide use of the ‘Edge’ mark in commerce is suspect.”

[Court rules in favour of EA over "trolling" Langdell via GamesIndustry.biz]

Since E3 ’08 we have known about I Am Alive and since then we haven’t known much about the game, but it looks like UbiSoft is ready to come out about the title. This news comes from the cover article of GamesTM, which is about I Am Alive. And as it turns out that, Raymond isn’t as involved the title as we where led to believe.

The article reveals that the team over at Darkworks, best known for survival horror game Cold Fear, has no idea how that rumor got started. But, in Raymond rumored place stands senior producer Alexis Goddard.

“We encourage the players to use tactics, diversion, and discretion,” said Goddard, mentioning that an empty shotgun can be very persuasive if enemies don’t realize it’s out of ammo.

As for comparisons to Mirror’s Edge that will undoubtedly be brought about by the game’s first-person platforming and use of violence as a last resort?

“We wanted the player to really feel the power of Mother Nature, to feel the danger coming from the collapsing towers and devastating rifts, feel the chaos happening all around him. There’s nothing like a first-person view to create that kind of emotion.”

[First Details on Ubisoft's I Am Alive Unearthed via 1UP]

Before you start reading please take note that the story has been updated below.

Independently, Black Box Studio was a great studio that produced many great games for one of the industry dominant publishers, EA – which is also a developer. There was a rumor going around that the company had plans to close Black Box Studios because they were having some financial problems.

Now, Black box Studio, responsible for the Need for Speed and the Skate franchises, has officially been given the boot. It was said that the games that EA released this holiday, like Mirrors Edge, Dead Space and Need of Speed, didn’t sell as well as they planned.

“Shutting down the studio is part of EA’s restructuring plan that hopes to save them US$ 120 million in annual costs. Part of the plan is to reduce their overall workforce by 10%, or 1,000 people.” said the press release. There was no word given on if the studios upcoming game Skate 2 has been affected.

[EA has officially closed Need for Speed Studio Black Box via Slice Gaming]

Updated: We had a chance to speak to an EA spokesperson and according to them, “Black box studios is not closed. It is going to relocate to [EA's] Burnaby facility in June 2009.”

Well, this holiday season isn’t as white as it should of been for video game publisher and developer EA, but besides all of its problems they processed to try an fulfill the needs of their Mirror’s Edge fans.

Yesterday, EA confirmed that Mirror’s Edge will be seeing a follow-up, but on the downside, it’s sad to see the company announcing this in the face of a disappointing holiday sales rate.

“While we saw significant improvement in the overall quality of our key products this year, we are disappointed that our holiday slate is not meeting our sales expectations,” said EA CEO John Riccitiello to GI.biz. “Given this performance and the uncertain economic environment, we are taking steps to reduce our cost structure and improve the profitability of our business.”

However, despite slow sales the warm critical reception afforded to Mirror’s Edge will ensure a sequel.

“Many times with a new intellectual property, the first edition doesn’t generate the units that subsequent editions could generate,” Riccitiello continued, “Mirror’s Edge is one that was very strongly reviewed, that one’s going to go forward. We’re probably going to look into some issues around the design to make sure strong IP is married with strong business.”

No one can be disappointed with the with the newest title from EA, Mirror’s Edge, but it looks like no one told Cliff Bleszinski that. In an interview with GamePro, Cliff Bleszinski had his normal talk about Gears of War 2, but one thing that stood out at the end of the interview was his lack of understanding of EA’s upcoming game, Mirror’s Edge.

Bleszinski :”I think Mirror’s Edge will be great, too, but they’re showing me too much parkour, I want to see the gunplay. I hope it’s not all just running and jumping. As long as there’s something chasing me… even Mario had Goombas, you know?”

I really don’t mean to be a pain about things like this, Cliffy, but just because a game doesn’t focus on guns doesn’t mean it isn’t a good game. Even if you want more “parkour”. Also many of you may want to know why this would concern him, it’s because the game runs on Unreal Engine 3, which was made by the company he works for Epic Games.

Comic-Con was held last week and it seems to have given some ideas to Capcom and DC Comics. Ideas indeed… Today, both company announced a partnership for a comic book adaptation of the Devil May Cry and Resident Evil franchises. The details on who the writing and  designing are yet to be revealed so is it’s official release date. But I’m sure that Wildstorm, a privately company owned by DC Comics, will be doing work on the comics.