UPDATE (December 3): Edgy has been discontinued, following further legal issues with Edge Games. Mobigame says it will now await the ruling of the EA case before attempting to return Edge to the UK and US App Stores. At the time of writing, Edge remains available in some other territories.
The car-crash legal battle between Mobigame and Tim Langdell took a short detour today with the announcement that Edge is back on the US and UK App Stores, this time branded Edgy (App Store link).
As reported on Cult of Mac and elsewhere, the indie developer’s game has been the subject of a protracted legal battle against Tim Langdell’s Edge Games, a ‘company’ that seems to operate in a somewhat suspect manner. Due to threats, Mobigames pulled Edge itself once, and then Apple did so twice, the second time very recently after the indie title was rebranded ‘Edge by Mobigame’.
The latest change, to Edgy, has appeared on the UK and US App Stores without reviews and ratings, and Mobigame confirmed via Twitter that it is “a new product designed for the Amercian legal system […] you can still find the old product on all others continents” [sic]. When asked how updates would be tackled (since the new product is divorced from Edge purchases in the US and UK), Mobigames responded that there would be “no update until EA win in the US/UK, and then maybe EDGE 2. We are working on the new games here, you will love them”.
Mobigame’s reference to EA is regarding the company filing suit against Edge Games, primarily to deal with a spat relating to Mirror’s Edge, but also because “filing the complaint is the right thing to do for the developer community”. In the meantime, it appears Edge/Edgy itself is finally available on a permanent basis, albeit without any chance of updates. On the latter point, the game is stable and fun as it is, and so that’s not a problem; on the former, only time will tell if Edge Games/Langdell takes exception to the Edgy brand, regardless of previous claims that this would settle the matter between Edge Games and Mobigames for good.
