Games, Rumors, Courtroom Meltdowns and Lu Lu

Posted on April 6, 2010 by Scott Jennings| 21 Comments

Evony is in the news for a few reasons:

* They just launched a shiny new version, with 100% more queens to save!
* They stopped suing blogger/gadfly/really getting quite creepy stalker and not in a good way Bruce Everiss
* Walt Yarbrough, whom I worked with on Dark Age of Camelot, and who’s now heading up Evony’s Boston studio gave an interview with Ars Technica, where he did about as well as could be expected given, you know, hey, Evony.

It’s all very standard stuff, Evony’s rework looks very slick for a free to play game, they’re promising to stop shaking breasts in your ad banners, and all that. But as always the most intriguing things are in the margins, such as this line from the Guardian piece:

Everiss’s lawyers, led by Damian Sturzacker of Marque Lawyers, also established links between Evony and two companies, Regan Mercantile of Hong Kong – owned by a mysterious woman named Lu Lu – and Regan Mercantile of New York.

That’s right, one of the most popular free to play games in the world is apparently the property of A MYSTERIOUS WOMAN NAMED LU LU.

I’ve thought about this for the past ten minutes and I can’t think of anything funnier than just stopping right… here.

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  • Jeff

    It’s all right, it’s all right, all right
    She moves in mysterious ways

  • Athryn

    Copper works for Evony? Color me shocked.

  • http://www.therealstupid.com Stupid

    What’s a Lu Lu?

  • Zuzax

    Why is this not filed under Lu Lu?

  • Scott Jennings

    Lu Lu is the fist of justice.

  • http://geldonsgaming.blogspot.com geldonyetich

    The Lu was what the game was flushed down, but it just keeps coming back up to the surface.

  • sinij

    There is something wrong with nudity/pornography?

  • Boanerges

    Watch that first step, Walt. It’s a Lu Lu…

  • Freakazoid

    Do you pursue Lu Lu?

  • http://stabbedup.blogspot.com/ Stabs

    Shout now, my Lord

  • http://stabbedup.blogspot.com/ Stabs

    “getting quite creepy stalker and not in a good way Bruce Everiss”

    I think his investigation is understandable.

    - the burden of proof in libel cases in some jurisdictions is on the defendant. In other words to clear his name he must prove what he wrote was true.

    - his ongoing revelations are clearly damaging the company to the point where it may be better to back off than pursue him.

    - his legal defence is funded at least partly by donations from blog readers. If he stops writing he slows that income stream.

    Yeah he’s publishing photos of games company execs while criticising them but how many people put up pictures of Kotick while criticising him? In fact did you not do so once, Lum?

  • http://word-of-shadow.blogspot.com Melf_Himself

    Epic:

    “Q. When did you develop that problem, in the last ten seconds?
    A. Yes.”

  • Cosmik

    I believe a “LULU” is what Benjamin Gifford is claiming to have, now that it was proven in court he has no BA or MBA.

  • Zuzax

    Lo Pan is not amused.

  • Random Poster

    There has been a reference to Big Trouble in Little China.

    This post is now complete.

  • Vetarnias

    I’m Lu Lu!

  • ToeJob

    I thought boobs was why peopled played Evony in the first place. I dodge browser games like the girl at the local bar with the sores on her mouth though.

  • Axecleaver

    Quality gaming-industry-drama post, Lum. Gold star for you.

  • Guido Jones

    Oh Copper :/

  • http://tagn.wordpress.com/ Wilhelm2451

    All this is bringing up very strange Evony mixed with “To Sir, With Love” mental imagery overlayed with the theme from “The Man with the Golden Gun.”

    But I’m old and this is certainly not that Lulu.

  • Walt Y

    @Guido -

    Check out my comments on Tweety’s page.