Comments on: Rovio set to launch its next mobile game “Amazing Alex” http://blogs.reuters.com/mediafile/2012/07/11/rovio-set-to-launch-its-next-mobile-game-amazing-alex/ Where media and technology meet Tue, 21 May 2013 13:59:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: SunnyFrimley http://blogs.reuters.com/mediafile/2012/07/11/rovio-set-to-launch-its-next-mobile-game-amazing-alex/comment-page-1/#comment-415316 SunnyFrimley Thu, 12 Jul 2012 07:16:11 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/mediafile/?p=35390#comment-415316 How can the makers of Casey's Contraptions claim intellectual copyright when it was a blatant copy of Crazy Contraptions, which was itself a revamp of a game originally released in the early Nineties called "The Incredible Machine?" Don't get me wrong, The Incredible Machine and Crazy Contraptions were great puzzle games, but unless Casey's Contraptions bought the IP off Sierra Online or whoever had it, then they had nothing to sell to Rovio as they directly copied it. How can the makers of Casey’s Contraptions claim intellectual copyright when it was a blatant copy of Crazy Contraptions, which was itself a revamp of a game originally released in the early Nineties called “The Incredible Machine?”

Don’t get me wrong, The Incredible Machine and Crazy Contraptions were great puzzle games, but unless Casey’s Contraptions bought the IP off Sierra Online or whoever had it, then they had nothing to sell to Rovio as they directly copied it.

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