Posted: 30-04-09 In: News By: -smash- | (22) comments | Add your comments

Yup, that case back in 2002 between Valve and Vivendi… it’s back. Only this time it’s Valve versus Activision, because Vivendi has merged with Activision since the last lawsuit.

On Tuesday Valve filed suit against Activision Blizzard in U.S. District Court in Seattle. The suit alleges that Activision refused to honor an agreement to abide by an arbitrator's April 6th award decision involving a 2002 dispute over royalties.

Activision paid Valve last week the sum of $1,967,796, when Valve were awarded a payment of $2,391,932 as a result of the trial back in 2002. That leaves an outstanding balance of $424,136, which Activision claim has been paid to Valve over the past few years.

More details can be found here, and here for the complaint filed by Valve.