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Last month a long-in-development fan-made continuation of the classic King's Quest adventure game series was shut down due to a cease-and-desist order by the franchise's current owners Activision. Now the makers of the non-commercial game, The Silver Lining, say they want to take the next step and purchase the intellectual rights to the King's Quest franchise from the publisher.

Our sister site Joystiq spoke to the game's co-project director and art director Richard Flores at PAX East 2010 this weekend who stated their intentions to purchase the rights "if an online movement to reverse Activision's decision to stop production on the title was unsuccessful." The report has no details on how the developer, Phoenix Online Studios, plans to raise the money to accomplish this but we are guessing it's going to take an amount in at least the six figure range for Activision to be interested.

Even though the PC version of Modern Warfare 2 has taken critical hits from both fans and game journalists alike, sales of Infinity Ward's latest shooter title are supposedly higher than those of the previous game, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. But how do these two games really stack up against each other? In our latest article in our Big Versus series we tackle that question head on as we compared the 2007 released Call of Duty 4 to Infinity Ward's latest entry in their series Modern Warfare 2.

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