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Stargate Resistance, the third person multiplayer shooter, is officially on its last legs. The downloadable-only game is no longer available for sale and now the game's official web site has revealed that the multiplayer servers will shut down for people who have already purchased the game on January 15.

This news comes shortly after the game's original developer Cheyenne Mountain Entertainment won a court fight to claim the assets of Stargate Resistance back from Dark Orbit Games, who attempted to continue the game's development after Cheyenne Mountain filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy earlier this year. Even though it won the battle, Cheyenne has now also lost the war as the game license rights to the Stargate franchise have now expired.

The trials and tribulations over the multiplayer action shooter Stargate Resistance are not over yet, thanks to a new lawsuit from the game's former developer Cheyenne Mountain Entertainment against the game's new dev team at Dark Orbit Games. According to Courthouse News, shareholders for Cheyenne Mountain claim that members of Dark Orbit Games and Fresh Start Studios transferred the assets of Stargate Resistance illegally and for a fraction for what the game is worth.

Stargate Resistance was launched in February 2010 by Cheyenne Mountain Entertainment as a last ditch effort to stay afloat after plans to make an MMO game, Stargate Worlds, fell by the wayside. It wasn't enough and Cheyenne Mountain filed for bankruptcy just a few days after Stargate Resistance was released via digital download. In March it was announced that development of the game would continue at Fresh Start Studios which was later renamed as Dark Orbit Games. The development team has released several bug and content updates for the game. However the shareholders of Cheyenne Mountain now say the transfer to the new company was "improper" and want the game's assets returned, along with $10 million in damages for "breach of contract, civil conspiracy, fraudulent transfer, tortious interference and unjust enrichment."

[Via Blue's News]

The team at the new game developer Dark Orbit Games continue to put in new updates to the TV show based third person multiplayer shooter Stargate Resistance. Today a new patch was released via Steam that are apparently the first of many that will upgrade parts of the game.

This new patch brings higher detailed character models for two of the game's player classes, the SGC Soldier and System Lord Jaffa. There's also a new unlockable outfit for each model in this patch. In addition there's been some new achievements added to the game as well as some tweaks for the game's weapons and recoil animations.