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Earlier this month Timegate Studios filed a lawsuit concerning their upcoming sci-fi shooter Section 8. However it looks like everything is A-OK, at least for now. According to Shacknews, Timegate has withdrawn the lawsuit filled against Paramount Pictures.

Timegate had been accusing the movie studio of stealing the Section 8 title for an upcoming web series after Timegate demoed Section 8 for Paramount executives. Now Timegate says Paramount has agreed not to use Section 8 as the title for their proposed series. Meanwhile the Tribes-like game from Timegate is moving forward and is scheduled to be released via publisher Southpeak Games sometime this fall.

Last April, game developer Timegate Studios settled a lawsuit with the ABC TV network over the use of the Section 8 name which Timegate has trademarked for use in its upcoming sci-fi shooter. Now Team Xbox is reporting that Timegate is engaged in another legal battle over the name, this time with movie studio Paramount Pictures.

Team Xbox reports that Timegate has sued Paramount, alledging that the movie studio is trying to steal the Section 8 name for an upcoming "interactive web series". The kicker is that Timegate claims it had meetings with Paramount to discuss "potential business ventures". In those meetings Timegate said it discussed and demoed the Section 8 game with movie studio reps. Paramount then alledgedly canceled future meetings with Timegate just a few days before they announced their plans for their Section 8 interactive web series. Paramount has not yet responded to the lawsuit. In the meantime the Section 8 game is due for release sometime this fall via Southpeak Games.

[Via Shacknews]

One of the biggest, if not the biggest, summer movies of 2009 is set for release on May 8 when Star Trek heads to theaters. The new adventures of the original crew of the Enterprise (with an all-new cast) has generated ton of press months before the release.

Now comes word via fan site TrekMovie.com that an upcoming game based on the movie is in the works. The site has posted up a flyer (reproduced here) that will be included in the Blu-Ray release of the Star Trek Season One TV series. It shows a game being announced called Star Trek D-A-C with a picture of the movie's version of the Enterprise firing at alien ships. The flyer shows a May 2009 release date and a logo for Naked Sky Entertainment. The developer's previous game was the 2006 released downloadable title Roboblitz (one of the first games to use Unreal Engine 3). It also shows a ParamountPictures.com/games URL that, for the moment, just feeds into the main web site address of the movie studio.

So what exactly is this game and why has Paramount decided to basically publish this game itself instead of working with another publisher? Stay tuned.