The jury in a lawsuit brought against Electronic Arts (EA) regarding its Madden NFL franchise ruled yesterday that the game's original programmer is owed royalties on the Madden NFL games published by EA. By ruling in the plaintiff's favor, the jury awarded Robin Antonick a multi-million-dollar judgment and set the stage for another phase of the Madden NFL lawsuit regarding all games in the franchise published after 1996. After three days of deliberations in the Madden NFL lawsuit, a jury in U.S. District Court in … [Read more...]