Today, a US District Court jury in California ruled in favour of Robin Antonick, the original designer of EA’s Madden NFL series, over Electronic Arts. The court awarded Antonick with $11 million, payable by EA, in the process.
Antonick’s lawsuit against EA was for unpaid royalties of Madden games released between 1990 and 1996. Antonick essentially claimed that the code in his original version was still being used today.
The Californian jury decided that those Madden iterations “were virtually identical to the original version of Madden NFL Football, developed by Antonick,” reads a press release by Hagens Berman, the law firm that represented Antonick.
$11 million isn’t enough for Antonick, either. Hagens Berman’s press release also states that Antonick will “seek to appeal previous rulings that excluded Super Nintendo games and fraud claims from the jury deliberations.
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