Maybe Baseball players don't make good video game studio heads. Former Phillies and Diamondbacks pitcher Curt Schilling has finally settled his ongoing lawsuit with the State of Rhode Island, agreeing (with other parties) to pay $2.5 million of the $75 million deal the two sides agreed to over the failed game company. The settlement has yet to be officially approved by a judge, but if so, Schilling's part in the case would officially be over.
Throughout the process, Schilling has denied any wrongdoing on his part over the failure of the Kingdoms of Amalur studio. At one time, he blamed the State of Rhode Island for dropping the ball on a publishing deal worth $35 million after Governor Lincoln Chafee revealed that the launch date of an MMO that the studio was working on called Project Copernicus had been delayed until June 2013. Chafee also announced that the state was trying to keep the studio “solvent” which caused the unknown publisher to back out of the deal.
Schilling did later admit that there were things he could have done better throughout the process (namely not blindsiding his employees with a layoff), but that he had poured everything into the company to help it succeed. In order to help payoff some of the debt owed to Rhode Island, Schilling's bloody sock that was made famous during Game 2 of the 2004 World Series with (that other team) the Boston Red Sox was auctioned off.
Source: [Associated Press]
