New Star Control games have been caught up in a legal battle that’s gone on for too long. Original Star Control creators Fred Ford and Paul Reiche III (as Frungy Games) are trying to make a direct sequel to Star Control II - The Ur-Quan Masters, but they’ve been butting legal heads with Stardock, the company that bought up the assets and some of the IP for the game from Atari. Stardock’s released its own game, Star Control: Origins. The legal spat saw existing Star Control games yanked from sale, and the future of further games in jeopardy. The dispute has now been amicably settled – and all it took was a bit of conversation. About bees.

There’s a bit of squabbling, because original creators Reiche and Ford believe that they own the rights to the universe and its characters, and the right to use the name. Stardock, who’re making their Star Control game in Star Control: Origins, believe they won the rights. It’s gotten uglier, and weirder

Are you an aged Ur-Quan master? There's a new Star Control coming - but don;t get too excited just yet.

The DirectX 12 races has kicked off, and AMD have managed to completely blow away Nvidia in the very first benchmark test for the new API.

Direct X12 is coming soon and eberybody's talking about how much it'll benefit PC gaming. Nobody's saying how much it'll help the Xbox One though.

We've seen no real-world application of "the cloud" making Xbox One games better - but it could still happen.

Microsoft’s DirectX 12 gives developers lower-level access to hardware than ever before, and is already proving to be quite impressive. According to Stardock’s Brad Wardwell writing on Neowin, DirectX 12 will make a significant difference to the Xbox One’s graphical performance. Last Updated: April 8, 2014