Shadow of the Eternals was meant to be the successor to Eternal Darkness, the latter having been developed by defunct game studio Silicon Knights and the former by Precursor Games, a new company molded out of the core team of Silicon Knights. The first Kickstarter campaign was a failure, gathering $128,000 of the $1.35 million requested. Lowering their target to $750,000, the second campaign also failed.
You can’t find Silicon Knights games on store shelves anymore, unless you find stores selling them pre-owned, and there’s a very good reason for that. A court ordered them to be destroyed. Back in 2007, Silicon Knights decided to sue Epic Games under the allegation that the company wasn’t developing the Unreal Engine up to the standards that they agreed upon, forcing them to develop their own engine. Epic counter-sued and revealed that Silicon Knights had stolen the Unreal Engine code.
Evidence shown in court proved that the Silicon Knights engine was using 20% of the Unreal Engine. Embarrassingly, SK not only copy and pasted the code but included all of the developer notes with associated typographical errors. They did, however, make sure to remove any notes of Epic’s copyright and fill in their own. In the end, Silicon Knights was convicted on all counts, given a hefty $4.45 million judgement, and ordered to recall and destroy all copies of their games using the engine.
Since then, Precursor Games has pretty much gone dark.
Until now. Denis Dyack has reappeared on Youtube on a channel called The Quantum Tunnel. Yesterday the channel uploaded a trailer for Shadow of the Eternals, noting involvement from two companies: Quantum Entanglement Entertainment and Fast Motion Studios.
Dyack posted a podcast a couple of days ago where he calls out unethical press over what he perceived to be unfair coverage of the earlier Kickstarter. Dyack refers to his company as the “karmic revenants that are going to continue to be here and not go away.”
“We are coming back from the dead,” he exclaims.
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