I’m not exactly Stephen Fry on Twitter. At the time of writing, my main @craiggrannell account has about 1700 followers, and I get one or two new ones daily. Therefore, it’s easy for me to check every new follower, in case they’re someone interesting. One of today’s most certainly is: Tim Langdell, or rather, Edge Games, his nom-de-plume in the videogames industry. Yup, he signed up at @edgegames and currently appears to be following me, someone who retweeted the most recent article I wrote about his interesting take on his court cases, and precisely one other person. ‘Yay.’

Anyway, he provides some exciting extra insight into his thinking about current events, including the following gem:

Bobby Bearing 2 is finally on AppStore! (as EDGEBobby2 since the full name wouldn’t fit into 12 Chrs for a good fit name)

The bizarre name of his new game is something I and other people have raised, wondering if it was to be used during appeal, in order to say “hey, look, I am still using this Edge name and Mobigame were big, fat liars”; as it turns out, he’s now hugely in love with Mobigame, and everything he’s done for years was down to EVIL FUTURE PUBLISHING:

Since we’re now free of restrictions and requirements on us by Future, we’re now heartily promoting Mobigame’s games. They rock!

Mobigame’s response to this has been a whisker away from telling Langdell to get stuffed, and the EDGEBobby2 thing makes no sense either. I assume he’s suggesting 12 characters is a “good fit name” for the iOS home screen, but I have games that happily have 15 characters, which, by stunning coincidence, is the number of characters in ‘Bobby Bearing 2’. Additionally, you can name things differently on the App Store and the iOS home screen, and so there’s literally no reason why the App Store displays EDGEBobby2 as the name of Langdell’s new game.

Anyone still following the story might also be interested to see the new and stripped-down Edge Games website, where Langdell now pitches himself as an ‘indie games developer publisher’ rather than selling a ton of games across multiple platforms. Now there’s merely EDGEBobby2/Bobby Bearing 2, an ‘advert’ for Mobigame that Mobigame doesn’t want there, a curious statement that Future’s Publishing’s Edge trademark for its newsletter and website is still under licence from Langdell, and the usual pile of trademark and copyright notices.

So, Langdell’s down but not out, and he still claims everything that happened wasn’t down to him and that we’ve not heard Edge’s side of the story (aside from the many times he’s written to websites to tell his side of the story). In fact, he just emailed me out of the blue, providing the entire release sent to Eurogamer, and stated:

Also, do you think David Papazian is aware that Edge still owns registered trademarks for EDGE in the US and UK? And common law rights elsewhere worldwide? We were puzzled by the DCMA reference for two reasons (i) a DCMA is surely for copyright and David has written to us to say there is no copyright infringement, (ii) if he got confused and meant trademark infringement then obviously Edge is not infringing its own trademark, even if David also owns Edge registrations.

I guess if you want to untangle the mess directly, you can pop over to @edgegames and quiz Langdell yourself; as for me, I’m thoroughly bored of this entire situation now, and so this will be the last thing I ever write about Langdell on this blog.