Acclaim Loses MLB and Turok Licenses
 July 6th, 2004 (12:00am) - According to GameIndustry.biz, Acclaim has lost their Major League Baseball and Turok licenses due to “non-payment of royalties due.”
The stripping of the MLB license from Acclaim by the MLBPA means that publisher may no longer use real player and team names in their games, a loss that will hurt Acclaim’s most popular and only truly successful game franchise, All Star Baseball. The loss of the Turok franchise also comes as a big loss. Even though Turok Evolution was considered to be a flop in the game industry, its loss (taken from Acclaim by license owner Classic Media) re-affirms Acclaim poor stance in the industry. During the last gaming generation, the original Turok for the Nintendo 64 actually saved Acclaim from its financial woes at the time.
Reported by Elias Dounis on July 6th, 2004 (12:00am) [From: GameIndustry.biz]
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