Activision Successfully Adds EA To Countersuit, Email Suggests MW2 Map Pack Delayed For Bad Company 2 Launch

Late last month Activision filed a motion to amend its countersuit against Vince Zampella and Jason West; specifically, it sought to include Electronic Arts as a cross-defendant after discovering that its largest competitor had schemed to “inflict serious harm on the company.”

One redacted section in paragraph 62 of the counterclaim prefaced the email, writing, “Electronic Arts secretly conspired with Infinity Ward employees to affect the timing of the releae of Electronic Arts and Activision products to the benefit of Electronic Arts and detriment of Activision. Activision’s belief is based on an internal EA email bragging about how Electronic Arts asked Zampella to hold back the release of an Infinity Ward product until after Electronic Arts launched its game, and how Zampella ‘was cool with that.'”

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