Edge Games, Inc is an American video game developer and publisher headquartered in Pasadena, California, best known for the practices of its founder and chief executive officer, Tim Langdell, in enforcing trademarks relating to the word "edge", which sources have described as "litigious".
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In 2010, Edge Games sued Electronic Arts for trademark infringement, but eventually settled, with Edge surrendering many of its registrations.
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Darius + saw the first introduction of a new logo for The Edge Games designed by illustrator Rodney Matthews who produced the cover artwork for the game.
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Edge Games, founded in California in 1990, acquired the intellectual property assets of Softek and have released nine games in the last 25 years.
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Edge Games has been involved in a number of disputes over trademarks connected to the word "edge".
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In May 2009, French indie game developer Mobigame had their iOS title Edge Games removed from Apple's App Store in the US and the UK due to lawsuit threats by Tim Langdell.
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An Edge Games spokesperson, writing from Tim Langdell's personal email address and signing off as "Tim Langdell", claims that their registration was the result of a misunderstanding "probably in part caused by David Papazian's less than perfect English".
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Mobigame's lawyers issued a response to the effect that the Eurogamer article is accurate and that Edge Games's rebuttal is false, and stated that they were gathering evidence to demonstrate that communications Edge Games claims, in its rebuttal, to have made did not actually occur.
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EA stated that it had filed the petition because Edge Games had "continuously" threatened legal action with respect to the title of EA's 2008 game Mirror's Edge, and that the trademarks had either been obtained by fraud or abandoned through nonuse.
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Edge Games filed a trademark infringement lawsuit against EA over the "Mirror's Edge" mark in June 2010.
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Almost a year later, and after a case in the UK court against Future, Langdell claimed that Edge Games filed the lawsuit against EA at the insistence of its trademark partner Future Publishing.
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Edge Games charged EA with engaging in willful infringement and unfair competition, and requested damages and a court injunction against further infringement.
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In 2014, Edge Games began a trademark case against the game peripherals company Razer Inc, regarding its Razer Edge gaming tablets.
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Edge Games filed an application for "SL8" in tablets in 2012, serial number 85704825, indicating that it would sell Windows 8 tablets at some point.
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Edge Games stated he was confident that if a quorum was formed the vote would go in his favor, but feared that a quorum would not be attained and the "vocal minority" would not accept the outcome and continue to cause further disruption to the IGDA.
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