The Star Control feud is over and bees have a lot to do with it

Whoever would have thought bees would help settle a long-running feud? Well they have and, "honestly and truly", the creators of Star Control, and Stardock, are finally getting along.

Who owns what trademark and copyright, and so on, has all been cleared up. Moreover, the creators of Star Control and Star Control 2, Paul Reiche and Fred Ford, will now work with Stardock - creator of Star Control: Origins - on making a brand new Star Control game. Work begins this autumn.

A couple of months ago, this would have been unheard of. Reiche and Ford, and Starock boss Brad Wardell, were at loggerheads about who owned Star Control and everything it entailed - we wrote a feature last year about the big Star Control tussle.

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