Hey, remember Digital Homicide? The games company that wanted to sue 100 nameless Steam users, and when they asked Valve for their real names Valve turned around and said ‘Nope!’ and then removed them and their games from Steam? Yeah, that was weird wasn’t it?

Before that though they also filed a lawsuit against Youtube critic Jim Sterling for ‘assault, libel and slander’ for one of his reviews against one of their games. That lawsuit wasn’t revoked when Digital Homicide had to cease production after having their games removed from sale (and after filing ANOTHER lawsuit against Valve for having done so), but now that lawsuit has been dismissed with prejudice. That basically means that the lawsuit cannot crop up again.

In a blog post about it, Sterling wrote that the whole ordeal was a drain upon both his resources and emotions. Basically he probably wouldn’t have recovered the costs already involved if it went to court, so a dismissal is the best result possible for him right now. He also says that the suit was dropped after his lawyer explained to the plaintiff, James Romine, what would happen if the case went to court.

“That it got as far as it did, went on for as long as it did, is atrocious – especially when this is a case that amounts to a game developer wanting to silence a game critic. I personally viewed, and still view, the lawsuit as an attempted attack on my freedom to do my legally protected job. I personally perceive it as an attack launched by a man who is unable to deal with criticism in a reasonable fashion and has sought to blame me, continuously, for his failures.” Sterling said.

I thought the story was already over when Digital Homicide went under, but it’s good to hear that the lawsuit is now dead and gone for good.