Shrapnel Game Studio Founders Say Majority Shareholder Is Staging a Coup

  • December 15, 2023
Shrapnel Game Studio Founders Say Majority Shareholder Is Staging a Coup

Neon Machine, the video game studio behind the upcoming first-person shooter blockchain video game Shrapnel, is involved in a legal fight over a declared coup at the business.

6 creators at the studio, which spun off from HBO in 2020, have actually submitted a suit in the Delaware Court of Chancery versus 4D Factory financial investment company CEO Cort Javarone, among Neon’s financiers, in addition to 4D equity holder Steve Horowitz and personal equity company Northern Pacific Group’s Scott Honour, Law360 Reported Monday.

The Neon creators who submitted the suit consist of CTO and Studio Head Don Norbury, Chief Creative Officer Colin Foran, COO Aaron Nonis, CMO Mark Yeend, Neon’s Head of Business Development Naomi Lackaff, and Neon’s apparently ousted CEO Mark Long, according to the report.

Law360 composed that Javarone supposedly selected himself as Neon CEO on November 13 and likewise eliminated Long from the studio’s board of directors (Long still has actually Shrapnel CEO noted as his task title on Linkedin, nevertheless).

Image: Shrapnel/Neon Machine.

Long asserted on Twitter Tuesday that he stays in his CEO function.

“The problem promotes itself. I’m still CEO and they simply got served.

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