Beyoncé Reaches Settlement With Game Developer In $100 Million Suit

Superstar Beyoncé has made peace with a Manhattan video game developer that sued her for $100 million after she backed out of a deal to make an interactive game with them.

The terms of the deal were not disclosed and lawyers for both sides did not return calls seeking comment, but that the case had settled was disclosed on the website for Manhattan Supreme Court website on Friday.

Gate Five had sued Beyoncé for abruptly withdrawing from their deal in December 2010, putting 70 people out of work two weeks before Christmas and costing the company millions in money it had spent developing the game.

Lawyers for Beyoncé said her contract gave her to the right to bail after Gate Five lost its financial backing and new financiers wanted to eliminate her 40% ownership stake in the franchise.

Gate Five's lawyers said that the real problem was that Beyoncé made “extortionate” last minute demands that would have given her more profit.

Neither side was talking Friday.

The settlement came after Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Charles Ramos ruled in February that Beyoncé could not block Gate Five's lawyers from speaking to all 27 people on her team who knew why she acted as she did in 2010.

Among those expected to sing under oath about the scuttled “Starpower: Beyoncé” dance game were the “Single Ladies” singer herself and her father, who was her manager at the time.

The case focused on the particulars of a multi-million dollar deal that Beyoncé negotiated for an interactive game where viewers imitating her in front of a television screen would get praise on their moves, or advice on how to improve, from the singer in her voice.


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