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Court allows Rhode Island to sue ex-baseball star Curt Schilling over failed 38 Studios game startup

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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A Rhode Island judge cleared a state agency to proceed with a lawsuit against former Boston Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling and executives at his failed 38 Studios video game company to move forward.

That means the state’s Economic Development Corp. may get a chance to recoup some losses related to a $75 million loan guarantee that the state gave the Kingdoms of Amalaur: Reckoning developer in exchange for it relocating from Massasschusetts to Rhode Island.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.