Last year, the company behind the browser game Evony (which you surely have seen the advertising for around the Internet, featuring scantily clad women and slogans like "Come play, my Lord") sued the brittish blogger Bruce Everiss for libel after a series of articles about the game and its alledged connection to various gold farming outfits in China were posted on his website. The libel case was brought up in Australia, in what is believed to be a simple case of "libel tourism" since neither Evony or Everiss are based there, but today - after two days of hearings - the case has been dropped by the people behind Evony.
According to The Guardian, "Evony's case began to break down during the second day when [vice development director] Gifford was cross-examined. He admitted that his claim to have BA and MBA degrees were not true. Everiss's lawyers, led by Damian Sturzacker of Marque Lawyers, also established links between Evony and two companies, Regan Mercantile of Hong Kong - owned by a mysterious woman named Lu Lu - and Regan Mercantile of New York."
The people behind Evony now need to pay the A$114,000 that covers the defence's costs. Evony themselves claim that the case was dropped because of pressure from their own player base, while sources told The Guardian that they did it so the case wouldn't overshadow their upcoming update to the game.