A company developing a Beyonce dance game is suing the singer for $100 million for an “extortionate” demand.
According to New York magazine, software developer Gate Five was putting together a deal for a game wherein players could use motion capture to dance along to Beyonce’s hits.
They are suing Ms Carter (possibly not understanding the difference between Ms and Mrs) for “a bad faith breach of contract so callous that, on what appeared to be a whim, she destroyed Gate Five's business and drove 70 people into unemployment, the week before Christmas.”
Gate Five claim that Beyonce “made an extortionate demand for entirely new compensation”, then pulled out of the project and left the developers in limbo.
The founder of Gate Five, Greg Easley, said in an interview, "We'd much rather make a game than litigate. But we want to recover damages that Gate Five suffered."
Easley wasn’t so pragmatic in the lawsuit, claiming Beyonce’s actions were “so unscrupulous that her then manager (who is also her father) renounced them” and that the financiers “found Ms. Carter too erratic to do business with”.
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