{"id":28476,"date":"2018-06-26T10:15:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-26T10:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/06\/epic_is_suing_former_employee_for_leaking_major_fortnite_details_before_release"},"modified":"2018-06-26T10:15:00","modified_gmt":"2018-06-26T10:15:00","slug":"epic-is-suing-former-employee-for-leaking-major-fortnite-details-before-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/06\/26\/epic-is-suing-former-employee-for-leaking-major-fortnite-details-before-release\/","title":{"rendered":"Epic Is Suing Former Employee For Leaking Major Fortnite Details Before Release"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/06\/epic_is_suing_former_employee_for_leaking_major_fortnite_details_before_release\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/06\/epic_is_suing_former_employee_for_leaking_major_fortnite_details_before_release\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<aside class=\"picture embed centered picture-900x img-900x\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"fortnite.jpg\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/06\/epic_is_suing_former_employee_for_leaking_major_fortnite_details_before_release\/attachment\/0\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/06\/epic_is_suing_former_employee_for_leaking_major_fortnite_details_before_release\/attachment\/0\/900x.jpg\" alt=\"fortnite.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>A former employee of Epic Games is reportedly being sued by the company for\u00a0leaking details surrounding <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/fortnite\"><strong>Fortnite<\/strong><\/a>&#8216;s fourth season, sharing information on its themes and plot points before its official release.<\/p>\n<p>As the game&#8217;s third season was coming to a close, excitement began to rise amongst players who had noticed meteors falling from the sky in-game. The meteors turned out to be a tease from Epic, subtly hinting towards the destruction of Dusty Depot and the superhero themes which would become available for characters. Days before the season officially started, however, these details were leaked online by a man named\u00a0Adam DiMarco, and Epic is claiming that he received this information through one of its own employees.<\/p>\n<p>According to the suit (thanks <a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/uk.ign.com\/articles\/2018\/06\/25\/leaker-of-fortnites-season-4-meteor-saga-being-sued-by-epic\">IGN<\/a>),\u00a0Epic says that ex-quality assurance tester Thomas Hannah is guilty of breaching a non-disclosure agreement, claiming that he\u00a0had access to confidential information through private meetings regarding upcoming seasons which was ultimately shared with DiMarco.\u00a0The information is said to have been shared three weeks after Hannah&#8217;s last day with the company.<\/p>\n<p>Hannah has filed a defence to this suit, acknowledging the breaking of an agreement despite also stating he had no control over DiMarco&#8217;s eventual actions. It states that DiMarco made deductions based on Hannah\u2019s vague responses, rather than Hannah outwardly presenting complete information.<\/p>\n<p>As always, legal cases such as this can take a\u00a0<em>very\u00a0<\/em>long time to reach any conclusion so we&#8217;re unlikely to hear any outcomes for a while. In the meantime, with Fortnite&#8217;s fifth season now just around the corner, let&#8217;s hope no-one else gets themselves into trouble. If you&#8217;re interested, you can read through Epic&#8217;s\u00a0<a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/document\/382420548\/Epic-Games-vs-Thomas-Hannah-May-7-complaint\">suit<\/a> here, as well as the full <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/document\/382420610\/Thomas-Hannah-reply-to-Epic-Games-complaint-June-21-2018\">defence<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former employee of Epic Games is reportedly being sued by the company for\u00a0leaking details surrounding Fortnite&#8216;s fourth season, sharing information on its themes and plot points before its official release. As the game&#8217;s third season was coming to a close, excitement began to rise amongst players who had noticed meteors falling from the sky [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}