More drama at Activision

The video game maker's legal bills keep piling up. The Santa Monica-based company has been sued by 38 former and current staffers of development studio Infinity Ward (owned by Activision and responsible for "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare"). They claim they're owed between $75 million and $125 million in unpaid royalties and potentially more in compensatory damages. You might recall that the former heads of Infinity Ward, Jason West and Vince Zampella, were fired by Activision and filed their own $36-million lawsuit over allegedly unpaid royalties. Not wasting any time, West and Zampella have already formed a new development studio and signed a deal with Electronic Arts. From the LAT:

"Activision engaged in this inappropriate course of conduct in an attempt to force employees of Infinity Ward to continue to work at a job that many of them did not want just so Activision could force them to complete the development, production and delivery of Modern Warfare 3," the suit says. It goes on to allege that Activision representatives told Infinity Ward employees that if West and Zampella had not been fired, the employees would have received bonuses approximately 2.5 times higher than what they were paid on March 26.