Brash sued by two developers

This was probably inevitable after Brash stopped paying developers about two months ago and then, last week, shut down.

7 Studios and Zootfly, two independent developers working on projects for Brash, have sued to try and win money they're owed. L.A.-based 7 Studios says Brash owes it $468,000 for its work on "9," an adaptation of an upcoming animated film from Focus Features produced by Tim Burton (one of the few games on Brash's slate I didn't previously know about) and $113,000 for "Six Flags Fun Park," (pictured left) a Wii and DS mini-game collection that's supposed to be coming out right about now (has anybody seen it on shelves?). Slovenian developer Zootfly, meanwhile, says Brash owes it $748,000 for work on the videogame version of the Fox TV show "Prison Break."

Brash had around a dozen projects in development and hasn't been paying developers for a while, so I would suspect more lawsuits are coming.

Mitch Davis, CEO of Brash, didn't respond to a request for comment.

However I did speak to 7 Studios CEO Lewis Peterson. While he understandably didn't want to comment on the suit, he did say that he thought "Fun Park," which is now complete, is a good game and he's hopeful Brash will either manage to get it onto shelves or else find another publisher to pick it up. "I honestly believe it would have been the best game Brash had produced," he stated (probably not with the intention of damning his studio with faint praise), describing it as "like a cross between 'Animal Crossing' and 'Carnival Games.'"

He also noted an interesting fact about the game: It was never intended to be tied into Six Flags. 7 Studios sold it as an original casual mini-game adventure to Brash last year, before 2K's "Carnival Games" (with which it has many obvious similarities) had even been released. Apparently Brash inserted the Six Flags license mainly as a cosmetic addition just a few months ago in hopes that would help boost sales (and also, I guess, maintain Brash's stated mission of only working with licenses).

Also noteworthy in Brash news today: Former president Nicholas Longano, who left in May, has re-surfaced, per Digital Media Wire, as the co-founder of Music Mogul, a soon-to-launch virtual world for aspiring musicians and fans.