Electronic Arts may have pushed back the release of their Godfather II game from this month until sometime this spring but there's apparently some good news concerning the game franchise on the legal front. The AP reports that a previously announced lawsuit concerning the first Godfather game, released in 2006, has now been settled.Last June Anthony Puzo, the son of the late author of The Godfather novel Mario Puzo, filed a $1 million lawsuit against Paramount Pictures, the studio behind the movie version. Anthony Puzo claimed the movie studio failed to pay the Puzo estate on royalties generated from the first EA Godfather game (EA itself was not named in the lawsuit). Now the Puzo estate and Paramount have apparently reached a settlement. As usual in these cases, details about the settlement have not been revealed.

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