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  • Arian Foster Sued for Pressuring a Woman into Abortion

    Houston Texans football player Arian Foster may have to worry about more than his $43.5 million contract this upcoming season.

    The married NFL player may face a lawsuit and child support by a gold-digger woman claiming to be pregnant with child. The woman identified as ‘Brittany’ asserts that Foster and his reps are pressuring her into abortion.

    The woman, who is five months pregnant, accuses Foster and his family members of constant harassment.

    TMZ reports that Brittany, 20, has confirmed Foster as the paternal father through a DNA test, which she says returned with a 99.9% match.

    The lawsuit also states that the woman would like to place a restraining order against Foster and sue for emotional distress.

    Brittany says that she met Foster in September while attending the University of Houston. She had no idea that the football player was married at the time of their intimate relationship.

    Foster and his wife already have two children together, so this would make his third child if Brittany’s accusations were proven to be correct.

    Well, this story sounds way too familiar to all the other countless situations sports players go through and it seems like they’ll never learn from the next man’s mistake.

    Apart from all the baby-mama-drama, Foster has been in rehab for back surgery. He missed most of last season due to his recovery.

    The running back has lately been receiving public scrutiny from sports announcers.

    Many say his contract has already been hurt by his surgery and now this alleged pregnancy would look bad for the 27-year-old.

    “When your franchise running back has someone pregnant with his child, out of wedlock, and is seeking a restraining order to keep you away from them, this is bad on a lot of different levels,” said 610 Sports Radio Host, Rich Lord.

    Foster and his reps have yet to respond to the dilemma.

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  • Brazilian Developer Vostu Lays Off Staff After Zynga Lawsuit

    Brazilian Developer Vostu Lays Off Staff After Zynga Lawsuit

    Zynga has been accused of being a copycat, but there are copycats of Zynga as well. Zynga doesn’t take too kindly to being copied.

    TechCruch is reporting that Brazilian social games developer, Vostu, has laid off a portion of its staff. The layoffs could be in response to the settlement of a lawsuit between Vostu and Zynga back in December that saw Vostu paying an undisclosed amount to Zynga.

    Vostu issued a statement regarding the layoffs to TechCruch:

    “Vostu grew a significant amount in the last 18 months and is constantly focused on improving efficiency for future growth which includes select and strategic hiring. We are consolidating our game design and development at our new headquarters in Buenos Aires.”

    Vostu was accused last June of copying Zynga’s games down to the letter. As a humorous aside, Zynga alleged that Vostu copied their games so well that even the bugs from Zynga’s games were present in the copycats.

    As said above, the two companies reached a settlement in December of last year. The settlement saw Vostu not only making a payment to Zynga, but changing four of their games to remove the infringing content.

    Then again, the layoffs could just be as the company describes it – consolidating their development team. It’s a common occurrence in the gaming industry to see layoffs especially after the completion of games.

    Vostu launched four mobile games over the past two months and reportedly over 25 percent of all online Brazilians play their games. The company is planning to launch two games next month.

    Who knows if the settlement is what caused Vostu to layoff some of its staff. With how fast the social gaming industry has grown, however, it shouldn’t be too long before those who were laid off find new work.

    Here’s a video comparison between Zynga’s and Vostu’s games: