Epic's Mark Rein has issued a statement which reveals that the company has found itself victim to a lawsuit from licensee Silicon Knights which is assumed to be over UE3 utilizing Xbox 360 title Too Human. Rein's statement states that this morning Epic were hit with a lwsuit and believe it is without merit and intend to fully defend against it.

Rein's statement, sent out to the media this afternoon, reads as follows: "This morning we were served with a lawsuit by Silicon Knights. We believe the claims against us are unfounded and without merit and we intend to fully defend against them."

The Epic VP continues: "We'd love to tell you more about it but unfortunately our lawyers want us to save our comments for the courthouse so we're going to do our best to comply with their wishes."

He concludes: "In that vein we'd appreciate if our friends in the industry and media would refrain from asking us about the suit because we're only going to say "no comment". We just wanted to share the news directly before the rumor mill starts churning."