Ubisoft Hit With Lawsuit for Shutting Down The Crew – IGN Every day Repair

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Ubisoft is being sued by a few California players in a category motion lawsuit over the shutdown of The Crew. The sport is a 2014 open-world racing recreation that required an web connection to work, and now that Ubisoft pulled the plug on it, even bodily copies not work. The 2 players filed the lawsuit, reasoning that the bodily copies they bought was the sport itself, and never a license for the sport, as is frequent with digital copies. The lawsuit comes forward of a California regulation that may go into impact in 2025, which requires retailers to make it clear that when buying media like a recreation or film, you are solely shopping for a license, and never a duplicate of the media itself. In different information, Amazon’s Secret Degree anthology present won’t pull its Harmony section, regardless of the sport—and studio—being shuttered by Sony mere weeks after launch. Secret Degree’s Tim Miller praised developer Firewalk Studio, and admitted that there had been no dialogue of shelving the Harmony episode. And eventually, Valve is releasing a brand new Steam Deck, this one with the identical specs because the OLED however in a really restricted version white colorway. You will want an lively Steam account in good standing to snag one.