It was two weeks in the past after we reported that Void Struggle had been DMCA’d by a celebration claiming to be Video games Workshop. Now, we are able to verify that it was certainly Video games Workshop that filed the Void Struggle DMCA as Tundra Interactive has advised us extra about this story, and the way Void Struggle is again up on Steam now.
After failing to speak with Tundra Interactive for per week, Video games Workshop lastly replied, and confirmed that the Void Struggle DMCA was on their behalf. That implies that Video games Workshop does make use of a lawyer named Mal Reynolds, regardless of how unlikely that appeared, and it’s a deeply ironic title given the Firefly character with the identical title. Tundra Interactive explains what challenge Video games Workshop had with Void Struggle:
They mentioned their concern was restricted to a selected shot from one of many trailers on the shop web page, arguing that sure parts might create the mistaken impression that Void Struggle is related to Video games Workshop, particularly what they described as “the outsized convex shoulder pads with a metallic rim.”
Tundra Interactive emphasizes that each one the art work within the trailer for Void Struggle was unique work created by their artists. Regardless of that, within the objective of a quick decision, they’ve eliminated the story trailer that had the offending picture. With that accomplished, they had been capable of get the sport again up on Steam. Tundra Interactive said, “We might re-upload an up to date model later after we discover time to regulate that shot, however for now our precedence is transport content material and ending multi-language font help so we are able to lastly ship correct translations.” saying that new variations of the trailer might come.
It’s doable to view the trailer by way of a hyperlink from SteamDB which has a picture at 34 seconds which match the outline given by Video games Workshop, in addition to confirmed by Tundra Interactive that it’s the offending picture.
Video games Workshop has a historical past of being… very protecting of its IP, relationship again to actions like attempting to trademark the time period House Marine, to the contentious relationship with followers over issues like fan animations that they took steps to ban.
We beforehand reached out to Video games Workshop, however they didn’t reply relating to whether or not they had filed the DMCA in opposition to Tundra Interactive.
Hopefully, all’s properly that ends properly and Tundra Interactive can get again to creating their recreation with out additional authorized hurdles. Void Struggle is on the market on Steam and likewise on Itch.Io, which may even present a Steam key.
