It was two weeks in the past once we reported that Void Warfare had been DMCA’d by a celebration claiming to be Video games Workshop. Now, we will verify that it was certainly Video games Workshop that filed the Void Warfare DMCA as Tundra Interactive has informed us extra about this story, and the way Void Warfare is again up on Steam now.
After failing to speak with Tundra Interactive for every week, Video games Workshop lastly replied, and confirmed that the Void Warfare 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 identify given the Firefly character with the identical identify. Tundra Interactive explains what challenge Video games Workshop had with Void Warfare:
They stated their concern was restricted to a particular shot from one of many trailers on the shop web page, arguing that sure components may create the mistaken impression that Void Warfare 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 Warfare was unique work created by their artists. Regardless of that, within the aim of a quick decision, they’ve eliminated the story trailer that had the offending picture. With that executed, they have been in a position to get the sport again up on Steam. Tundra Interactive acknowledged, “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 will lastly ship correct translations.” saying that new variations of the trailer might come.
It’s potential to view the trailer through 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, courting 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 concerning whether or not they had filed the DMCA towards 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 Warfare is obtainable on Steam and likewise on Itch.Io, which can even present a Steam key.
