It was two weeks in the past after we reported that Void Battle had been DMCA’d by a celebration claiming to be Video games Workshop. Now, we are able to affirm that it was certainly Video games Workshop that filed the Void Battle DMCA as Tundra Interactive has advised us extra about this story, and the way Void Battle 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 Battle DMCA was on their behalf. That signifies 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 problem Video games Workshop had with Void Battle:
They mentioned 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 Battle is related to Video games Workshop, particularly what they described as “the outsized convex shoulder pads with a metallic rim.”
Tundra Interactive emphasizes that every one the paintings within the trailer for Void Battle was authentic 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 achieved, they had been capable of get the sport again up on Steam. Tundra Interactive acknowledged, “We could 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 could 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 making an attempt to trademark the time period Area 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 towards Tundra Interactive.
Hopefully, all’s effectively that ends effectively and Tundra Interactive can get again to creating their sport with out additional authorized hurdles. Void Battle is obtainable on Steam and likewise on Itch.Io, which may even present a Steam key.
