Games Workshop had a Warhammer FTL clone pulled from Steam over some overly Space Marine-esque shoulderpads

Void War present backmost online pursuing DMCA takedown

Last twelvemonth I covered the demo for Void War, robotically describing it arsenic FTL meets Warhammer 40,000, due to the fact that that is what it is, and sometimes, you person to telephone a Spade Marine a Spade Marine (I did bask the demo, arsenic flagrantly combinatory arsenic the crippled whitethorn be).

Void War's creation absorption has seemingly proven a small excessively acquainted successful places for Games Workshop’s liking. Developers Tundra Interactive study that the Warhammer steadfast issued a Digital Millennium Copyright Act takedown announcement earlier this year, which led to their crippled being temporarily removed from Steam.

Initially, it was thought that the DMCA announcement was a nonsense assertion akin to that levelled astatine No Players Online, the DMCA strategy being perilously casual to abuse. It was issued by idiosyncratic called Mal Reynolds, and Mal Reynolds is besides the sanction of Nathan Fillion’s quality successful Firefly. Suspicious indeed. Tundra person present spoken with Games Workshop, however, and confirmed the claim’s authenticity, though they've yet to wide up the accusation present that interplanetary gunslinger Mal Reynolds is secretly a copyright lawyer.

Image credit: Tundra Interactive / Eurogamer

According to the developers, Games Workshop's inquisitors were peculiarly irked by the plan of immoderate shoulderpads successful 1 of the featured trailers, referred to successful correspondence arsenic "oversized convex enarthrosis pads with a metallic rim". Find a surface of the armour astatine involvement successful the vicinity of this paragraph. Tundra importune that those convex shoulderpads are each their ain work, but accidental they’ve removed the trailer anyhow to debar disruption.

"All of the artwork successful the trailer is archetypal enactment created by our artists,” reads a connection to IGN. “While we disagree with their assessment, the simplest mode to get the crippled backmost up and debar getting bogged down successful DMCA process was to region that trailer and determination on. We whitethorn re-upload an updated mentation aboriginal aft we find clip to set that shot, but for present our precedence is shipping contented and finishing multi-language font enactment truthful we tin yet present due translations."

As ever with these things, it is imaginable to decry however companies with monolithic ineligible teams portion the ankles of smaller autarkic developers, portion besides acknowledging that the crippled successful question is simply a screaming rip-off, nevertheless entertaining.

That aside, I could perfectly ideate Warhammer 40,000's Imperium launching a crusade successful effect to copyright infringement. Those Chaos Space Marines are naught but tepid plagiarists. You can’t conscionable glue immoderate novelty Halloween fingers and a rug to your Primarch armour and accidental you’ve invented the wheel, Horus! Nathon Fillion is connected his mode implicit with a subpoena.