The Dark and Darker saga — a remarkably intense fight over whether an indie developer team stole ideas from their former employer in Korea — has reached the US court system with a lawsuit. As you might spot below, the allegations tread a fine line between actual intellectual property theft and simply copying ideas... so I hope a judge is ready to look at lots of video game concept art.
It’s been a long week after Texas and Washington issued conflicting rulings on the abortion-facilitating pill mifepristone, and the Supreme Court is offering a brief time-out while it considers the next move.
Wired has a good story about Texas’s attempt to make ISPs block abortion-related speech — something we’ve covered in the past.
“We’ve seen over and over in different contexts that platforms are vulnerable to censorship pressure because they’re afraid of being sued,” says Pinsof. “So it’s easier to take stuff down than it is to potentially open yourself up to liability.”
Remember the surreal beauty of Alejandro Jorodowsky’s Tron? Well, imagine the exact opposite of that. Complete with a step-by-step production guide from Vox’s Rebecca Jennings.
If you were worried about making time for Frictional’s new semi-open World War I survival horror game four days after the new Zelda installment... and two weeks after Redfall... and about three weeks after Star Wars Jedi: Survivor... then congratulations! The game has been moved back one week from May 16th to May 23rd. Now you’ve got lots of time to wrap all that up first.
My colleague Andrew Webster came up with this post title and I’m sharing it with all of you, just like Meta and NBC will now share 12 free months of ad-supported Peacock Premium if you buy a new Quest 2 or Quest Pro headset. Disclaimer: I cannot responsibly recommend buying a new headset just to watch Cocaine Bear in VR.
I love original-PlayStation-era demakes, and I can hardly think of a better candidate than space zombie dismemberment simulator Dead Space. This project from developer Fraser Brumley doesn’t seem as astonishingly elaborate as the 2022 Bloodborne demake, but its screenshots look just delightful and I can’t wait to check it out. Thanks to Free Game Planet for the heads-up.
[itch.io]
