TVGB: It's not often that an independent amateur developer attempts to remake a classic game all by himself, so when we found out about Jerrel Dulay we were more than a little intrigued. If you didn't hear by now, Dulay is creating a three dimensional version of the classic Game Boy title, The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening. Not content to just remake an entire 2-D world in 3-D, Dulay promises to add extra dungeons and items to make this an almost entirely fresh Zelda experience. After hearing about his grand scheme, we couldn't help but wonder what the finished project, The Legend of Zelda: Ballad of the Wind Fish would feel like.
Darryl Linington from Notebookheck writes: "Keebmon is a crowdfunded foldable workstation concept that combines a Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 PC, a 13-inch ultrawide touchscreen, and a low-profile mechanical keyboard in a single aluminum device."
bbno$ has temporarily shut down his website after receiving a legal notice from Blizzard Entertainment related to Diablo-themed content.
Filing a false DMCA claim costs nothing, requires no proof, and can destroy an indie game's launch in minutes. Fighting back can cost tens of thousands of dollars and take weeks (if you can afford it at all).
Copyright is copyright. DMCA is a good thing that protects creators IP., revenue and usage. and you can absolutely appeal a wrongful DMCA takedown. It’s happened to me. Was easily resolved.
it's a good thing, but it's also long been reported, across a variety of industries and websites, that currently the system is ripe for and full of abuses. From fair use strikes, to matters like the one reported in this article. It's clear the law needs some tooth to punish bad actors and that parameters need to be set in how reports are filed; ie human review of said content and not some AI bot false flagging stuff. As is the system is far to easily abused by those who have motive to suppress and flag content they have no business or right to.
Until there's genuine consequences for this type of abuse, it'll keep happening across all media. DMCA is in principle a good thing, but it needs an overhaul.
