Our latest coverage of Dark and Darker.
Dark and Darker is being scaled down as Ironmace Games decides to scrap its multi-class feature for the time being. The first iteration of the feature apparently didn’t do too well in practice and has been put on the backburner just over a month after it was rolled out onto the PvPvE dungeon extraction game’s live early access build. “In [...]
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Dark and Darker won’t be coming back to Steam anytime soon due to the ongoing copyright complaint against it, but Epic Games seems to have no such qualms in adding the controversial dungeon extraction game to its storefront. The game’s Epic Games Store page is now live in preparation for its launch on the platform and possibly to other storefronts [...]
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Dark and Darker may soon be making its way back to Steam as the South Korean court dismisses Nexon’s motion for a preliminary injunction as part of its copyright infringement lawsuit against the game’s developer, Ironmace. This DOES NOT mean that the lawsuit has been settled, just one of victory, albiet a small one, for Iron Mace. Nexon had asked [...]
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Dark and Darker players are probably used to the fact that they’ll lose all of their items and gear every few months or so as scheduled server wipes are a mainstay of the early access medieval fantasy extraction game. In fact, the servers have already been wiped twice in as many months. Players looking forward to at least a few [...]
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Nexon’s copyright complaint against Dark and Darker might have just hit a big bump in the road. The game’s developer, Ironmace, recently entered into a licensing agreement with a different South Korean publisher in the form of Krafton to bring the battle royale dungeon crawler to mobile devices. “Drawing from its expertise in transforming global gaming IPs for mobile audiences, [...]
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While the long running Nexon vs Iron Mace legal drama isn't over, Iron Mace won a big victory yesterday when Nexon's lawsuit against them was dismissed on grounds of "forum non conveniens." Many news outlets incorrectly reported that the judge dismissed Nexon's lawsuit on the grounds that they couldn't prove copyright infringement, but in reality the court didn't even consider [...]
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Despite Ironmace’s ongoing copyright battle with Nexon, the studio has gone ahead and launched Dark and Darker into early access. Rather than wait for the game to be reinstated on Steam, the studio has partnered with Chaf Games to release the game on their platform while selling premium currency and founder’s packs through its own storefront. “We want to address [...]
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When Dark and Darker developer Ironmace got slapped with a DMCA complaint late last month, the studio assured the upcoming dungeon crawler’s community that there was nothing to worry about. Not only has the game been kicked off Steam and is facing a lawsuit over allegedly swiped code, but it's now dealing with a problematic alpha playtest. The playtest is [...]
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Nexon has taken its ongoing copyright dispute with Dark and Darker developer Ironmace to court as it officially files a copyright infringement lawsuit against its fellow South Korean studio. The lawsuit makes the same accusations as its earlier copyright complaint which claims that Ironmace stole codes and assets from a scrapped Nexon game codenamed Project P3 for use in their [...]
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Ironmace isn’t backing down from its legal fight against Nexon and has found a way around it’s de-listing from Steam. Following Nexon’s copyright complaint, the studio is going to “Plan Z” and will be releasing Dark and Darker’s fifth alpha playtest via torrent. “Due to our current situation, we must be careful,” said Ironmace. “Rest assured that we are working [...]
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