Following his trial for defamation of the families of the children and school staff killed in the Sandy Hook massacre, conspiracy theorist Alex Jones is using Valve Corp.’s Steam, the world’s largest digital distribution platform for PC games, to sell an Infowars-themed video game. Jones claims to have earned hundreds of thousands in revenue from the video game, yet he has refused to pay the Sandy Hook families. Alex Jones: NWO Wars also mirrors and cartoonishly repackages the conspiracy theorist’s regularly violent, hateful rhetoric despite the platform’s policies against hate speech.

  • Ashen44@lemmy.ca
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    10 months ago

    No, someone was developing a fan demake of a valve game for the Nintendo 64, and since the tools to develop a game for the Nintendo 64 aren’t legally available and it’s being used for valve’s IP then nintendo would be able to go after valve.

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      10 months ago

      Thats a really silly take IMO. How could Nintendo goes after valve (a third party).

      It sounds like Portal 64 would simply have legal claims for both Valve and Nintendo against the developer.

      • Schmidtster@lemmynsfw.com
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        10 months ago

        The issue is the dev asked Valve for permission, so if they give the go ahead Nintendo has a case that valve condoned and allowed it.

        If the dev used the open source tools it wouldn’t matter, they used the proprietary Nintendo tools that aren’t publicly available.