Will Sony ever launch a remake or remaster of Bloodborne, the Darkish Souls successor that grew to become one in every of our favourite video games of 2015? Even Sony’s former video games chief isn’t certain — however that isn’t stopping Sony’s copyright enforcers from shutting down enjoyable in the intervening time. Final week, it axed the 60fps mod that allow the sport lastly run easily, and now it’s killed the fan-made “Bloodborne PSX” demake that reimagined Bloodborne as a block recreation for the unique 1995 PlayStation.
Right here’s a duplicate of the copyright takedown discover for posterity; it claims that Walther is partaking in “digital piracy.”
It’s not stunning that Sony wouldn’t need Walther to advertise her work utilizing its copyrighted names, and the corporate’s nearly actually inside its rights to attend a couple of years earlier than doing so. What’s stunning is that Sony wanted an enforcer within the first place; Walther was glad to vary her different “Bloodborne Kart” recreation to “Nightmare Kart” after Sony merely reached out and requested her.
However perhaps that’s as a result of MarkScan is enjoying whack-a-mole on Sony’s behalf. MarkScan was additionally the one behind the Bloodborne 60fps mod takedown, says mod creator Lance McDonald, and it additionally took down one in every of Walther’s YouTube movies about Bloodborne PSX with a copyright declare.
MarkScan submits hundreds of thousands upon hundreds of thousands of URL takedown requests on behalf of Sony, Amazon, Netflix, Crunchyroll, Novi Digital Leisure and extra, in response to a Google transparency report; Google winds up eradicating round 47 p.c of them.
Why go after these movies now? That’s what I’d wish to know. Sony did get our hopes up by placing Bloodborne on the very finish of its thirtieth Anniversary thank-you video in December with the phrases “It’s about persistence” — might or not it’s a coded message to followers that they should carry on ready?
Right here’s hoping this isn’t the start of a “demake” purge, as they’re a pleasant and artistic strategy to remix video games; I doubt they considerably scale back the demand for true remakes.
