Recently we posted about The Blocks Cometh, a Flash game that was stolen and ported to the iPhone without the developer's permission. Apple seemed to do nothing about it, so Destructoid kicked up a stink, which was then noticed and echoed by the folk at Reddit. And guess what ... it actually worked!
"The shitstorm cometh on the internet and someone at apple caught wind of it. The Blocks Cometh is no longer in the app store," says Halfbot's Derek Laufman. "Now I still haven't heard anything from Apple on the matter so it's hard to say if this is a permanent take down or just a temp one while they do their legal process. Anyways it's definitely a victory in our book!"
Derek extended his thanks to the Destructoid community and everybody else who raised awareness about the IP theft. It seems that stomping your feet and kicking up a fuss actually works sometimes and I couldn't be more pleased.
Good things happened and gamers helped make it so! Great stuff!
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7:00 AM on 01.23.2011 | 
Also, can we band together for a new Chrono game while we're at it?
I know it's happened ever since we can remember, but the difference in pricing over the 3DS is insanse, over $100 difference in the UK! We're used to paying $10 - $20 more for games but this is too much. Yet everyone sits by and lets it happen. Maybe if people did stand up for it once in a while and declare how disgusting it is that in the UK we're paying £230 compared to $250 in the US then we could get rid of region locking once and for all as lets be honest the only real reason it's in place is so that they can control prices.
Apart from being off topic, your pissing in the wind here.
People will buy it. Then they will charge that price anyway.
Umad, bro?
I agree its a different situation, but you'd be crazy to think Capcom Mobile hadn't at least heard of 'Splosion Man, and the premise (a volatile fire creature escaping from a laboratory).
It's way too similar and coincidental. While it's not directly lifting graphical assets, the plot and premise are the exact same.
Uh, the assets they used ARE NOT original. They literally copied the background of the title screen and pasted it into their own game. Thats pretty blatant theft.
They stole it from Avalanche, those whiny bastards.