Developer Steals Assets from Multiple Games

[CSN NewsBot]

A small, 3-man development company, Majestic Studios, was found to have ripped a number of assets from countless other titles including Oblivion, Silent Hill, and World of Warcraft. The game, Limbo of the Lost (yes it's a Geocities URL and isn't guranteed to work), began back in 1995, was put on hold and then later brought back in 2002. The title was finally released this May, a full two years after Oblivion hit the stores.



Shacknews has some of the gritty details and images comparing the game to others. Included in the games that had content ripped are:

• Unreal Tournament 2003 and 2004
  
  
• The Silent Hill series
  
  
• Black & White 2
  
  
• Diablo 2
  
  
• Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines
  
  
• The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind
  
  
• The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
  
  
• World of Warcraft
  
  
• Return to Castle Wolfenstein
  
  
• Thief: Deadly Shadows
  
  
• Painkiller
  
  
• Spawn (the film)

Limbo (left) vs. Oblivion (right)

More screenshot comparisons can also be found at GamePlasma.

[-:Nighthawk:-]

Whether you feel that "intellectual property theft" is really theft or not, you have to admit this is flat out dumb.



You might as well go pirate a bunch of MP3s and include them as the soundtrack of the game while you're at it... did they seriously expect they wouldn't get caught?

[meowmeow]

It's a retarded article, please don't waste your time in reading that filth at ShackNews.. pixelated lands looking like other pixelated lands.. big fucking-whoop-dee-doo deal.

[BUveed]

Wow, geocities is very 1999.

[skankuser]

They're innocent. Those pictures don't resemble a god damn bit.

[Zips]

Wow, I really do hope meow and skank are being facetious or if they're really that blind.

[skankuser]

Zips wrote..

Wow, I really do hope meow and skank are being facetious or if they're really that blind.

What do you thinksa Zipsa?

[Zips]

It's so incredibly hard to tell with you guys some times, I choose not to guess any more.

[diamon12]

"Shacknews has some of the some of the gritty details and images"



2x some of the

[Linux]

Some people are just dirt in the world.... Atleast as permissions and don't jack stuff from other people, it retarded stuff like this...



Anywho it is dumb and well I hope these people get ripped a new one for it.

[Sintra]

Nice ripoff.



Wait, how come nobody actually congratulated the guys?

[ukHazard]

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/?page_id=1909



Other scenes from the game.

[skankuser]

ukHazard wrote..

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/?page_id=1909



Other scenes from the game.

About as funny as children being eaten by sharks.

[magicalpoop]

LOL zips , don't worry. But I love how you posted this. No but seriously guys, there's almost a 1:1 copy ..look at the torches/lighting/arcs/balcony/etc..

[ukHazard]

skankuser wrote..

About as funny as children being eaten by sharks.

Precisely!