Up and coming fantasy extraction game Dark and Darker has been taken down from Steam following a cease and desist as well as DMCA claim by publisher Nexon. It's an apparent escalation of Nexon's existing dispute with Dark and Darker developer Ironmace around the game's development assets. Overnight, from March 24th into the 25th, assets and material from Dark and Darker's Steam page were removed, followed by its co-op and PvP servers going dark, and culminating with the removal of the game from steam's Store.
This follows the search earlier this month of Ironmace's offices, where police seized materials related to the game project. At the time Ironmace said that "absolutely no stolen assets or code were used to make our game" and that players should not worry, as "nothing was found." Clearly, Japanese-Korean game publishing giant Nexon disagrees, though as yet no legal details are forthcoming.
