In recent times game studio Digital Homicide have become more famous for the lawsuits they've been issuing than having good games (which they don't). Last year they served one against outspoken critic Jim Sterling for 'libel and slander' asking for a $10 million settlement. Then about a week ago they issued another one, this time against 100 Steam users for 'stalking harassment and criminal impersonation'. The only issue is that they only had access to the usernames of these users, so they served Valve with a subpoena for the identities of those users.
And how did Valve respond? By removing all traces of Digital Homicide's games, both from the Store and from Greenlight.
To be fair, we can't say that we're surprised that Valve finally got fed up of Digital Homicide's bullshit. They were asking for around $18 million in 'damages' in the lawsuit filed with an Arizona Courthouse, with co-founder James Romine being the one responsible for it. The users in question were involved with a Steam group called "Digital Homicides" and formerly "Poop Games", which described itself as a "a dedicated consumer-advocacy group and censorship safe haven." This was in light of Digital Homicide's afore-mentioned incident with Sterling a few months back.
Valve's response has hit all eighteen of the studio's available games in the Store, and according to SteamDB's history here more than thirty titles that were in Greenlight have been canned. A statement issued by Doug Lombardi, Valve's communications director simply said: "Valve has stopped doing business with Digital Homicide for being hostile to Steam customers."
Seems like a little taste of karma has finally hit. We'll keep you updated on developments, because given the past of this studio there's bound to be some.
