A couple of weeks ago, Drew Koehler, host of Hardcore Christian Gamer podcast, got a karaoke track of Neil Diamond's "Hello Again" and made a parody called "Halo Again". A listener of the podcast made a video using Halo footage, and the parody song and put it up on YouTube. Another listener sent an e-mail through a website to "Neil Diamond". A representative of Neil Diamond (or the artist himself which isn't confirmed yet) got that e-mail and did not appreciate the parody of the song. The information was given to Sony and the story unfolded from here:
"Sony just sent a Cease and Desist order to the Hardcore Christian Gamers Association for doing a parody of a song by Neil Diamond called 'Halo Again'.
The song did not use Neils Lyrics nor did it use his actual music yet the Cease and Desist order was posted and we were told to take down the video on YouTube as well."
A famous actor from Starship Troopers has showered praise on Helldivers 2 and said he is open to the idea of playing General Brasch.
Deliver Us Mars developer Keoken Interactive has laid off the majority of its staff after struggling to secure funding …
The industry model and standards and who's in place to approve/disapprove have changed ^ what Keoken is feeling now is much like the Mobile burst 15 years ago. Expect more to come out of your own finances. Investors are treating games like movies and now (thank$ a lot for involving yourself hollywood) only the big (and money blind) investors get involved, effectively killing a lot of content that would come out with proper non-gate-kept and/or with incentivized funding.
Sorry but i couldn't care less, Deliver us Mars was as woke game as they come, climate change disaster, all female cast plus only a comic relief indian guy (it takes only 5 minutes into the game for the main female character to say how smart she is compared to the guy), evil white guys, ugly females, then add generic gameplay and puzzles (how many times do you have to cut things with a laser for gods sake), you can't change anything in how the events develop so 0 agency in the story, sub par graphics even while using UE4. So well, go woke go broke, that's how it works.
That stinks but with a 68 average critic rating on their games probably made it difficult for people to invest considering there is a bloat of games getting made these days.
Mat Piscatella of analyst firm Circana has revealed that the PS5 was the market leader in North America for both unit and dollar sales during not only March 2024, but the first quarter of the year as a whole.
Writing on Twitter, Piscatella revealed that spending for video game hardware in February 2024 dropped 32% in comparison to the same period last year, totalling $391 million. In addition, spending for PS5, Xbox Series X/S and Nintendo Switch each fell a minimum of 30% year-on-year.
What will happen when Sony announce a new Uncharted, Killzone, Tsushima or Horizon ..
Ah yes, Killzone that'll light the world on fire.
I'm joking but I do wish it were likely or more popular.
I'd rather an upgrade over some fps personally. Like a true rpg not some action game with a couple of rpg lite mechanics in it.
To be fair Sony usually know when to let a franchise go dormant, They gave Killzone over 6 different games and it never reached that summit. You end up in a situation like Microsoft if you just keep hammering out Halo and Gears and Forza etc. Microsoft should be smart enough to let them games go.
I thoroughly enjoy my open world games, but highest interest will always be the shooter genre lol it's just something about a good well crafted shooter with lore to it something like the Max payne series
But PS5 and Switch still outsells XBOX embarrassingly even with overall consoles sales decline.
Because "parody" happens to be one of the few key areas that are exempted from copyright laws. Parody, like a criticism and review using a copyright material, is protected under the "Fair Use" doctrine. You can legally take a copyrighted material and make a parody out of it.
This kind of case has gone all the way to the Supreme Court before. See Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music, Inc. (1994), in which the United States Supreme Court reached the unequivocal conclusion that a parody falls within the scope of the fair-use defense.
If Sony wants to play tough, Sony will just end up losing in court for this one.
The title is hilarious! But nice find.
Sony doesn't have a leg to stand on here. If you want examples of the sort of things that can be done in the way of a parody, just fire up a Weird Al or a Paul Shanklin CD.
People have tried to stop parodies of music and video for decades, and they have all, every one, lost in court.
Sony must know they will lose on this one but they still go after it... Sony must be seriously ticked off by Halo to make such a stupid move.
sounds like neil diamond was the one who was really pissed, he just sicked SONY on them...
and yeah its a parody anyway so.....whats the point?