Ion Maiden, the old-school first-person shooter developed by Voidpoint and published by 3D Realms and 1C Entertainment, blasts new content onto Steam Early Access today.
CG writes: The creators of the infamous and classic first person shooter of yore Duke Nukem, 3D Realms team-up with Voidpoint. The Build Engine makes a return in the form of Ion Fury (previously known as Ion Maiden). Law suits from aged rockers aside, Ion Fury steps back in time to offer a heady mix of fast-paced visceral visuals amongst a first person shooter back-drop. The bottom line is, if you liked Duke Nukem 3D then you’ll love this.
Sean @FG: This week on the Finger Guns Podcast, Paul, Greg and Sean talk about the recently announced Nintendo Switch Lite, we dig into the PC Engine Core Grafx mini console from Konami, and give impressions on New Star Manager on PS4, Blazing Chrome and Sairento VR on PSVR. We also talk about the odd lawsuit between Iron Maiden and 3D Realms as well as passing judgement on the Shenmue 3 Kickstarter and whether backers should be getting a season pass.
Finally, we get to grips with Paul and Greg’s video game movie knowledge with this weeks trivia challenge.
From Blabbermouth: "According to The Daily Beast, IRON MAIDEN has filed a $2 million trademark infringement lawsuit against a video game developer behind the game called "Ion Maiden". The lawsuit, filed Tuesday by the band's holding company, Iron Maiden Holdings Limited, accuses entertainment company 3D Realms of creating "confusion among consumers."
As a Maiden fan, I watched the trailer and there are alot of blatant nods to the band and the themes of their music, the game logo is almost identical, if it were outlined in red it would look misspelled as the bands name....the main character is Shelly Harrison, the bass player in the band is Steve Harris....I mean cmon, dont be so blatant....
Maiden fan here as well, but dont they have enough money already? I mean, they're part of pop culture now, they have to accept that people will pay homage to them in different ways. Ion Maiden is a joke, a humoristic game, nothing more.
It's probably not about the money, but if you don't defend your trademarks you increase the risk losing them.
There’s more to iron maiden than just the band itself, it’s a business on its own. So yes, it should be protected.
@jeki
You don't think it's about the money? Come on, don't be so naive, it's always about the money.
That's the point of a trade mark so that these kinds of oh but we didn't know situations don't happen. They could have reached out to the band and asked permission or made a deal but they tried to be slick and now their studio is a world of shite. It's always about money but more than that it's about protecting their interest, you can't go around infringing on others peoples work change a few a things and call it original.
Doesn't seem that blatant to me, it's not the same font nor is it red like the band uses. This just reminds me of Metallica suing napster... yeah, they're supposed to be a hardcore metal band but beneath it all they're just money grubs.
Funny how so many were against Metallica for suing Napster. And yet none of those people were musicians and know what it's like to have your stuff stolen. If it's ok to steal music that someone paid lots of money to create, why not just walk into Best Buy and walk out with a TV citing that Best Buy are billionaires and have enough money?
It's Steve's band by the way. He also writes the majority of the songs.
Up the Irons!
And now look what they have achieved, major publicity.
3D realms has put them in the spot light, I'm sure iron maiden are going to benefit out of this without the need for a lawsuit.
Not that they need it.
The trooper is 1 of my favourites but you can't beat stair way to heaven. Led zeppelin
This just seems greedy and pathetic. NO customer is going to buy the game Ion Maiden thinking it's one of the Iron Maiden albums...
The lawsuit isn't about people being fooled into thinking it's one of their albums.
It's not about that, it's people thinking it's related to the band or related to them in any way. They probably could've gotten away with using the font, or the name "Ion Maiden," but not both.
Certainly looks fun, keep my eye on this.