Now, as reported by GamesRadar, Ironmace's lawyers have responded to the accusations from Nexon, having written a letter to Valve disputing the DMCA notice that removed the game from Steam.

The Seoul Central District Court ordered Ironmace to pay Nexon 8.5 billion won ($5.86 million) for leaking trade secrets but ruled that the Dark and Darker developer had not violated copyright law ...

Screenshots of the canceled P3 project do look similar to Dark and Darker, but Ironmace states that the assets, code, and game design documents used in the PvP-focused dungeon crawler were either ...

Ironmace, the Korean developer behind upcoming looter Dark and Darker, has used ChatGPT to try and prove it hasn't infringed any copyright claims. This follows an accusation from Nexon, another ...

Essentially, Nexon believes that Ironmace stole code from the company and is using it to build Dark and Darker. These concerns stem from the fact that Nexon was previously working on a game ...

Dark And Darker developer Ironmace has pushed back its Early Access launch "a bit" amid an ongoing legal dispute that's kept it off Steam. By Steven T. Wright on May 9, 2023 at 8:08AM PDT ...

Since then, Ironmace was served a cease and desist letter and DMCA takedown by Nexon, something the developer said is "based on distorted claims". As a result, Dark and Darker was removed from Steam.

Source: Ironmace Games “We’ve been watching Dark and Darker’s potential and distinct creativity with great interest,” said Rafael Lim, Senior Head of Publishing at Krafton.

Ironmace posted an announcement on the Dark and Darker Steam page on Monday to confirm that the third alpha playtest had officially come to an end. In that same announcement, the developers ...

Original story, August 25, 2023:Krafton has acquired the rights to the mobile version of Ironmace's Dark and Darker. The PUBG publisher intends to use its expertise to bring the RPG to mobile game ...