It feels like a nasty state of affairs throughout.
GOG has made a shock announcement, that itself opens as much as some surprisingly unhappy information.
GOG has revealed that Playdead’s video games Limbo and Inside are getting delisted this week. Moderator n_wolf6 made this announcement on the GOG discussion board:
Hello everybody,
I’m sorry to tell you that Limbo and Inside can be faraway from our retailer on July seventeenth, 2025, 3 PM CEST.
We don’t have any info on reductions but.
Want I may have higher information for you, however seize it whereas it’s nonetheless right here!
We are able to affirm that Inside is on 90 % low cost whereas Limbo is just not on sale. Whereas GOG and Playdead didn’t present an official cause for this delisting, there’s an ongoing state of affairs surrounding the studio that appears prefer it might be the rationale that is taking place.
Playdead was based in 2006 by Amt Jensen, a former artist at I/O Interactive, and Dino Patti, a former developer at Sirius Games. Each Limbo and Inside are critically acclaimed impartial video games, platformers with a minimalist monochromatic aesthetic that tells its story with none spoken phrase. Each are haunting horror video games that additionally characteristic a complicated physics engine.
Inside was launched in 2016, and shortly after, there was a falling out between Jensen and Patti. Jensen initially resigned as artistic director of Playdead, however the state of affairs exacerbated when Patti additionally took this imply he would go away the corporate. This misunderstanding led to an intervention from the Danish Enterprise Authority. When the mud settled, Patti agreed to promote his shares for 50 million Danish kroner and be the one to go away the corporate.
Final month, Patti revealed that Jensen and Playdead are suing him. Playdead alleges that Patti is infringing on their IPs with the knowledge and content material he has shared to elucidate that he helped make Limbo and Inside. The letter Playdead despatched Patti says this:
We wish to repeat and warning that your continued use of Playdead’s property and any disclosure and exploitation of inside data about Playdead for industrial functions is infringing and constitutes breach of confidentiality clauses.
By offering recipients with core insights to the method of growing Limbo, you might be falsely giving the impression that you just performed a big function, together with a artistic function, within the improvement of the sport.
Whatever the deserves of Playdead’s claims, the state of affairs now could put the authorship and IP rights of the 2 video games into query. Whereas these are circumstantial, pending authorized motion could have compelled Playdead to delist the video games.
GOG has confirmed their dedication to maintain video games out there to its customers even after delisting, so in the event you wished DRM-free variations of those video games, you’ll wish to get them from GOG now.
