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But ongoing legal issues mean no free upgrade. Updated on 28 April 2021 Frogwares has released an enhanced Xbox Series X/S version of its Lovecraft-inspired open-world detective adventure The Sinking City, although ongoing legal tussles mean there's no free upgrade for existing owners on Xbox One. The Sinking City, if it's so far managed to pass you by, is set in the 1920s and tells the story of Charles Reed, a private investigator plagued by hellish visions. Reed travels to the supernaturally flooded city of Oakmont, Massachusetts, in order to escape "th...

Wed, Mar 3rd 2021 7:56pm — Timothy Geigner Way back in early 2019, we wrote about an odd story with a game developer DMCAing its own game on Valve's Steam platform over a dispute with its publisher. The short version of the story is that the developer accused the publisher of ghosting out on royalty payments, so the takedown allowed the developer to wrestle back control of the game and put it back up themselves. Steam, which has a reputation of being far more friendly to publishers than developers, in this case actually helped the developer wade through getting control of its game.

04/03/211 The back and forth actions and statements between The Sinking City developer Frogwares and its original publisher Nacon (formerly Bigben Interactive) has continued. Following the delisting of The Sinking City from Steam, with Frogwares accusing Nacon of uploading a pirated copy of the game from GamesPlanet and then leaning on a DCMA request to have the game removed from the store, Nacon has issued a rebuttal of the broad accusations and some of the chain of events. – ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW – With Frogwares claiming that Nacon withheld or were late with payments through developm...

Thursday, February 18, 2021 Most developers and publishers like to have plenty of time to advertise that their games are coming to new platforms. Frogwares prefers the stealth-drop method. After a PS5 version of The Sinking City mysteriously appeared on the PlayStation Store in some regions, developer Frogwares has now confirmed this version of the game will be released tomorrow. Unfortunately PS4 players won’t be getting a free update due to the next-gen version being self-published by Frogwares.. The PlayStation 5 version has received several upgrades. These include improved graphics wit...