Streets of Rage 2 on iPhone and iPod touch tomorrow, 14 April. But just days after the file was released on various download and torrent sites around the web, Sega has stamped down on its release and is trying to get the game pulled. In rather suspicious timing, Sega will release a port of 1993's This action game is now abandonware and is set in a fantasy, beat em up / brawler and fan made themes. In a 2007 news post, Valve said, "We're as eager to play it here as everyone else." In 2006, BoMbErGaMeS publishes Streets of Rage Remake on Windows. No surprises that benevolent PC publisher Valve has turned a blind eye to Black Mesa Source, an eternally-delayed shot-by-shot remake of the original Half Life in the new Source engine. Some studios are more lax on the subject than others. The developers of online Pokemon battler Pokenet got served with a cease and desist notice from Nintendo in 2010, and the same publisher killed off fan-made Zelda movie The Hero of Time the year before. Spending years on fan-made remakes and tie-ins is always risky business, legally. But it continues to re-release the original games, including an iPhone app in 2009. Sega hasn't released a new Streets of Rage game since the franchise's third installment in 1994. On the site's FAQ, Link says the crew even notified Sega, long before the game's release. Link and more than 20 collaborators have been toiling away at the game since 17 March 2003, and its lengthy, Herculean development has been widely publicised in the eight years since. The game's release wasn't a surprise, of course.
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