{"id":9373,"date":"2011-01-13T11:58:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-13T09:58:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"splosion-man-dev-accuses-capcom-of-plagiarism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/9373-splosion-man-dev-accuses-capcom-of-plagiarism","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Splosion Man dev accuses Capcom of plagiarism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Twisted Pixel&rsquo;s Mike Henry has lamented Capcom&rsquo;s apparently blatant copying of their Xbox LIVE Arcade hit &lsquo;Splosion Man.<\/p>\n<p>The Capcom title in question is MaXplosion, and it sells over on the Apple App Store.<\/p>\n<p>Griping via Twitter, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/mikehasnoluck\/status\/24945224337850369\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Twitter\">Henry said<\/a> &#8220;[The] MaXplosion gameplay video makes me sad. If you&#8217;re going to outright steal a game, you should at least understand what makes it fun. Borrowing is great. Hell, we do it all the time. But that game is a complete theft.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Twisted Pixel co-founder <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/mrwilford\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Twitter\">Michael Wilford<\/a> also chimed in by revealing that the idea for &lsquo;Splosion Man had actually been pitched to Capcom in the first place. He takes a swipe at Capcom by saying Twisted Pixel will just have to make a better iPhone game than them, which &ldquo;shouldn&rsquo;t be hard.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I&#8217;ll always love Capcom [because] of what they brought to my childhood, but WTF have they turned into? First they lose Inafune, now this,&#8221; said Wilford.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamesindustry.biz\/articles\/2011-01-12-capcom-accused-of-plagiarism-by-xbla-dev\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"GameIndustry.biz\">GameIndustry.biz<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Related Articles:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/8329-Keiji-Inafune-leaves-Capcom.html\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Keiji Inafune leaves Capcom\">Keiji Inafune leaves Capcom<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twisted Pixel thinks that Capcom stole their game idea<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}