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River City Ransom: Underground removed from Steam

It's all to do with a legal dispute.

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The charming beat 'em up River City Ransom: Underground has been removed from Steam because of an ongoing legal dispute regarding the music. It's the composer Alex Mauer who claims her music is in the game without the developers having secured the rights, something she has done against another game she was involved with (Starr Mazer) and YouTube videos as well.

On the Steam forums, the developers have left a statement regarding this saying:

"Alex Mauer produced, in collaboration with others, works for RCRU as a subcontractor, and Conatus believes that it possesses the legal right to use those collaborative works in the game."

Mauer herself says in a comment to Destructoid that "Conatus never got my written permission to use my music in the game. As far as I know, they have Disasterpeace's [one of the game's composers] signature and are trying to act like that alone is enough to have secured rights."

We'll see who wins this case in the end, but a reasonable guess is that the game will be back on Steam sooner rather than later. Are you sad to see it go?

River City Ransom: Underground

Thanks ,Ars Technica.

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