Digital Homicide, the highly ridiculed video game publisher that threatened to sue many of the users who left negative reviews of its games on Steam, has closed its doors.
The company had attained a bad reputation after its bad games were brought to light by YouTube personality Jim Sterling, and later sued him. In response to these lawsuits, Valve removed all of the company’s games from its platform.
The company was infamous for pushing out half-finished, really bad games in bulk for the purpose of making money through the platform’s trading card system. Effectively, it flooded the Steam platform with what some might refer to as shovelware.
In a statement to TechRaptor, one of Digital Homicide’s founders stated that this move killed the company.
“As far as digital homicide? It’s destroyed. It’s been stomped into the ground from a thousand directions and use is discontinued. I’m going back into the work force,” said James Romine.
The same TechRaptor report discovered that the company was unable to further fund its lawsuits.