Ars - "When nude images of Jodie Holmes, actress Ellen Page's character from Beyond: Two Souls, began appearing on the Internet a few weeks ago (courtesy of a repositioned shower-scene camera running on debug hardware) we thought the story was a little too tabloidy to cover."
DSOGaming writes: "Quantic Dream has just released Detroit: Become Human, Heavy Rain and Beyond: Two Souls on the PC, and has removed Denuvo from them."
Quantic Dream revealed the upcoming Steam Release of its games Detroit: Become Human, Beyond: Two Souls, and Heavy Rain coming "soon."
Sony is expanding their PC approach beyond (no pun intended) Epic Store realm.
Steam official pages:
Heavy Rain
https://store.steampowered....
Beyond: Two Souls
https://store.steampowered....
Detroit: Become Human
https://store.steampowered....
When the crazy Xbox fans completely falsify facts to meet their agenda it really just makes you question how desperate these people are and how brainwashed they’ve become.
I blame Sony, you can only take a beating for so long and Sony been laying the fist into them for three generations now.
BY GRANT TAYLOR: If there’s one thing I appreciate in gaming, it’s a strong female character. In recent years, we’ve seen countless women in games, ranging from fierce warriors to masters of the supernatural. These days, if a game doesn’t have a female lead, you at least have the choice to select one.
I’ve played so many games with brilliant female protagonists in the last decade. It was honestly difficult getting this list down to just five!
So, which of these characters rank the highest?
Hm...the only person who should be to blame is the modder that toy'd around too much. I'm sure the modder didn't intend for harm to happen so the idea of threatening lawsuits and such is barbarous. This whole thing is one of those "Oops, my bad" sort of deals and nothing more.
Law Student opinion (for whatever it's worth):
There will not be any liability imposed on the modder, and likely not even any on the sites which choose to publish the leaked images. Page may be able to secure some form of injunction which would slow the publication of the images, but any hope of that being effective is misplaced.
As the much as Sony or anyone else may want to make veiled legal threats at the pervy corners of the public, it's really just a matter of them wanting to cover their own butts. After all, the ultimate responsibility for any damages to Page's image (or emotional distress... or whatever she claims) will likely fall upon the shoulders of the entity which published the disc: Sony. Quantic would also be jointly liable for creating the content in question and including it on the disc - she would probably be able to obtain restitution damages for breach of her contract (because their programming actions exceeded the scope of the agreement, I'm sure).
At the end of the day, we as gamers have nothing to worry about. Legal liability will fall on the broad shoulders of Sony and Quantic, and there is a very high likelihood that we will see some massive settlement ($ Millions) between the parties within the next year or so. Should be interesting.
The way I see it is that the extent to which the Developer can use the Actors image is or should be clearly outlined in the contract.
I am guessing, just being logical here, that this whole story is really about her not being informed that in the contract there was a piece that allowed a full nude body render to be made, or that in fact the contract did not allow a nude render.
If for example the Devs overstepped the boundries set by the contract than she has every right to demand that they remove it, or sue the company.
The person reponsible for the handling of them.
Removing her nude parts would only make her model more realistic, so lawsuit either way.