Valve has removed the poorly received shooting game "Art of Stealth" from the Steam marketplace after they caught the developer posting fake reviews for the title. The game's developer has been trashing the negative reviews that "Art of Stealth" has been receiving for the past few days.
Valve made the announcement yesterday afternoon on the Steam community page. The game did manage to get some publicity, but not for the right reasons. Matan Cohen, the game's developer, picked a fight with YouTube personality Jim Sterling after the latter made some disparaging remarks about the game. In a video uploaded to his YouTube channel, Sterling described the game as being "absolutely, terrible rubbish." Sterling has been known to make reviews of bad games found on Steam and other platforms.
Cohen fired back and posted his own response to Sterling's criticism on the Steam community page. He says Sterling "has no respect to software engineers who learned programming in university for 5 years and work hard to create a good game." The team behind "Art of Stealth" have also filed a DMCA takedown request for Sterling's video.
Sterling claims he was sent legal threats by the "Art of Stealth" team and posted about it on his Twitter account. This would backfire on Cohen as many antagonistic members of the Steam community bashed him further.
This isn't the first time James Sterling has been threatened with legal action by a game developer. Last year, Kotaku reported that developer Digital Homicide sued Sterling for $10 million on charges of "assault, libel, and slander." The lawsuit went nowhere and Valve would eventually remove the developer's games from Steam. They are now planning to sue Valve. "Art of Stealth" is no longer available in the community marketplace on Steam, but users who have already downloaded the game prior to its removal can still keep their digital copies.
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