Dark and Darker developer Ironmace is now being sued by Nexon over "copyright infringement," in the latest update of this bumpy journey.
This comes from Escape from Tarkov streamer and content creator Onepeg, who shared that the lawsuit had been filed by Nexon last Friday (April 14), alleging copyright infringement over Dark and Darker. To catch you up to speed quickly, Dark and Darker was pulled from Steam last month due to a cease and desist from Nexon, as it believes that Ironmace Games has been using stolen assets and code to developer Dark and Darker. This belief comes from the fact that Ironmace's founder Terence Park, and another developer Ju-Hyun Choi previously worked at Nexon on an apparently similar fantasy game codenamed P3 between 2020-2021.
Nexon has accused Choi of stealing assets while working there, and that in turn Dark and Darker was developed with them. Now, thanks to Onepeg, it has become apparent that this has escalated to Nexon filing a lawsuit against Ironmace. According to the lawsuit, both Choi and Park would have signed a "one-year-non-compete clause," with Nexon as part of their employee agreement, which "prevents employees from working in the same line of business that could potentially infringe on Nexon's trade secrets, without Nexon's prior consent."