{"id":455274,"date":"2024-01-26T17:20:29","date_gmt":"2024-01-26T23:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/?p=455274"},"modified":"2024-01-26T17:20:35","modified_gmt":"2024-01-26T23:20:35","slug":"after-warning-from-sony-bloodborne-kart-is-dropping-references-to-the-brand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/after-warning-from-sony-bloodborne-kart-is-dropping-references-to-the-brand\/","title":{"rendered":"After warning from Sony, Bloodborne Kart is dropping references to the brand"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cWHELP. IT HAPPENED,\u201d begins <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/b0tster\/status\/1750995361353842790?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the tweet from<\/a> Lilith Walther (b0tster on Twitter), one of the developers behind <em>Bloodborne Kart<\/em>, a fanmade spin-off of the popular FromSoftware game. Sony has allegedly contacted them requesting the removal of copyrighted content from the game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cLong story short I need to scrub the branding off of what was previously known as <em>Bloodborne Kart<\/em>, which we will do. But that requires a short delay,\u201d they continue. However, they add that \u201cthe game is still coming out! It&#8217;ll just look slightly different.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">WHELP. IT HAPPENED<br><br>Sony contacted me \ud83e\udee3<br><br>Long story short I need to scrub the branding off of what was previously known as Bloodborne Kart, which we will do. But that requires a short delay.<br><br>Don&#39;t worry, the game is still coming out! It&#39;ll just look slightly different \ud83d\udc99<\/p>&mdash; \ud83e\ude84\ud83d\udcab PSX Bunlith\ud83d\udc30\ud83c\udff3\ufe0f\u200d\u26a7\ufe0f BLM ACAB \ud83c\uddf5\ud83c\uddf8 (@b0tster) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/b0tster\/status\/1750995361353842790?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 26, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s not entirely surprising since the <em>Bloodborne Kart<\/em> directly references the title of the 2015 PS4 game and includes characters from it. The game is a \u201cmeme made real,\u201d originating from an April Fool\u2019s Day Tweet back in 2021. What is surprising is that it has taken so long, as the game has been in open development for quite some time now. It\u2019s perhaps because, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/fan-made-bloodborne-kart-has-locked-in-a-release-date-for-january-2024\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">few months ago<\/a>, it was given the release date of January 31, which is next week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course, the developers were planning to release the game for free, but it\u2019s still infringing on the company\u2019s copyright. It\u2019s honestly not at all surprising, which Lilith states themself in another tweet, saying, \u201cLike I&#8217;ve said in multiple interviews, we were all expecting this to happen so we could be pleasantly surprised if it didn&#8217;t.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s definitely a bummer, and I feel bad for the development team who were looking forward to putting their creation in the hands of fans, but they\u2019re taking it in stride. Lilith says, \u201cTurning this into an original game that we have full creative control over is kind of exciting. This is a fan game no more!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lilith says that they are current uncertain of what the new release date will be for the rebranded <em>Bloodborne Kart<\/em>, but they hope to share news as soon as possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hit the brakes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":422706,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"article_type":"","ub_ctt_via":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[22473,20010,478],"internal-label":[24255],"invoiceable_action":[23730],"article_type":[23116],"coauthors":[{"id":17,"display_name":"Zoey Handley","user_nicename":"adzuken"}],"acf":[],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/bloodborne-kart-with-cleric-beast.webp?fit=1200%2C675","author_info":{"display_name":"Zoey Handley","author_link":"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/author\/adzuken\/"},"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/bloodborne-kart-with-cleric-beast.webp?fit=1200%2C675","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455274"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=455274"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":455277,"href":"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455274\/revisions\/455277"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/422706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455274"},{"taxonomy":"internal-label","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/internal-label?post=455274"},{"taxonomy":"invoiceable_action","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/invoiceable_action?post=455274"},{"taxonomy":"article_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article_type?post=455274"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=455274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}