Updated October 23: Scarface: The World is Yours has vanished from both storefronts, alongside a community statement from EC Digital that has been preserved by eagle-eyed fans. Click here to jump to the new information.
The year is 2025, and there's no better indication that we live in an increasingly meaningless and absurdist hellscape than the fact I read the news "They're re-releasing a 2006 videogame based on a 1984 movie, but with upscaled graphics, but also they might have just bundled mods into it" and thought anything other than "Sure, why not, pile it on".
In fairness, Scarface: The World is Yours achieved some solid commercial and critical success—it was developed by Radical Entertainment, the auteurs behind The Simpsons: Hit & Run three years prior and, later on, the Prototype games. There were even plans for a sequel, though that got canned in 2009.
EC Digital pulls game from storefronts
A mere day has passed since this article's initial publishing, and already the Scarface: The World is Yours listings have vanished without a trace. Both the Steam and Epic Games Store pages have been taken down, and a community announcement, preserved here by Wario64, has similarly been swept out of existence.
"We've recently entered urgent discussions with multiple parties concerning the project's status," writes mystery publisher EC Digital, "After careful consideration, we believe that temporarily hiding the store page is the most appropriate step forward, and we've already begun coordinating with Valve to make that happen shortly.
"The current page was initially intended as a placeholder while we worked through ongoing licensing and technical matters. Unfortunately, the unintended release of certain builds on other platforms caused unexpected complications and concerns. Because of that, we feel it's necessary to pause and reevaluate."
Now I'm no expert on copyright law, but I'm not entirely sure that you get to make store pages saying 'we're making a remake!' while your licensing process is still underway. Let alone be in a position to release an under finished build that's just two mods slapped to a 2006 undercarriage.
Speaking of, one of those mod makers, Silent, has clarified on X that EC Digital did try to reach out to them. They write that "this stunt likely reduced their chances of approval from 'nearly 0' to 'you'll be lucky if you can enter the US soil after this'." Oof.
You must confirm your public display name before commenting
Please logout and then login again, you will then be prompted to enter your display name.
