Nintendo has gone on another emulation-related DMCA spree, but this time the company's target is, uh, let me check my notes he🌼re… ah, pictures of Switch games.
is a site where users can upload custom images built for use in the Steam library. Many of the images take the form of alternate headers or box art for games that are already on Steam, so you can customize how those games appear in youꦰr library. But SteamGridDB is primarily used when you add a non-Steam game to your library - such as, for example, a console game you're playing through an emulator.
Switch emulators have gotten particularly robust over the years, and they've become particularly desirable since the launch of the Steam Deck - clearly, even somebody at Valve had been making use of a Switch emulator on the handh♎eld. Nintendo hasn't been happy about that fact, even been going after YouTube videos demonstr𝔍ating how to install ꦺSwitch emulators to the device.
Now, they've issued a DMCA takedown notice against SteamGrid🎃DB for images related to six Switc🌺h games: Pokemon Scarlet, Pokemon Violet, Splatoon 3, Xenoblade Chronicles 3, Super Mario Odyssey, and The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. The announcement was made on the site's (via ).
Some user🍎s are already attempting to the affected imag💃es, though it remains to be seen how long they'll remain in place. Others are goofy DMCA-friendly versions of the box art.
Again, SteamGridDB only hosts im🐼ages for you to import into your Steam library. The site does not host the ROM or ISO files you'd need to actually pirate a video game. The selection of games affected by the DMCA notice is pretty strange, too - there are hundreds, perhaps thousands of other Nintendo games represented on the site, many of them on Switch. It simply seems Nintendo is taking whatever strange, small steps it can to keep its biggest Switch games from being associated with Steam or the Steam Deck.
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Dustin Bailey joined the GamesRadar team as a Staff Writer in May 2022, and is currently based in Missouri. He's been covering games (with occasional dalliances in the worlds of anime and pro wrestling) since 2015, first as a freelancer, then as a news writer at PCGamesN for nearly five years. His love for games was sparked somewhere between Me𓆉tal Gear Solid 2 and Knights of the Old Republic, and these days you can usually find him splitting his entertainment time between retro gaming, the latest big action-adventure title, or a long haul in American Truck Simulator.
