Another day, another Nintendo console emulator that has ceased operations. A developer at Switch emulator Ryujinx announced on its Discord that it’s shutting down.
The message, shared to X (formerly Twitter) by video game news aggregator Wario64, says that the lead developer on the project, known as “gdkchan,” was contacted by Nintendo and told to “stop working on the project, remove the organization and all related assets he’s in control of.” Nintendo also offered some sort of agreement, although the terms are unknown.
Apparently gdkchan didn’t reveal to at least developer “riperiperi,” who posted the statement, what he decided, but all download links have been scrubbed from the website. At the time of this writing, the Github directory has been archived and is now read-only.
“Thank you all for following us throughout the development,” riperiperi wrote. “I was able to learn a lot of really neat things about games that I love, enjoy them with renewed qualities and in unique circumstances, and I’m sure you all have experiences that are similarly special.” You can read the full statement below.
Looks like Ryujinx (Switch emulator) is dead pic.twitter.com/gE1qH30Axs
— Wario64 (@Wario64) October 1, 2024
Rumblings that something had happed to Ryujinx, an open-source Switch emulator written in C# that worked across Windows, macOS, and Linux, began Tuesday morning. Subreddit users noticed that the app stopped working, Github was returning an error, and any download links had vanished. Some theorized that the Github had been hacked or that there was a fixable issue, and other Discord messages seemed to confirm it wasn’t on account of Nintendo legal action.
Ryujinx isn’t the first Switch emulator to get taken down after Nintendo reached out. Competitor Yuzu settled with Nintendo in March, agreed to pay a sum of $2.4 million, and was shut down. Nintendo originally sued the developers for infringing on its copyright (or the DMCA) and for facilitating piracy of Tears of the Kingdom. Nintendo also recently sued the developer of open-world survival game Palworld for infringing on multiple patents, although it didn’t disclose what those patents were.
The Call of Duty franchise has held a special place in my heart ever since I played my first Black Ops game back in 2010. That game's campaign was something else, with twists and turns that culminated in a mind-blowing finale. We can all admit that compared to those older campaigns, the recent CODs have been lackluster at best, and a complete and utter disappointment at worst. The reboot of Modern Warfare did give me some hope, as the first two installments were actually quite good, but the third game left such a bad taste in my mouth that I wasn’t exactly expecting much from Modern Warfare 4.
After recently finishing the campaign, I can say that this installment is nothing like the recent releases and instead feels closer to the franchise’s roots. For the first time in a long while, the campaign comes across as well-crafted rather than rushed to hit a release date. It arrives three years after MW3, and you can see exactly where all that time went. It seems the studio finally made listening to player feedback a priority.
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Outlanders is being developed by Tencent subsidiary TiMi Studio Group under license and supervision from Capcom. Unlike Rise, which appears to be the full console and PC game adapted for mobile, Outlanders is a free-to-play survival hunting game made specifically for phones.