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Did You Know Gaming (DYKG) has been a prominent journalism YouTube channel when it comes to everything gaming, focusing on a wide variety of gaming topics, like unannounced projects, rumours, beta content, cancelled projects, exclusive interviews with developers, unreleased artwork, and much more.

Back in October 2nd, 2022, Did You Know Gaming released a new video about a previously cancelled and unannounced DS game focused on the Zelda franchise, titled "Heroes of Hyrule". The premise of the cancelled game was that of a spin-off in the Zelda series, with a tactical RPG emphasis for its gameplay. The story would focus on a variety of characters and races from the Zelda franchise while they work their way towards a common goal. The game itself was going to be helmed by none other than the team behind Metroid Prime, Retro Studios. However, the project ended up getting cancelled in the design stage.

On December 8th, 2022, DYKG reached out through Twitter with an email received from YouTube regarding a strike on their channel sent directly by Nintendo of America, claiming it on DMCA grounds as copyright infringement.

DYKG mentions in their tweet that they will be "exploring all available options to restore the video" on YouTube.

Original YouTube Link
Archived Video

 

[Jokey_Carrot]

damn what a dick move

 

[Kioku]

Nintendo of America Inc. Oh...



What, exactly, are they hoping to accomplish here? There is no immediate threat against any of their IPs. No stolen or copyrighted code involved. Just available information being shared and whatever footage and photos they could find. I don't know what the deal is with companies hating the consumers and fans lately, but this is fucked up.

 

[Bladexdsl]

fan hating nintendo being dispicable nintendo again

 

[The Catboy]

I wish someone would challenge these notices because Nintendo really can’t keep abusing the DMCA

 

[MikaDubbz]

I'm conflicted on this one. On the one hand, it's just information on a game that was never meant to be, where is the harm in allowing fans to know that information? On the other hand, it was never meant to be known to us to begin with, if Nintendo doesn't want people to know about any of their rejected games for whatever reason, I feel like they should be able to reserve that right, despite how much I would love to learn about all of them.

 

[ZeroFX]

lol got rekt by dem ninjas.

 

[linuxares]

I have a really hard time to believe this DMCA would hold up in court. I hope they try to take it to court.

 

[N8thePWNr]

What a great couple of weeks it has been for Nintendo...

 

[Deleted member 194275]

That Nintendo behavior is disgusting, I hate when a project is taken down, but when they attack a YouTuber, tiktoker or any of that shit I really don't care.

 

[malekmaroc7]

Nintendo is very annoying with those unnecessary DMCA takedowns ngl.

 

[Purple_Heart]

What Copyright infrigment? Fk You Nintendo. This company is full of Buttholes.

 

[HarveyHouston]

Jeez, Nintendo's getting worse with these DMCA takedowns. The irony in all this is that when Nintendo first started in the gaming business, THEY used to steal ideas from other games! So... Do what I say, not what I do. As long as you don't make a Mario clone or talk about a Nintendo IP they don't want you to know about, you're fine. They, however, can do whatever the heck they want to.

EDIT: I found it on the good ol' Internet Archive; I don't know how long it will last considering Nintendo is not even wanting this out there, but I suggest that people save a copy if they want it. Nintendo can't come after EVERY SINGLE PERSON who views or even copies it since that would overload their legal department. I would leave a link, but... I'd better not.

 

[randy_w]

Lmao didn’t Nintendo just sent a dmca notice to a cover art website last week? Nice work nintendo, as always.

 

[AngryCinnabon]

Nintendo when they see anyone being remotely interested in their intellectual properties beyond just buying them.

 

[Jayro]

Downloaded the video for safe keeping and offline viewing later. But I did notice it contained Kakariko village's music theme from OoT, maybe that's what caused the takedown.

 

[linuxares]

I wonder if it's a fake or real. I remember some dude got a false strike

 

[SDA]

I knew about this even before this thread was posted because I saw their post on Twitter.

 

[PopcornSweetie]

Luckily, i've seen it before the DMCA.

 

[SylverReZ]

Luckily, i've seen it before the DMCA.

Now you can see it again thanks to Archive for existing.