Sony has issued a DMCA takedown against a fan-made patch that allowed 2015 action RPG Bloodborne to run at 60FPS, sparking fresh speculation that a remaster of the game could be in the works.
According to modder Lance McDonald, who's also one of the most prominent members of the Bloodborne community, Sony asked him to "remove links to the patch [he] posted on the internet" via DMCA notice, which means it's no longer available for download.
In the replies, users are speculating that Sony's sudden flurry of activity aimed at the patch could mean that the company is working on its own version of Bloodborne that runs at 60FPS.
There is precedent for this standpoint. Back in 2022, Konami issued a DMCA notice against a leak for a then-upcoming Silent Hill game, and that game subsequently turned out to be Silent Hill: The Short Message, so that DMCA was issued in order for Konami to get ahead of the leaks.
Of course, the obvious (and unfortunate) fallacy in the argument is that companies don't always issue DMCA takedowns because they're planning on creating something similar to what's been taken down.
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