The Dishwasher Vampire Smile Switch

The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile unofficially ported to PC, just the original dev doesn't listen... much

UPDATE: Ska Studios responds to the hacker's assertion that, "this is not piracy. This is restoration of justice."

Update: Ska founder James Silva has responded to this bizarre turn events further by stating to Eurogamer, "I should add that I'thousand totally giving the guy the do good of the doubt and saying he probably didn't mean to meet quite the way he did with that restoration of justice stuff."

Ska "art unicorn" Michelle Juett wasn't as forgiving. "James is ever the skilful cop," she said in an e-mail to Eurogamer. "I'one thousand kind of livid myself, I simply come across him as the overly-entitled gamer proverb 'I deserve this because I desire it!' I was saying earlier on Twitter 'Halo: Spartan Attack simply on Windows eight devices! That Russian guy should port it FOR GREAT JUSTICE!' Like James though, he's going to practise what he's going to do and it's kind of impressive but trying to justify it morally actually irks me."

The Ska Studios cats could not be reached for comment, because they are cats.

Original story: Ska Studios' stylish blackness-and-white-with-ruby-all-over slice-'em-upwardly, The Dishwasher: Vampire Smiling, has been ported from its native home of XBLA onto PC with ane hitch: it's not an official port.

I forgot how much I love this game. Well worth the asking price, I reckon.

Instead, Russian hacker Barabus, took it upon himself to spread the joy and mirth of Vampire Smile to the PC crowd by pirating the 2011 game without Ska's permission. "I have to argue that the part of the authors are not very dainty to publish the game exclusively for the Xbox 360, making it impossible for PC gamers to play in such a great game," wrote Barabus on the GameDev.ru forums (via Google Interpret).

"We practise not steal the game for the Xbox 360, we release it for the PC port," Barabus continued. "Given that developers ignore the PC platform, virtually whatsoever loss of turn a profit for them is not out of the question. Later all, if they wanted to earn money, then the game would be issued on all available platforms. If the game came out on PC officially, then this thread would not be."

Of course, this does cut into sales in the sense that many people own both Xbox 360s and PCs, so one could potentially just pirate the PC version instead.

Amazingly, Ska Studios founder James Silva doesn't have that big an issue with his game being spread around the interwebs. "I approximate yous could say my reaction is mixed," Silva told IndieStatik. "I'k flattered that in that location's this much interest in Vampire Smile on PC. I'm not mad nigh the cleft itself, in fact, I'grand really pretty impressed. But I'm bewildered by the cracker's attempt to justify the morality of it. He assumes a lot about why Vampire Smile's not on PC yet, and he could accept cleared upward a lot of those assumptions by simply emailing me. I become that piracy is a service problem, simply that's a upshot, not a justification."

To this, Barabus responded in a comment to the IndieStatik report, "Users ever have the option to pay for the game or not. This also applies to Xbox 360 which has the opportunity to play pirated games."

He then explained that the PC version lacked some of the XBLA original'due south features such as co-op, online play, and achievements. "Original Xbox 360 version for pirates is more bonny. I gave only the opportunity to play for those people who have no Xbox 360."

"This is not piracy. This is restoration of justice."

Nosotros've contacted Ska Studios about this so-called vigilante justice and will update as nosotros hear back.