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Capcom steals Okami artwork from IGN?

Bale Fire | April 20, 2008 | News | Playstation 2 Wii

It appears Capcom's standards have fallen in recent years, no there isn't something wrong with Devil May Cry 4 or Lost Planet. The problem seems to be with Capcom's art division working on Okami for the Wii. It appears that rather than use one of their own pictures for the boxart they have taken to plundering IGN's image vault. Sure it's small and covered pretty well but when you look closely you can see IGN's logo

No, it's not Aprils fools day - though I did have to check. The American boxart for Okami hides an embarrassing secret... Someone from Capcom took their own artwork from the game from IGN. How do we know? Well, gob smackingly, the retail boxart has a visible IGN watermark! It's possible that files have been lost in the mists of time since they closed Clover Studio down... but taking art for your own game from a website? What next? Asking customers to sign up for two shitty ID's via your own cluster*bleep* of a sign up website with an orgy of letters and numbers?

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Donnelly | April 20, 2008

Hahaha, that's hilarious.

And Lost Planet was utter wank tbh.
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Krunal | April 20, 2008

I'm sorry but I can't seem to see the 'IGN Logo' in that image...
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  Storm | April 20, 2008
  
  Haha.
  
  Wow, Capcom guys need to learn how to smudge in Photoshop. xD
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  black doom | April 20, 2008
  
  Nor can I see it to be honest, Krunal. I wish I could.
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    dmf_dynasty | April 20, 2008
    
    Look right by the wolf's mouth. You'll see a circle with a design in it and the letters IGN.
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Oogity_Boogity_Boo | April 20, 2008

It's hard to make out, but if you look really hard you can kind of see it.

How someone found that, I have no idea.
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jmac353 | April 20, 2008

Since when does IGN put their watermark in a random spot in the middle of images?

You know I saw a similar story about those Imagine DS games with their boxart being from a stock photo website and having it's watermark. I looked at the boxart in a store though and there was nothing to be found, the boxart was as clean as can be.
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  Xenctuary | April 20, 2008
  
  The background was "stolen", not the cover art. The wolf was added in separately.
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    jmac353 | April 21, 2008
    
    But still, since when does IGN put their watermark anywhere but the corner of their images?
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      Gothic Girl | April 21, 2008
      
      The watermark was in the corner of the image.
      Here is the image that was apparently used for the background.
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Linkin Park Fan | April 20, 2008

I can see it, stupid capcom. You created a whole game, is it so hard to make a box cover.
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Alvaroduck | April 20, 2008

I can't see it tbh. Pretty funny though.
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Xenctuary | April 20, 2008

I couldn't see it until I looked at the original version.
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  Final Blade | April 20, 2008
  
  _{I don't see anything in that picture that has the IGN logo in it.
  
  Same as this. But who cares, IGN sucks.}
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FFXFREAK | April 20, 2008

That's pretty funny, I can see it on the original, but the next time I go to the store I'm gonna check this one out to see if it's not just a joke T_T.

~FFXFREAK
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Synergized | April 20, 2008

Haha, brilliant Capcom, brilliant.
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VeGiTAX2 | April 21, 2008

Creepy, the packshot on the capcom press site has the same logo on zoom as well. Guess they should have rechecked that one a bit more before release.
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iLLmatic | April 21, 2008

Nothing wrong with Devil May Cry 4 and Lost Planet. Hm, I must have traded them both in on a dare then.
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StarJet | April 21, 2008

This frankly sucks. Shame, Capcom. Shame on you!
I just couldn't believe it when I first saw this. Could it be an elaborate joke?
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therealNgamer | April 22, 2008

Wow, I just checked my box and it is surprisingly pretty obvious. IGN will be forever immortalized! Actually now that I think about it, I'll bet IGN paid off Capcom to put that subliminal message on the game cover!
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Euphoric | April 28, 2008

So they stole a background? Big deal. I bet it happens alot more than just that once with lots of other companies. It's just that this time the artist was too stupid to remove the watermark.