"2006's Scarface: The World Is Yours is back! Well, maybe. It's complicated. Possibly illegal. See, the Vice City-lookin' open-world action-adventure game for PS2, Xbox, and Wii recently resurfaced on Steam and the Epic Games Store. That's (possibly) good news if you like diving into some gaming deep tracks from the early 21st Century. But it's bad news if you're the rights holder to this game because you didn't give anyone permission to do this."
"But as Rock Paper Shotgun documents, EC Digital Entertainment doesn't have much of a history. Based in Hong Kong, their website is blocked for whatever reason, and their YouTube page is filled with so many tumbleweeds it's giving me Arc Raiders PTSD flashbacks. What's more, this version of Scarface includes some QoL mods baked in without permission from its creators, one of whom is clearly stating "the holder of the Scarface license wasn't willing to re-release the game.""
The 2006 game Scarface: The World Is Yours resurfaced on Steam and the Epic Games Store under publisher EC Digital Entertainment, which claims AI-assisted graphical upgrades. EC Digital Entertainment appears to have little public history, with a Hong Kong base, a blocked website, and inactive YouTube presence. The release reportedly bundles community fixes SilentPatch and Fusion Fix without prior permission from mod authors. One mod author states the Scarface license holder was unwilling to re-release the game, and the movie IP rights holder appears unaware of the listings. The Steam and EGS store pages may have gone live prematurely, creating legal and ethical uncertainty.
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