Digital Homicide Studios (defunct)

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Digital Homicide Studios was an independent game development studio run by brothers James and Robert Romine.

Digital Homicide Studios was an independent game development studio run by brothers James and Robert Romine. They were notorious for using sockpuppetry (such as establishing fake companies and websites), abusing every known loophole on Steam system, making countless shovelware titles such as The Slaughtering Grounds, Temper Tantrum (an ironic name), Forsaken Uprising, Deadly Profits, Medieval Mercs, Galactic Hitman, lots of reskinned clones, and for attacking anyone who said anything negative about them, such as Jim Sterling, to the point of suing him. It later tried to sue 100 Steam users.

Thankfully, Digital Homicide's attempt to sue Valve's costumers resulted in Valve banning them from Steam and purging all of their games from the store, which caused the studio to go bankrupt and to dismiss the lawsuit against those Steam users because they couldn't afford it. The studio officially closed down in October 2016, and the lawsuit against Jim Sterling was fully dismissed on February 2017.

In 2018, Digital Homicide have returned to Steam under the name Loot Toot Games. Rather than developing games though, Loot Toot gives away keys for their original games that they made as Digital Homicide. In other words, they're still selling their games on Steam even after Valve had kicked them out. They even tried to put another of their Space Invaders reskins on Greenlight under the Loot Toot account. However, they were quickly banned from Steam and dissolved a few months later.

In January 2020 one of the Romine brothers broke radio silence by making some Blog posts about Digital Homicide's demise, however it was quickly pointed out by people that said blog posts were largely misleading and consisted of mostly false information and excuses for Digital Homicide's bad behavior in the past.