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Developer PopCap and publisher EA have been working on the latest entry in the series, , for the past four years or so. It’s been through a few soft launches and periods of unavailability, but it’s still very much in development. However, alongside this work on the third tower defense title in the series, a group of fans have been working on a game called .

It was announced as being in development on May 1, 2024, but it didn’t even last the rest of the month before EA and PopCap stepped in to put a stop to it. The thing is, neither company seems to have been that harsh with the fans, yet despite this game clearly infringing the franchise’s copyright, the fan developers are crushed by their game’s cancelation. Why was shut down? The reason that was shut down is because it heavily infringes the PopCap and EA’s copyright for not only , but also the series as a whole.



The game may be a fan project, but it’s set in the universe PopCap created, uses the company’s characters, the design for the games that sparked the series, and everything else that makes up the essence of the series. On May 14, 2024, the creators of from PopCap and EA asking them to stop development. The direct communication asked the project’s founder to stop development because it’s an alternative version of PopCap and EA’s game.

The message, sent via Reddit, explained how PopCap is generally okay with fan projects but has to draw the line somewhere. The line, it turns out, is drawn at creat.

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