Created using Unreal 4 tools and technology, Guardians Of ORION is a retro-inspired, hyper-adrenaline, top-down, twin-stick Sci-Fi shooter featuring dinosaurs, dragons and robots! Offering action-packed gameplay, cool power-ups, 4-player local multiplayer and plenty of destruction.

Unlike previous FPS driven ORION titles, Guardians will feature an isometric point of view to create a true next-gen SNES look-and-feel. With its unparalleled destruction, tons of gibs and gore, heavier firepower, 10 awesome maps and a new feature called “Blinking”, fans of hardcore shooters have a lot to look forward too.

Trek Industries' David Prassel (who for some reason also goes by the name of David James) has revealed that Valve removed Guardians Of Orion (also known as Orion or The Orion Project) from Steam due to a DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) order from Activision over alleged stolen assets from Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 and Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare.

Valve received a DMCA copyright take down notice about your game, Orion, on Steam at

*REDACTED*, on behalf of Activision, alleges that the game Orion uses weapon art content from Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 and Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare. The weapon art in question includes the M8A7 rifle, the Haymaker rifle, and the Bal-27 rifle. Use of this weapon art content without permission infringes Activision’s copyright in Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 and Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare.

As a result, we have removed your posting from Steam.

Valve follows the procedure set forth in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. The DMCA is a United States copyright law that governs online service provider liability in case of copyright infringement. When we receive a DMCA notice, Valve must take down allegedly infringing copyright materials; otherwise Valve could be subject to a claim of copyright infringement.

Of course David Prassel/David James claims this to be not true and merely a coincidence, or an homage, to existing/futuristic content.

The sight is the only similarity we can see. Even if it was a 1:1, that's not enough for a design infraction, even by legal standards and by a significant amount.

http://i.imgur.com/ZQeBNGs.png

Trek Industries, previously known as Spiral Game Studios, is no stranger to controversy though and has previously been accused of "lifting" assets from other titles, sketchy achievement icons, and some nasty controvery of poor employee treatment.