GameStop NFT "creator" is suspended for selling NFTs of indie games they didn't own - Eurogamer.net

An NFT minter on GameStop's newly launched NFT marketplace has been caught selling games they didn't make and had no authority to sell.

GameStop has since confirmed that the person behind NiFTy Arcade has been suspended, but Ars reports that he is still "holding onto the tends of thousands of dollars in cryptocurrency he made by selling those NFTs before the suspension".

Ello insists the games were taken from "open source game repositories approved for commercial use" and that one of the games, Galatic Wars, had an "unlicensed" tag, but Ars was able to discover that Worm Nom Nom's license, for example, clearly prohibited commercial use.

Ello has since confirmed that they "never sought the necessary permission from the original creators before selling them".

He just took my game and sold it," Galactic Wars creator Borja "Volcano Bytes" de Tena told Ars.

"I've been working on video games for years, but VolcanoBytes is not something I do for money," de Tena added.

something I do mainly for love, my income is not that of a real business.

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