Gaming🎮 First Nintendo emulators, now one of the biggest Pokemon fan game sites around gets hit with a DMCA takedown

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Relic Castle, the biggest Pokemon fan game site around, has apparently been shut down due to a sudden DMCA takedown notice.

Earlier this month, the Switch emulator Yuzu was shut down following a lawsuit that was settled by its creator and Nintendo. This also resulted in the 3DS emulator Citra being shut down too, marking another win for Nintendo in its quest to remove all ability to play its library of games that it has made almost impossible to play. And now it seems that Relic Castle, a Pokemon fan game website, has also been shut down, though it's not particularly clear who by at this point in time (thanks, Kotaku).

For those that haven't heard of Relic Castle before, it was a forum set up back in 2014 where people could share their love for Pokemon fan games. It was also common practice to share links to these fan games that people could download from third-party websites, though Relic Castle never hosted any of these games itself, it's important to note. Essentially, it was just a convenient place to find any fan games you might want to play.

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