Sony has filed a lawsuit against Chinese tech giant Tencent, accusing it of copying its Horizon franchise with its game Light of Motiram.

The details:

Last year, Tencent unveiled Light of Motiram, an open-world survival game set in a post-apocalyptic world inhabited by animal-like robots, immediately causing many to draw comparisons to Sony’s hit Horizon franchise.
As reported by Reuters, Sony has also seen the striking similarities and has filed a lawsuit in California accusing Tencent of copyright and trademark infringement, referring to the title as a “slavish clone” of Horizon. In the filing, Sony highlights several similarities between the two games, stating that Light of Motiram also features a “young, red-headed female protagonist and tribal groups fighting for survival among large robotic animals in a post-apocalyptic world.”
The lawsuit has also revealed a timeline of the game’s development, claiming that Tencent began working on Light of Motiram in 2023 before approaching Sony to pitch the game as a possible Horizon title. Sony turned down the pitch, leaving Tencent to continue developing the game, with Sony then reaching out following its reveal to attempt to solve a copyright dispute behind the scenes, which resulted in another failed pitch for Tencent.
The filing features several screenshots of Light of Motiram’s promotional material as well as comments from the public comparing the game to Horizon. "Not only does it look like a copy of the Horizon games, but you had the cheek to copy the cover art as well,” one comment reads.

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Sony files lawsuit against Tencent accusing it of ripping off the Horizon franchise with Light of Motiram