Sony is bringing up Tencent, Shameless Horizon Imitation Game Lights beyond Shameless Motiram

Sony is suing Tencent for alleging its upcoming Motiram Game Light as “Sie's slave clone…Horizon Horizon series video games”.

The complaint was filed in a California court last week, claiming that Tencent’s upcoming Motiram’s adventure game Light is illegally similar to Horizon: Forbidden West and Horizon: Zero Dawn in everything from biological design to protagonists to marketing materials: Zero Dawn. The complaint outlines many similarities, comparing various marketing screenshots and game descriptions for the two games.

Like Horizon, Motiram's light also occurs in the giant robot dinosaurs' post-apocalyptic world, where they roam large natural environments such as tropical forests, deserts and snow-capped mountains. Humans live in tribal groups like the horizon and must fight with machine animals, which are also largely consistent with the animals on the horizon in order to survive. Both games even feature red-haired heroines, wearing very similar outfits and styles, and Motiram even has a lead device similar to Aloy's “Focus” headsets.

The complaint also cites headlines from many gaming sites, including Kotaku, TheGamer and Gamerant, as well as various Steam and Reddit comments, all of which comment on the similarities between the two matches and the possibility of Sony's possible lawsuits on this issue.

“According to Motiram promotional game trailers and other promotional materials, common ground with Horizon includes not only the same story and game themes, cultural and character elements, but also art style, style, landscape, architecture and art elements, palettes, fonts, fonts and symbols, symbols and symbols. Light and perspectives are also very similar.

Similarly, according to Sony's complaint, Tencent allegedly knows exactly what it does here. Sony said Tencent began developing Motiram’s lighting in 2023 and contacted Sony at the 2024 game developer conference to request a licensing agreement to develop its own Horizon game. Sony refused. But, anyway, Tencent has been developing the light of Motiram. Sony also claimed that once it was aware of the game, Sony informally settled the copyright dispute with Tencent, but when it did, Sony said that Tencent tried to license Horizon again. Sony once again refused, and Tencent allegedly advanced through the competition's promotions and game tests.

Sony is suing Tencent for copyright and trademark infringement, as well as the wrong name for the origin. It requires the court to permanently prohibit Tencent from infringing its copyright, expenses and damages, losses of up to $150,000, each individual work, and requires all infringing materials caused by Tencent to be destroyed by Sony.

Meanwhile, Motiram's Light Steam is on the market, but there is no release date yet.

Rebekah Valentine is a senior journalist at IGN. You can find her post on bluesky @duckvalentine.bsky.social. Is there a story tip? Send it to [email protected].