For several months now, Sony has been in an ongoing legal battle against Tencent Games and Polaris Quest's Light of Motiram for allegedly ripping off Guerrilla Games' Horizon franchise, with Sony suing the China-based gaming publisher in July and calling Motiram a "slavish clone" of Horizon.
As soon as Motiram was revealed in late 2024, players worldwide immediately saw similarities between Horizon and Motiram, with both being third-person action games set in a post-apocalyptic world where tribal humans, a red-haired woman in particular, must struggle to survive among colossal animalistic machines.
Tencent recently motioned to dismiss the suit, calling Sony's arguments "nonsense", but Sony motioned for a preliminary injunction in response in order to prevent Tencent from being able to develop or release Motiram.
While Sony hopes to succeed with the suit by the end of the year, the lawsuit is still ongoing, but court documents have recently revealed advancements in other Horizon projects, specifically the upcoming Horizon Zero Dawn film adaptation.
The Current State of Horizon Zero Dawn's Movie
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