Lawsuit Over Alleged Horizon Zero Dawn Clone Gets Ugly

Sony’s lawsuit against Tencent over alleged Horizon Zero Dawn clone, Light of Motiram, has taken an ugly turn. The Chinese gaming giant has fired back, accusing Sony of trying to monopolize “genre conventions” and “time-honored tropes” that Horizon itself heavily borrows from.

Light of Motiram follows ‘time-honored tropes’ like Horizon series, Tencent argues

Folks over at The Game Post spotted Tencent’s fiery legal response, in which the company seeks dismissal of Sony’s lawsuit.

“By suing over an unreleased project that merely employs the same time-honored tropes embraced by scores of other games released both before and after Horizon — like Enslaved, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Far Cry: Primal, Far Cry: New Dawn, Outer Wilds, Biomutant, and many more — Sony seeks an impermissible monopoly on genre conventions,” Tencent wrote.

Tencent said that it was taken aback by Sony’s claim that Horizon Zero Dawn is “like no fictional world created before [or] since” because the game’s developers have previously admitted to seeking inspiration from games like Enslaved: Odyssey to the West.

Tencent also took issue with Sony bringing up a Horizon spinoff pitch by the company to strengthen its original complaint. In its response, Tencent said that the pitch came from one of its many subsidiaries, and none of the parent company’s executives or employees were at the meeting or involved in the pitch.

“Nothing that occurred at the San Francisco meeting — i.e., a request to a ‘license in the Horizon intellectual property’ — is alleged to be an act of copyright or trademark infringement,” Tencent added.

The battle continues…

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