{"id":590,"date":"2025-07-29T10:54:02","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T10:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emmeacne.com\/?p=590"},"modified":"2025-07-29T10:54:02","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T10:54:02","slug":"sony-is-suing-tencent-for-its-allegedslavish-clone-of-the-horizon-video-game-franchise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jennyacne.com\/?p=590","title":{"rendered":"Sony is suing Tencent for its alleged&#8217;slavish clone&#8217; of the &#8216;Horizon&#8217; video game franchise."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>PlayStation is suing Tencent over copyright and trademark infringement in relation to the Horizon franchise. PlayStation alleges that Tencent&#8217;s upcoming game &#8220;Light of Motiram&#8221; is a &#8220;slavish clone&#8221; of the &#8220;Horizon Zero Dawn&#8221; and &#8220;Horizon Forbidden West&#8221; video games. The lawsuit is filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, claiming that Tencent&#8217;s copying of Horizon has been criticized as &#8220;crazy, insane, and shameless.&#8221; The lawsuit seeks statutory damages of $150,000 for each separate work in the &#8220;Horizon&#8221; franchise infringed or for &#8220;SIE&#8217;s actual damages sustained as a result of Defendants&#8217; acts of copyright infringement,&#8221; as well as other monetary damages. Tencent has not yet set a release date for &#8220;Light of Motiram,&#8221; which is described as a &#8220;world overrun by colossal machines.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Massive Face Blackhead Extraction with Dr Khaled Sadek , LipomaCyst.com\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/v_z1UA-DcVY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PlayStation is suing Tencent over copyright and trademark infringement in relation to the Horizon franchise. PlayStation alleges that Tencent&#8217;s upcoming game &#8220;Light of Motiram&#8221; is a &#8220;slavish clone&#8221; of the &#8220;Horizon Zero Dawn&#8221; and &#8220;Horizon Forbidden West&#8221; video games. The lawsuit is filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, claiming [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":591,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[31,84,127],"class_list":["post-590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dr-khaled-sadek","tag-blackheads","tag-face","tag-massive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennyacne.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennyacne.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennyacne.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennyacne.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennyacne.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jennyacne.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennyacne.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennyacne.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennyacne.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennyacne.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}