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Sony is suing Tencent for copyright and trademark infringement in California federal court

accusing the Chinese tech giant of ripping off its Horizon game series, quoting Reuters.

Sony said in a lawsuit filed on Friday that Tencent's upcoming light of motiram is a slavish clone

of its games that copies several distinctive Horizon elements

and threatens to confuse buyers. Spokespeople for Tencent and attorneys and spokespeople for Sony

did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Monday. Sony released the first game in

the Horizon series Horizon Zero Dawn on its PlayStation 4 in 2017. The games follow a red-headed woman named Alloy as she

navigates a post-apocalyptic world populated by human tribes and robotic animals. Sony said in its

complaint that it declined an offer from Tencent to collaborate on a new Horizon game last year.

Tencent later announced Light of Motiram, which Sony said features identical

gameplay, story themes, and artistic elements to Horizon, as well as many other similarities,

end quote. And quoting Polygon. Filed on July 25th, the lawsuit intends to block Tencent from

releasing the game, which it argues violates Sony Interactive Entertainment's

intellectual property while also seeking $150,000 in statutory damages for each separate work

in the Horizon series infringed. Notably, Sony alleges that Tencent approached them in 2024 through

its Aurora Studios with a proposal to work on a mobile horizon spin-off game, but the Japanese

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