Sony sues Tencent for allegedly ripping off Horizon with upcoming game Light of Motiram

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BraLoD said:

The point here is that Tencent approached Sony to get the Horizon IP for the game, Sony declined, and they still went ahead with it.

Simply being a ripoff would hardly be reason enough for Sony to sue and win it, but Tencent actually wanted to be making it a Horizon game, and got cheeky after being told a "no".

There is actually precedent for that, Nintendo was making a game where Popeye has to save Olive while dodging barrels thrown by Bluto, but the negotiations fell short, so Nintendo created Donkey Kong, got sued, and won.