Tencent agrees to stop promoting its Horizon ripoff during Sony lawsuit
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Lawrence Bonk
2025-12-03
Tencent has agreed to stop promoting and publicly testing Light of Motiram as a lawsuit with Sony works its way through the courts, according to a report by TheGamePost. This is Tencent's game that looks suspiciously similar to Sony's Horizon franchise, so much so that Sony sued the publisher.
Sony wants the court to block the game from sale entirely, but as the case continues Tencent has agreed to keep Light of Motiram out of the spotlight. The company submitted a court filing that says there will be "no new promotion of public testing" of the game as Sony's injunction request is argued. In return, Sony will give Tencent more time to respond to the injunction.
Tencent has also issued a request to dismiss the lawsuit entirely. Both companies have jointly requested that the injunction request and the motion to dismiss be moved to the same day, which could be as early as January.
For the uninitiated, Light of Motiram is an open-world hunting game that has some obvious similarities to Horizon Zero Dawn and its sequel. The basic setup is similar, as is the visual appearance of the characters and marketing materials. This all caused Sony to refer to it as a "slavish clone" in the lawsuit.
To be fair, there are differences. The Horizon games are third-person adventures in the mold of Zelda, but Light of Motiram looks to be primarily a cooperative survival game.
Tencent is a giant multi-tentacled company that actually owns Riot Games, Supercell and Funcom. It also has investment stakes in Epic, Ubisoft, Activision and Blizzard and Larian Studios, among many others.
not_a_robot
Aug 31, 12:53 PM
hahahaha^ hot π Autosaves are bad.
sp00ky
Aug 31, 07:03 AM
surprisingly relaxing. The price is too high% well, seems pretty decent. Overall... i drew it.
cybergrape
Aug 26, 11:03 AM
Quite challenging. β οΈ great world design. pro I smelled it.
systemCrash_99
Jul 19, 11:33 PM
no cap_ Good mod support.
late4work
Jul 07, 06:03 AM
This or that?
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