Sony is suing Tencent for its alleged’slavish clone’ of the ‘Horizon’ video game franchise.

PlayStation is suing Tencent over copyright and trademark infringement in relation to the Horizon franchise. PlayStation alleges that Tencent’s upcoming game “Light of Motiram” is a “slavish clone” of the “Horizon Zero Dawn” and “Horizon Forbidden West” video games. The lawsuit is filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, claiming that Tencent’s copying of Horizon has been criticized as “crazy, insane, and shameless.” The lawsuit seeks statutory damages of $150,000 for each separate work in the “Horizon” franchise infringed or for “SIE’s actual damages sustained as a result of Defendants’ acts of copyright infringement,” as well as other monetary damages. Tencent has not yet set a release date for “Light of Motiram,” which is described as a “world overrun by colossal machines.”