Sony’s recent lawsuit against Tencent’s Polaris Quest studio over the game Light of Motiram, for similarities to the Horizon franchise, reads like a bizarre déjà vu moment for me, and I think for many gamers. And it speaks to a deeper issue with games and creativity.
The claim? That Tencent’s new open-world, but unreleased, adventure appears to have heavily borrowed from Sony’s beloved Horizon game franchise, right down to the bow-wielding red-haired heroine, towering mechanical animals, and tribal-futuristic aesthetics.
