{"id":1933,"date":"2025-12-18T07:57:42","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T03:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/sonys-legal-battle-against-tencents-horizon-clone-is-already-over\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T07:57:42","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T03:57:42","slug":"sonys-legal-battle-against-tencents-horizon-clone-is-already-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/sonys-legal-battle-against-tencents-horizon-clone-is-already-over\/","title":{"rendered":"Sony\u2019s legal battle against Tencent\u2019s Horizon \u2018clone\u2019 is already over"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-caption=\"\" data-portal-copyright=\"\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/07\/ss_853b741d2ebd0e13f1a735c8c934064532978e1c.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=0,0,100,100\" \/><figcaption>\n\t\t<\/figcaption><\/p><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">In July, Sony sued Tencent to prevent the release of <em>Light of Motiram<\/em>, a game Sony alleged was a \u00ab\u00a0slavish clone\u00a0\u00bb of its popular <em>Horizon<\/em> series. But the legal battle is already over; the two companies have reached a \u00ab\u00a0confidential settlement\u00a0\u00bb and the case has been dismissed with prejudice, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/26381827-sony-v-tencent-stipulation-for-dismissal-pursuant-to-rule-41a1aii\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to a court document filed on Wednesday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\"><em>Light of Motiram<\/em> is also no longer listed on <a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/3319630?utm_source=ofweb&amp;utm_campaign=rel&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;utm_content=re&amp;utm_term=1129wi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Steam<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/store.epicgames.com\/p\/light-of-motiram-094dff\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Epic Games Store<\/a> despite the <a href=\"https:\/\/lightofmotiram.com\/EN\/index.html#index\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game&rsquo;s website<\/a> showing links to listings on both stores as of this writing. A user on the game&rsquo;s official subreddit also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/LIGHTOFMOTlRAM\/comments\/1pp4mao\/light_of_motiram_is_removed_on_steam\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">noticed the removal<\/a>, pointing to <a href=\"https:\/\/steamdb.info\/app\/3319630\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a SteamDB link<\/a> that says \u00ab\u00a0this app has been retired and is no longe \u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/847080\/sony-tencent-lawsuit-horizon-clone-light-of-motiram-settlement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full story at The Verge.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In July, Sony sued Tencent to prevent the release of Light of Motiram, a game Sony alleged was a \u00ab\u00a0slavish [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}