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Tencent Posts Earnings Beat as AI Buoys Game, Ad Businesses – WSJ  The Wall Street Journal Chinese tech giant Tencent’s quarterly revenue jumps 15% on AI investments, gaming unit boost  CNBC China’s Tencent beats Q2 revenue forecasts as gaming, AI fuel growth  Reuters Tencent Investors Eye Path to Record in Cheap Stock Valuations  Bloomberg.com Tencent in charts: Double-digit revenue growth across all segments in …

Tencent has quietly removed, edited, and/or replaced key art on the Steam page of its upcoming adventure game, Light of Motiram, just days after Sony filed a copyright lawsuit. Towards the end of last year, Tencent’s development studio, Polaris Quest, revealed Light of Motiram, a post-apocalyptic open-world survival crafting game featuring mechanised animal-like creatures that bore a remarkable resemblance to …

Sony’s lawsuit over Horizon similarities has Light of Motiram changing its Steam store, changing screenshots, art, and even its game description. Polaris Quest’s Light of Motiram was first revealed in November 2024, and it didn’t take long for people to notice the similarities to Guerrilla’s Horizon games. The reactions were blunt; fans and media alike called it a straight-up knock-off, …

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 …

Chinese gaming giant Tencent pitched Sony on making a Horizon mobile game, one that would have expanded the world of the franchise to Asia and included multiplayer and games-as-a-service elements, according to court documents. Details of the pitch are included in the recent lawsuit Sony filed against Tencent, alleging Tencent’s upcoming open-world game Light of Motiram to be a copy …

Horizon Zero Dawn/Forbidden West publishers Sony have called in the lawyers over Tencent’s upcoming Light of Motiram, arguing in a lawsuit filing (spotted by Reuters) that the post-apocalyptic action adventure looks a little too much like their post-apocalyptic action adventure. The case alleges that Light of Motiram, currently in development at Tencent subsidiary Polaris Quest, is a “slavish clone” of …

Sony has filed a lawsuit against Tencent, claiming its upcoming game Light of Motiram is a “slavish clone” of its Horizon series. As initially reported by Reuters, Sony has filed a lawsuit in California federal court alleging copyright and trademark infringement, and claiming that the game is so close to Horizon Zero Dawn and Horizon Forbidden West that players could …

While the similarities between the two games are indeed obvious and the legal proceedings seem like a natural turn of events, there’s one important detail that makes the entire lawsuit feel a wee bit odd – the fact that PlayStation itself was promoting LIGHT OF MOTIRAM back when it was first announced. As spotted by 80 Level in early December …

Sony‘s PlayStation is suing China-based video game giant Tencent over copyright and trademark infringement regarding the former’s “Horizon” franchise. Per a lawsuit filed July 25 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, Sony Interactive Entertainment is alleging Tencent’s upcoming game “Light of Motiram” is a “slavish clone” of the “Horizon Zero Dawn” and “Horizon Forbidden West” …

Sony is suing Tencent to attempt to stop the release of Light of Motiram, which Sony describes as a “slavish clone” of its Horizon series of games, as reported by Reuters. Light of Motiram was announced last year with a trailer featuring an aesthetic that’s quite similar to the Horizon franchise — including huge robot animals and even a title …