Alleges developer misused Bethesda`s intellectual property to develop new game for Warner Bros.
Bethesda Softworks has sued Warner Bros. Entertainment and Behavior Interactive over their latest mobile release, Westworld.
As reported by Polygon, Bethesda has filed a lawsuit in Maryland U.S. District Court which alleges the mobile game Westworld, based on HBO`s hit TV series of the same title, is a `blatant rip-off` of its own game, Fallout Shelter, to the extent that it was built using the exact same code.
The lawsuit alleges Behaviour Interactive used code from Fallout Shelter to develop a Westworld game for Warner Bros.
According to the court filings, Bethesda entered into a contract with Behaviour Interactive in 2014 to start development of Fallout Shelter, a mobile simulation game based in Bethesda`s Fallout franchise. Under the agreement, all of Behaviour`s work on the game would be the owned property of Bethesda, but Behaviour would retain `access to source code, game a...
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