10 days after Sony sued over Tencent's allegedly "slavish" Horizon Zero Dawn clone, its Steam page has been scrubbed of robot mastodons and Aloy lookalikes

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I guess the lawsuit has already had some effect

Light of Motiram
(Image credit: Tencent/Polaris Quest)

Last week, Sony sued over Light of Motiram, a survival game which the PlayStation parent calls a "slavish clone" of the Horizon series. The results of that lawsuit remain to be seen, but for now it seems to have been enough to convince the devs to scrub Light of Motiram's Steam page clean of its most incriminating Horizon-like elements.

Light of Motiram, in development at Tencent subsidiary Polaris Quest, once proudly emblazoned its Steam page with screenshots of robot mastodons, repeated descriptions of other "colossal machines," and banner art of a girl who could easily be described as "anime Aloy." (You can still see an archived version of the page.) There was even an animated gif of a human character doing battle with a giant mech atop a robot horse, which you could easily squint to mistake for a shot from a Horizon trailer.

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Dustin Bailey joined the GamesRadar team as a Staff Writer in May 2022, and is currently based in Missouri. He's been covering games (with occasional dalliances in the worlds of anime and pro wrestling) since 2015, first as a freelancer, then as a news writer at PCGamesN for nearly five years. His love for games was sparked somewhere between Metal Gear Solid 2 and Knights of the Old Republic, and these days you can usually find him splitting his entertainment time between retro gaming, the latest big action-adventure title, or a long haul in American Truck Simulator.

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