Warner Bros' mobile title based on the hit HBO sci-fi show Westworld is to close down following the "amicable settlement" of a 2018 lawsuit, in which Bethesda accused the game of being a "blatant rip-off of Fallout Shelter".
Westworld Mobile, which launched last March, is a building and people management sim which bore enough of a resemblance to Fallout Shelter, with its cutesy art style and underlying mechanics, to raise Bethesda Softworks' ire. It didn't help that both titles were developed by the same studio, Behaviour Interactive.
Bethesda's accusations went deeper than mere design similarities, however. In last year's lawsuit, the publisher claimed that Behaviour had leveraged "Bethesda's computer code, game designs, and other intellectual property as the foundation for the Westworld game". A claim it was able to support by pointing out that Westworld appeared to feature a number of bugs identical to those found in Fallout Shelter's original release.
from Eurogamer.net
by January 16, 2019 at 03:06PM
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