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Bethesda Sues Makers Of Westworld Game, Saying It Uses Fallout Shelter's Code
Kotaku ^ | Ethan Gach

Posted on 06/23/2018 7:09:18 AM PDT by BenLurkin

The lawsuit was filed June 21 and seeks to have money for damages awarded and for Warner Bros. to stop selling the game.

“The Westworld game is a blatant rip-off of Fallout Shelter,” Bethesda charges in their lawsuit, arguing that Behaviour is inappropriately using code developed while assisting the development of Bethesda’s game. In the suit, Bethesda asserts that it paid Behaviour in 2014 to develop parts of Fallout Shelter and now claims that studio used some of the designs, artwork, and code commissioned for that game to help create Warner Bros. newly released Westworld mobile game.

The Westworld game resembles Fallout Shelter, a management sim released three years ago for smartphones and later on PS4, Xbox One, PC, and most recently the Nintendo Switch. Kotaku ran an article saying as much, which Bethesda even cites as Exhibit L in the suit, despite still having the site blacklisted and never responding to our emails. The new lawsuit filed yesterday, however, alleges Behaviour actually used some of the same underlying code for both games, which would put it in breach of its contract with Bethesda.

Beyond the surface similarities between how the two games look and play, Bethesda claims that there are programming bugs and defects that are present in both games. It cites as one example an apparent bug in the “demonstration” mode of the Westworld game. “Specifically, the view is out-of-focus and the scene that appears is far to the right and below the targeted landscape image,” the company writes. “It is as if a camera capturing the scene had been inadvertently pointed to the lower right foreground and then slowly refocuses on the central image. The identical problem appeared in initial versions of Fallout Shelter but was addressed before Fallout Shelter was released to the public.”

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TOPICS: Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: bethesda; falloutshelter; game; westworld

1 posted on 06/23/2018 7:09:18 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

“Westworld”...from the Westworld series?


2 posted on 06/23/2018 7:44:23 AM PDT by moovova
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To: moovova

Si


3 posted on 06/23/2018 7:44:51 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

Bethesda will win this one.


4 posted on 06/23/2018 8:01:08 AM PDT by miliantnutcase
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