‘Westworld’ Accused in Court of Ripping Off ‘Fallout Shelter’
BALTIMORE (CN) — Coinciding with the official release of the “Westworld” mobile game, Warner Bros. was hit with a federal complaint Thursday that says the game is a wholesale imitation, down to its bugs, of the mega-hit “Fallout Shelter.”
With the phone-game cognoscenti buzzing about similarities in the two games since Warner announced “Westworld” in March, Bethesda Softworks tapped Margaret Esquenet of the Washington law firm Finnegan Henderson to file its copyright suit on June 21 in Maryland.
In addition to Warner Bros. Entertainment, the suit takes aim at Montreal-based Behaviour Interactive, which Bethesa Softworks claims to have hired in 2014 for help with the latest title in its 10-year-old “Fallout” franchise.
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