Warner Bros. Issues Statement Refuting Bethesda's Allegations

Fallout Shelter publisher, Bethesda Softworks, last calendar week filed a adapt in a Maryland U.South. District Courtroom against Warner Bros. and Behaviour Interactive, alleging that the newly-released Westworld game is a "breathy rip-off" of Fallout Shelter. Remarkably, Behaviour Interactive is i of the co-developers of Fallout Shelter aslope Bethesda Game Studios – a subsidiary of Bethesda Softworks.

At present, in a statement to GamesIndustry.biz, Warner Bros. has refuted those charges, saying that Westworld is an original game from the ground up, and contrary to Bethesda's allegations. uses no lawmaking from Fallout Shelter. Describing Bethesda'south allegations as 'baseless', 'untrue', and 'unsubstantiated', WB likewise denied allegations that it had e'er directly or indirectly 'induced' Behaviour Interactive to elevator any code from Fallout Shelter.

"The assertions by Bethesda Softworks that Warner's Westworld mobile game improperly used source code from Bethesda's Fallout Shelter are equally surprising as they are unsubstantiated", said WB in its statement. The company also said that being one of the "leading creators of intellectual property", information technology has a "deep respect for intellectual property rights", and would never steal anybody else's work to pass off as its own.

"Warner Bros. has been bodacious by the game developer, Behaviour Interactive, that Bethesda's allegations are untrue and that none of Bethesda'due south lawmaking was used in the Westworld game. Moreover, contrary to Bethesda's groundless allegation, Warner Bros. at no fourth dimension 'induced' Behaviour to utilise the Fallout Shelter lawmaking in Westworld".

Bethesda, as mentioned already, sued Warner Bros. recently for copyright infringement, breach of contract and misappropriating trade secrets later the Westworld game was released on Android and iOS before this month. As per the filing, Westworld "has the same or highly similar game pattern, art style, animations, features and other gameplay elements" as Fallout Shelter, and uses "the same copyrighted computer lawmaking created for Fallout Shelter in Westworld".

To bear witness its point, the arrange also claimed than a bug constitute in early build Fallout Shelter too appears in Westworld. According to Bethesda, WB and Behaviour "copied Fallout Shelter's features and then made cosmetic modifications for Westworld'southward 'western' theme".