PUBG Corp, the owner and developer of the massively popular online shooter PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, has launched a lawsuit against Chinese publisher NetEase, which it claims has infringed copyright by producing two games for mobile devices that bear a striking similarity to PUBG.
As reported over on Ars Technica, the suit was filed in Northern California’s US District Court and particularly refers to mobile-only games Rules of Survival and Knives Out (both of which arrived on iOS before PUBG had been ported). Both feature 100-person online battles on an island with a shrinking “safe zone”, a variety of island-crossing vehicles, and military-grade weapons and armour. PUBG Corp is seeking damages from NetEase, as well as the removal of both games from online stores.
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