Overview

• Sony urges the Northern District of California to deny Tencent’s motion to dismiss and allow discovery into Light of Motiram’s development and promotion.
• Sony calls Tencent’s defense “nonsense,” arguing the 2027 delay and revised Steam assets do not cure ongoing harm from earlier promotion and trailers still online.
• The filing accuses Tencent of a corporate “shell game,” pointing to Tencent Holdings’ role, the Light of Motiram trademark and domain, and links to subsidiaries such as Aurora Studios and Proxima Beta/Level Infinite.
• Sony alleges both copyright and trademark infringement, citing an Aloy lookalike used in marketing and even the hiring of Horizon Forbidden West’s composer as evidence of trading on the franchise’s identity.
• Tencent previously argued Sony sued the wrong entities and is seeking an impermissible monopoly on genre conventions, leaving the dispute active and poised to move slowly through the courts.