Mob Entertainment–the development studio behind the jumpscare-heavy survival horror game known as Poppy Playtime–is suing Google over what it calls “scam” games that are ripping off the studio’s intellectual property (via Polygon).
The studio filed the lawsuit earlier this week, claiming that Google has allowed a number of illegal knockoff versions of Poppy Playtime into the Google Play store. Among the unofficial (and unauthorized) games are Poppy Playtime Chapter 3 and Poppy Playtime Chapter 4, neither of which were created by Mob Entertainment. Both games–developed by an entity known as Daigo–are still available for download on the Google Play store at the time of writing.
These two games are proving especially vexing for Poppy Playtime’s creators due to the fact that the game is episodic in nature. Mob Entertainment argues that by allowing illegitimate games to use “Poppy Playtime” in their titles and (indicate that said games are new episodes), Google is allowing other entities to profit from the Poppy Playtime brand by fooling fans into thinking they’re playing new chapters of the game.
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