Since March 2017, MechWarrior 5 developers Piranha Games have been facing a lawsuit from Harmony Gold. They’re not the only ones: in the same month, Harebrained Schemes were also targeted by Harmony Gold for their turn-based BattleTech videogame. Mech designs in both games are being accused of infringing on Harmony Gold’s supposedly exclusive licensing rights to anime film Super Dimension Fortress Macross.
Lawsuits aside, BattleTech is a fine blend of XCOM and Cowboy Bebop.
These are the latest suits in a 20-year legal battle between Harmony Gold and basically anyone who tried to make a BattleTech game. On November 13, Piranha Games filed to have the case brought to a close, alleging that Harmony Gold doesn’t even own the rights to the mechs they are supposed to have ripped-off.
The case has hung over the two games for the last eight months but it now looks like Piranha Games, at least, might be able to get free of it.
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