The announcement has agreed to suspend all promotional and test activities for the game ” Origin of the Wild ” in preparation for next year ‘ s major litigation with Sony. Sony had previously filed an inquest alleging that the Origin of the Desert was a pixel-class copy of the Horizon series and had applied to the court for a preliminary injunction. While the injunction motion is pending, the arraignment promise will suspend the public testing and marketing of The Origin of the Desert, which was scheduled for sale in the fourth quarter of 2027, while ensuring that the distribution window is not advanced.
At the end of July this year, Sony filed a copyright action against ténée. At that time, court documents showed that Sony had requested a jury trial on copyright and trademark infringement and had prevented the publication of the new one from being announced, accusing him of “theft of the image of Eloy, the main character of the Horizon series”, and “the deliberate misdirection of the Origin of the Wild as a new work of the Horizon series by promoting video and social media accounts”. Shortly thereafter, several changes were made to the Steam page of The Origin of the Desert and to the promotional material. By September, Sony’s allegations that his new creation was a “cloning” series of Horizons were refuted, stating that Sony was not “combating piracy, copying or any real intellectual property threat”, but rather was trying “to convert the elements of the universal type of game into proprietary assets”, insisting that the Origin of the Wilds was using only “permanent conventional design” and that those elements did not fall within the “Soni exclusive domain”.
In October, Sony refuted the latest document submitted in the Litigation for the Copyright Litigation of The Horizon: Zero Dawn, emphasizing that “damages have been caused and continue to be sustained” and accusing him of trying to replicate the “visional style, sound design, role and narrative” of the Sony Horizon series, including the engagement of the composer of The Horizon: The West Banned Area, which not only violated the image of the role of Eloy but also its value as a symbol of PlayStation. According to a review of the proposed order submitted on 1 December by the Games Post, Sony and Tent have “jointly” requested the Court to extend the time limit for the presentation of the case and to schedule hearings to dismiss the motions and the injunctions until next January. The court documents clearly state that: “Soney’s interactive entertainment was presented and the author agreed: 1. The extended time of the statement and the later date of the hearing shall not be used to claim the delay in the request for a preliminary injunction; 2. No new promotion or public testing of the Origin of the Waste shall be carried out while the preliminary injunction motion is pending; 3. The game is released not earlier than the fourth quarter of 2027; 4. The author does not apply for expedited evidence of the preliminary injunction motion.”
The deadline for filing objections to Sony ‘ s preliminary injunction was extended from 3 December 2025 to 17 December, and the deadline for Sony ‘ s response was postponed to 2 January 2026. The parties also requested the judge to join the hearing to dismiss the motion and the motion for injunction until 29 January 2026 (scheduled for 15 January), in accordance with the schedule of the Court. This joint hearing is crucial. The arraignment still attempts to push the dismissal on the grounds of “Soney’s intention to monopolize the general elements of redhead role, mechanical biology, etc.” and “suits for the future of unpublished games”. Sony, for his part, continued to demand that the Court prohibit the rise of the Origin of the Desert and to prevent the introduction of a red-haired image of a “tribal woman soldier” that it considered to be too similar to that of Elroy, the lead actor in the Horizon.
