Mob Entertainment, the studio behind the massively popular horror franchise Poppy Playground, has filed a lawsuit against Google and multiple games that use its assets without authorization.
It’s a common problem in app stores, so much so that it has become a meme: all mobile games kind of have the same icon, usually a character mid-shout.
But sometimes it goes beyond that, and fake developers release games that are clear copyright infringements to mislead consumers.
Now a developer has taken action to try and clear out the worst offenders, filing a lawsuit against Google for its failure to remove the games and against developer Daigo Game 2020, Inc for releasing a “scam” application.
Mob Entertainment says that Daigo Game 2020 company released two games — Poppy Playtime: Chapter 3 and Poppy Playtime: Chapter 4 — and used protected assets to do so.