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Litigation

Oct. 25, 2016

Mobile game maker sues Hasbro for alleged copyright infringement

Peak Games claims Habro's 'My Little Pony' mobile game is a copy of its own game, 'Toy Blast.'

By Steven Crighton
Daily Journal Staff Writer

A Turkish mobile game developer claims in a lawsuit that a Hasbro Inc. "My Little Pony-" themed mobile game is a thinly-disguised copy of its own game, "Toy Blast."

Toy Blast is a puzzle game created for smartphones that features stacks of colored cubes and obstacles configured across a game board.

Plaintiff Peak Games, the game's creator, claimed in the suit filed Friday that the game...

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