Westworld Mobile Game Removed From Stores After Legal Dispute

Westworld Mobile will be removed from the Google Play Store and Apple App Store today in response to the legal battle between developers Behaviour Interactive and Bethesda.

Earlier this year, Behaviour Interactive released a Westworld mobile game in partnership with HBO. Not long after that, the company was sued by Bethesda for using digital code that they owned. This was because Bethesda hired the same studio to help with the Fallout Shelter mobile game, and they discovered that the code used in Fallout Shelter was the same code being used in the Westworld game. The best part of it: they made the discovery by duplicating a bug previously present in Fallout Shelter.

Since last June, the two have been in a legal battle over the unauthorized usage of code owned by Bethesda. Now they have reached an "amicable settlement," which seems to include the online removal of the game.

The settlement itself had concluded last month, though its press release made no mention of the game's removal. The termination was announced on Twitter, where the legal dispute was not mentioned.

Westworld Mobile has been removed from online stores. Official servers for the game will close on April 16, 2019.

If I had to guess, I'd say that HBO was pretty unhappy with the dev team, and shut it all down.