Ubisoft sues Apple, Google for offering 'Rainbow Six: Siege' copycat

Screenshot courtesy of Qookka Games/Ejoy

Ubisoft thinks one mobile game available on Apple App Store and Google Play Store is blatantly copying Rainbow Six: Siege. Since the companies aren't taking the game down, it decided to take legal action against them. Ubisoft claims Area F2, a game developed by Alibaba's Ejoy and Qookka Games, is a "near carbon copy" and borrowed "virtually every aspect" of Rainbow Six so that it can "piggyback" on the game's success.

The game developer said it alerted Apple and Google about this reported copyright violations, but both companies so far have declined to pull Area F2 from their app stores. Ubisoft didn't say why it was suing the app store operators instead of the game's developers. But as Engadget points out, this might come down to region and accessibility. Ejoy is based in China, so making a foreign copyright challenge might be more difficult than cutting its access to some revenue it might get from Apple's and Google's app stores.