Monster Energy is attacking game developers who use the word 'monster' in their game titles



Energy drink Monster Energy has a deep relationship with the game industry, and has become an official drink of the Tokyo Game Show and a partner company of the Japanese e-sports team ZETA DIVISION . However, it is reported that such monster energy is attacking the developer of the game titled 'Monster'.

Monster Energy Goes After Indie Dev For Using The Word 'Monster'
https://www.thegamer.com/monster-energy-goes-after-glowstick-entertainment-for-using-the-word-monster/



Monster Energy first attacked game developers in 2020. Ubisoft's ' Immortals Phoenix Rising ' was originally titled 'Gods and Monsters' but was suddenly retitled. It was unclear why this name change was made, but when Ubisoft tried to trademark the old title, Monster Energy said, ``The names are too similar and may confuse users.'' It was later discovered that it was done because he claimed that.

Following this, it was revealed that Monster Energy was attacking Glowstick Entertainment, an indie game developer behind a game named 'Dark Deception: Monsters & Mortals'.

Vincent Livings, Founder and CEO of Glowstick Entertainment, wrote on his Twitter account, 'Monster Energy is notorious for being a notorious trademark troll. Unfortunately, they're working on it again. They seem to like to bully and bankrupt game studios with high cost lawsuits for being a gamer friendly drink company,' he tweeted.




He continued, 'Dark Deception: Monsters & Mortals has the word monster in it, so we have lawyers from Monster Energy approaching us. They claim that our game title is confusing with Monster Energy. This is It is a claim by Monster Energy, and we will fight them in court,' revealing that Monster Energy has hinted at a lawsuit.




He added, 'I'm sharing everything I've received from Monster Energy in case other game developers put the word 'monster' in their titles and end up having to deal with real monsters. We have put similar pressure on ,” he said, adding that he plans to release details of the lawsuit with Monster Energy.




Also, 'Monster Energy is a bully owned by Coca-Cola. Please do not support bullies by buying energy drinks. At least we have learned that targeting game studios is not in our interests.' I would like to,' he said.




The terms of the settlement presented by Monster Energy to Glowstick Entertainment are as follows. In exchange for allowing us to use the title 'Monsters & Mortals', we should agree not to use the word 'monster' for any other game.




In addition, Monster Energy requested that Glowstick Entertainment not use ``a logo using green and white on a black background'' and ``using a font similar to the Monster Energy logo'' as a misleading act. doing. The ``prohibition of using fonts similar to the Monster Energy logo'' applies to logos other than those that include the word monster, so it seems that the ``Dark Deception'' logo may also have to be changed. .




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