May 15, 2025 Independent artist Fern Hook (Fern Hook), known under the pseudonym Antireal, accused the studio Bungie in the use of its original designs in the upcoming game Marathon without its consent.
According to the artist, the elements of her works in 2017 were either completely copied or used with minimal changes in the visual materials of the game. Hook She also stated that several artists Bungie were signed on her on social networks for several years, which means that they knew about her work.
Bungie admitted that her former employee included these designs without the knowledge of the company. In response to accusations Bungie She stated that she contacted Antireal to discuss the situation and now intends to conduct a full check of all game assets for their origin. In addition, the studio intends to introduce more strict requirements for documenting the contribution of all artists to prevent such situations in the future.
The company representative also noted that in Bungie value the creativity and devotion of all artists who participate in the creation of the studio games, and seek to act with them correctly.
To prevent Similar Issues in the Future, We Are Conducting a Thorough Review of Our In-Game Assets, Specifically Those Done by The Former Bungie Artist, and And Implementing Stickter Checks to Document All Artist Contributions.
– Marathondevteam (@marathondevteam) May 16, 2025
Recall that this is not the first time when Bungie facilitations of accusations of unlawful borrowing ideas. Earlier, an artist Julian Fileon (Julian Faylona) stated that his work was used in Katszen Destiny 2 without permission. Although Bungie promised to compensate for the use of its materials, File said that a year later he had never received anything.
In addition, in October 2024, a writer Kelsi Martino (Kelsey Martineau) sued Bungie. He claims that the storyline of Red War in Destiny 2 Contains elements similar to his works published in 2013 and 2014. Now Red War is not available in the game.
Marathon starts on September 23 on PC (Steam), PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series with complete Russian localization.
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The more time it passes, the stronger the Bungie remind me of the Trojan horse. Issue LightFall, the cancellation of the treloe online, the supervision of games-services, like Concord, including these scandals with plagiarism.
No, the bungie has been up to Sony (cutting content from D2 is worth it), but this is still not normal. Apparently, their fate will be decided by success/failure of Marathon.
With the court on the plot of Red War, it is still absurd that banks cannot provide normal materials for the court since they did not have a build from 2017 at the time of the release of the game. And with modern assemblies, the material from that company is incompatible. And because of this, they have to use a video from YouTube with passage as evidence in court.
Here’s the mediocrity, how much they https://genesis-casino.co.uk/mobile-app/ did not care – there are even fonts and the text from Arta took one in one 🫠
But on the other hand, the company will invite Alberto Melgo and beautifully fill in, as inspired by his work
Like real, they are slagitated … Bukoks? Arrows and some icons? Bungie is so bad with designers?
There, the people excavated that the Bungie art director was signed for many years to the artist who suffered from plagiarism, like some other studio employees. On the one hand – artists are signed on top of each other, draw inspiration, seems to be nothing special. But on the other hand, such a coincidence?
I am afraid that the situation can be more deplorable, given that such episodes come up with some frequency, and these are only cases known to the public.
And, again. There is a Bungie – they were caught by the hand several times. And how many studios, especially those working on outsource, also make? And if the artist is less popular, without subscribers and audience, t.e. without obvious opportunity to take out quarrels from the hut?
Lawyers a few years ago began to scratch their heads about AI and plagiarism in the field of image generation, which are obtained on the basis of the dataset from real artists, and here once again the reminder that people did not forgot how to plagiarism without AI. And sometimes they do it even too arrogant.
Well, by the way, with the arts fiasco, but about the writer’s claim there everything is very attracted by the ears. I saw excerpts from his work and did not notice something unique. Rather, both he and Banji were inspired by the same topics. I mean, using the course “a huge alien flies to the earth” and the insert of the word “legion” in the text does not sound like a convincing accusation of plagiarism.
The authors of the marathon apparently studied with Agliev with his 10/10, and Davtyan
If they would like, Sony could foresee something after Concord, but they did not do it and would not do it. The Knordord studio was blossomed in quiet and all. Even if the marathon fails with a bang.
Ryan dumped too much about the skin of this dummy, made them “consultants” on the development of the online sector Sonya, Hulst seemed to be favored and after that admit that the grandmas went down the wind … reputational losses, with the subsequent loss of even greater grandmothers, are provided with sonyam.
Earlier, artist Julian Faylona said that his work was used in Destiny 2 Katszen without permission. Although Bungie promised to compensate for the use of its materials, the file said that a year later he had never received anything.
Somewhere on the Internet I saw the info (there are no proofs, but it sounds funny and quite in the spirit of the situation) that an employee who should ensure the payment of compensation taking into account the internal assessment of its size was fired before the order was executed.
In addition, in October 2024, writer Kelsey Martineu (Kelsey Martineau) sued Bungie. He claims that the Red War storyline in Destiny 2 contains elements similar to his works published in 2013 and 2014. Now Red War is not available in the game.
By the way, he not only got to the plot of Red War, but also to the plot of Curse of Osiris, this is the first of the additions for Destiny 2. And taking into account stories about stitrated art – I believe. Easy to. If the arts are twisted, even wiping the traces on behalf of the artist that he wrote there, then to write off pieces of plot, but not exactly-easy. Moreover, individual elements are moderately clicked, you can try to write off it, but there are obvious parallels that may not be just a coincidence.
Hmm, to be a fan of Bungie studio is now worse than being a clown from the Silksong or Half-Life 3 Zhdunov club. There at least games can come out cool … If you ever come out.
In this process, more fun/visual than another. It turned out that the Banji themselves did not have access to Red War remote, so they have problems with evidence. The court seemed to say that he would not allow the use of all sorts of videos from YouTube, as evidence. So the Banji found themselves in an interesting situation
This is now what was the case? By "dummy" was meant practical zero baggage of the games that Sonya received, one diet. Halo status here is not in the subject.
It’s true. When they made Sanset of old content, they said that they organized a special storage for all this, where they could freely place and extract content. Perhaps due to the fact that there are too many changes in the game since then, they now cannot just take, raise the test server and restore the state of the game without additional gestures.
Called a specific guilty with reference to linkedin? No? Oops, guys, it means that the studio in intentional plagiarism is guilty. 😉
Copyright applies to the work of the author automatically. The problem is to sue without money with the one who has plenty of them.
Red War court is still going on or you about another process?
Therefore, it is very important to protect your work by copyright, especially if some kind of office … talented developers without demand will think of driving your brainchild.
Arty could copy one person without the knowledge of the rest, so this is not an indicator
About carved content is generally funny. At the beginning, they cut out, explaining that there was no place on the curves, then they stuffed the game with season and additions, opening it again, cut the plot from old locations – because it is not relevant. And Fandom agreed with everything and enjoyed everyone. Then they began to merge the entire original ENT – and also agreed with this. The same boring grind seasons, additions almost without a plot so that people buy seasons, retactions of old locations and weapons, because Bunga Little Indie Studio. But for some reason only after the end of the history of light and darkness, people threw up their hands and left the game. And only then they started working to improve game experience, make a grind is much easier, and starting to make the game funny, and not to tighten the nerf’s nuts fun. But even all that they do completely not enough. Seasons these are episodes-fillers with a stupid plot in which they throw long-forgotten stories, or invented the piano again from the void. Trying to catch up players throwing out cards of the fanservice and collaboration. But this still does not help them, and people continue to leave. I think that in order to resurrect the Destones, you need to make a complete rebut, because there are much more details and Laura in the mobile district than it was in the District itself at all.
It was even better there. They won the court with an argument – well, we deleted the additions, therefore it is not considered: the original District was taken from the main plot of the board game Eberron, and the exo and the awakening of this copypast Varfordzhev and Kalastarov, nobody to do it. For some strange reason, the fandoms of the DND do not intersect.