One developer embroiled in a reported legal beef with Square Enix wants to resolve the lawsuit, and it's even remaking assets ...

Square Enix is now claiming that Mecharashi was developed using copyrighted materials BlackJack Studio had already made for the now-cancelled Front Mission 2089, while on Square Enix's payroll, in a ...

But years later, in October 2024, BlackJack Studio (called HK Ten Tree in the lawsuit) released a game called Metal Storm (or Mecharashi) that Square Enix says was “developed using materials created ...

Final Fantasy publisher Square Enix has launched legal action against a developer it had partnered with to make a new Front Mission game.

Square Enix is suing BlackJack Studio for reusing assets from the canceled Front Mission 2089: Borderscape in its game Mecharashi. The company wants BlackJack Studio to remove all infringing ...

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Mecharashi, scheduled to release this year ... The gameplay is inspired by classic mecha series Front Mission, where each part of a mech has its own hit points and breaks separately.

Attached to the lawsuit are screenshots from the unreleased Front Mission 2089: Borderscape, which Square Enix uses to compare to Mecharashi. You can see an example of the comparisons below.

Square Enix is now claiming that Mecharashi was developed using copyrighted materials BlackJack Studio had already made for the now-cancelled Front Mission 2089, while on Square Enix's payroll ...