Nintendo Warns MMO Company Over Trademark Issues

Gamasutra.com (news now registration free) has word that MMOG developer Webzen has received a friendly letter from Nintendo discussing the similarities screenshots of their upcoming game have with The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker. The developer states that this is a coincidence resulting from the cell shades style of their game, and the particular hair and clothes show in published media. From the article: "a spokesperson from developer Webzen claims that the hero of the game does not have any fixed image, and is created by the player to be their avatar in the game world." Heads up courtesy your friendly neighborhood simoniker.

I was going to say Nintendo is full of it,

[Anonymous Coward]

But those screenshots do look remarkably similar, except they did it right. No charlie brown esque models. They look like humans

I think...

[DrZombie]

...that the little puff of "wind" in the lower right hand corner doesn't help their case either.

Re:Very similar, I'd say.

[MagicDude]

http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=107 [vgcats.com]

It's All Over

[jmole]

All hell will break loose if Tingle appears in this game.

Nintendo: "You may have stolen our main character Link, but stealing our homosexual Frenchman who flys around on a balloon has gone too far! He is our Jar Jar Binks of the Zelda series, not yours!"

Pika?

[ABaumann]

They should also sue them because of that little (dog?) thing running around that has the same color pallette as Pikachu.

I mean, Nintendo clearly owns #FFFF00.