Update: Vostu is denying the allegations Zynga has brought against it. In a statement sent to 1UP, company spokesman Davidson Goldin said, “Zynga has been accused of copying so many games that they’ve sadly lost the ability to recognize games like ours that are chock full of original content and have been independently created. Vostu has 500 brilliant employees working night and day making hand drawings and writing proprietary code for online games that our 35 million users worldwide enjoy.
“Zynga’s anti-competitive effort to bully us with a frivolous lawsuit — especially when we have some of the same key investors — is pathetic. While Zynga plays games with the legal process we will continue focusing on using our substantial resources to create games that entertain our customers.”
Original Story: Zynga has sued Brazilian social game company Vostu, accusing it of copyright infringement. The massively successful FarmVille developer alleges Vostu has copied nearly everything about its games and, in the process, “continue[s] to harm Zynga irreparably.”
