The company was founded in 1992 in Quebec City by Rémi Racine as Megatoon Entertainment Group.[1][2] Two years later, Racine co-founded a Montreal-based Multimedia Interactive (MMI) to develop interactive entertainment software for CD-ROM.[3] Both companies were sold to Malofilm Communications in 1996, and a year later, they were merged into Behaviour Interactive.[3] In 1999, Racine and some investors bought the studio back, but they had to rename it, changing the name in 2000 to Artificial Mind & Movement Inc. (A2M).[1][3] In November 2008, the company acquired Santiago-based Wanako Games from Activision Blizzard,[4] which was the first and largest South American game studio.[3] By 2010, the studio's name was reverted to Behaviour Interactive, partly due to increased production of original titles and thus stronger presence in the gaming community, partly due to the availability of the original name, and partly due to one particular obscene interpretation of the initialism "A2M".[1]
On June 21, 2018, Bethesda Softworks LLC sued Warner Bros. Entertainment and Behaviour Interactive Inc. over Westworld, an Android/iOS mobile game based on the science fiction/thriller TV series & franchise Westworld, alleging that the game is a "blatant rip-off" of Fallout Shelter, another mobile game, co-developed by Behaviour.
In a suit filed in a Maryland U.S. District Court, Bethesda alleges that Westworld — developed by Behaviour — "has the same or highly similar game design, art style, animations, features and other gameplay elements" as Fallout Shelter. Bethesda sued for copyright infringement, breach of contract and misappropriating trade secrets, seeking a jury trial and damages.[5] The lawsuit also alleges that the Westworld game identically reproduces some software bugs that were originally present in Fallout Shelter.[6]
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