Update: EA taking Zynga to court over The Ville

Electronic Arts today announced it’s filing a copyright infringement lawsuit against social game giant Zynga.

The suit alleges when Zynga launched The Ville, it “copied and misappropriated the original and distinctive expressive elements of The Sims Social in a violation of U.S. copyright laws.”

The Sims Social launched in August 2011 and had peak traffic levels of 11.3 million daily active users. When Zynga announced The Ville during its Zynga Unleashed event, comparisons between the two games were immediate. Since then, the game’s become the

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