EA explains Warhammer tanks were “concept art”

Many publishers and developers tend to ‘borrow’ ideas and concepts from one another, although always adding their own spin or twist on the idea.

That said, it recently appeared that Electronic Arts has copied tank designs from the Warhammer 40K universe a little too closely.

The images, compared on a Reddit post, were practically identical, right down to the finer details.

EA’s little embarrassing plagiarism moment has quickly been cleaned up by the publisher, as an official statement was issued to Game Informer:

“Games Workshop and EA are aware of the IP issues around the artwork in question, which have now been resolved. The artwork was internal EA concept art that was unintentionally released publicly.”

“No Warhammer 40,000 tanks have ever made an appearance in Command and Conquer Tiberium Alliances, and never will. Games Workshop and EA continue to have a strong relationship working together on Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning and the new free to play game Warhammer Online: Wrath of Heroes which just entered open beta.”

So even though the concepts weren’t planned on being used in the final product of the game, it shows that not even a rough concept design can hide from the legions of passionate internet users.