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Capcom legend tackles Palworld-Nintendo battle and manages to annoy almost everyone: 'It's a game that transcends the boundaries of war'

Yoshiki Okamoto reckons fans shouldn't even be playing it while a lawsuit's active.

PC Gamer · Oct 2, 2025

Resident Evil and Street Fighter veteran faces backlash after saying "please don't buy" Palworld, claiming Pocketpair "crossed a line that should not be crossed," and admitting he has not played Palworld

Yoshiki Okamoto does not "want the world to become a place where this kind of thing is acceptable"

GamesRadar · Oct 1, 2025

Palworld dev is "worried many of you haven’t played" Core Keeper, "one of the best games on Steam," so now the two survival games are bundled together and even cheaper in the Steam Autumn Sale

The devs are "just big fans"

GamesRadar · Oct 1, 2025

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New Palworld update will remind console users "every 15 minutes" if they're pushing their world settings too far, which, believe it or not, is actually an improvement on the last patch

It's better than nothing, I guess?

GamesRadar · Sep 29, 2025

As Palworld gears up for another indie collab, dev says "it's a dream come true to be trusted by the developers of our favorite games" and the Terraria and Ultrakill crossovers happened because "we like them"

"We are massive Terraria and Ultrakill fans"

GamesRadar · Sep 24, 2025

Palworld dev seemingly fires back at comparisons between life sim spin-off Palfarm and Pokemon Pokopia, says he's "surprised" folks think Pocketpair has "wizard-level developers able to make a game in 1 week"

"The tinfoil hats are out in force"

GamesRadar · Sep 24, 2025

A week after saying it was going quiet for the rest of the year, Palworld announces a crossover with the brilliant and bloodstained shooter Ultrakill

Nintendo's really gonna love this one.

PC Gamer · Sep 23, 2025

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Pocketpair announces Palfarm, a Palworld 'cozy life' farm sim spinoff where you can still give a monkey an assault rifle, but like, cozily

I suppose coziness is relative.

PC Gamer · Sep 23, 2025

Palworld's new farming sim spin-off has been in the works "for over a year now," but Pocketpair is still hiding "something even CRAZIER" that's not been announced yet

Palfarm might be exciting, but Pocketpair is apparently working on something even better

GamesRadar · Sep 23, 2025

Pocketpair's latest 'Palworld' game might make Nintendo patent farming mechanics — 'Palfarm' gets cozy with early access

Hot on the heels of Nintendo's own Pokemon cozy farming life sim, Palworld has its own on the way too.

Windows Central · Sep 23, 2025

After Terraria, Palworld devs team up with another indie legend: FPS Ultrakill, and you're not gonna believe this, it's got guns: "Blood is fuel. Hell is full"

Palworld's next crossover is with cult FPS Ultrakill

GamesRadar · Sep 23, 2025

Palworld devs announce Palfarm, a multiplayer farming life sim with less survival game grit and more Stardew Valley energy, days after Nintendo reveals Pokemon farming and crafting game Pokopia

Palworld: Palfarm is exactly what it sounds like

GamesRadar · Sep 23, 2025

Nintendo reportedly gets even more obnoxious about patent law by taking a 'mods aren't real games' stance against a Dark Souls 3 mod that could invalidate its Palworld lawsuit

Come on, man.

PC Gamer · Sep 18, 2025

Palworld lead reminds players the game "is 100% owned, 100% funded, 100% invested and 100% controlled by us, Pocketpair" as some question Sony business deal: "I'm crashing out over this fr fr"

Bucky is in distress

GamesRadar · Sep 18, 2025

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GamesRadar · Sep 18, 2025

Palworld dev pushes back on Early Access criticisms, points to examples like Baldur's Gate 3 and Satisfactory: "Games only get better when the players are involved"

"We're not silly enough to think we know best"

GamesRadar · Sep 17, 2025

Palworld dev says a Dark Souls 3 mod invalidates Nintendo's Pokeball patent, Nintendo says mods don't count as real games, and an expert worries prior art precedents could see a modder's work "used against them"

"Modders would become 'fair game' as their ideas could be patented by someone else"

Windows Central · Sep 16, 2025

Experts warn Nintendo’s new stance on mods could undermine gaming innovation and legal protections

Nintendo tells Tokyo court mods don’t count as prior art, putting the future of fan-created game content at risk.

Windows Central · Sep 16, 2025

"Development on Palworld is not slowing down or scaling back, quite the opposite" — Pocketpair teases v1.0 and the World Tree

Palworld 1.0 launches in 2026 with major updates, leaving Early Access. And yes, the long-awaited World Tree is finally coming.

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GamesRadar · Sep 16, 2025

Palworld 1.0 release scheduled for "next year" with "a truly massive amount of content planned" despite Nintendo's ongoing lawsuit – and Pocketpair is "also working on some other things"

The full launch "will be a major milestone" for the studio

PC Gamer · Sep 16, 2025

Palworld is going quiet as Pocketpair takes an iron to its 'quirks and jank,' with full release planned for 2026

Almost two years on, Palworld is nearly ready for primetime. For a given definition of 'nearly,' anyway.

GamesRadar · Sep 13, 2025

"I see a lot of publishers I don't like": Vampire Survivors creator made his own publisher to "share the luck" and says too many companies "try to exploit the platforms just to make money"

"I definitely see the publishing business more from the point of view of making games"

Windows Central · Sep 12, 2025

“The Patent Office made a huge mistake” — how Nintendo’s problematic 'summoning patent' passed without scrutiny

Nintendo’s broad “summoning” patent slipped through the USPTO, a move which experts call a huge mistake.

GamesRadar · Sep 11, 2025

Palworld developer's publishing arm signs a new horror game that doesn't sound creepy at all – a retro-style fishing adventure which definitely has "absolutely no eerie mysteries" whatsoever

Pocketpair Publishing shows off Normal Fishing

GamesRadar · Sep 11, 2025

Palworld publishing director teases something "you might just like" is coming soon, but for now "Palworld posting" is on pause until they beat Silksong

GamesRadar+ posting will also pause while I play Silksong

GamesRadar · Sep 11, 2025

Baldur's Gate 3 publishing lead says patents like the controversial ones Nintendo has secured amid its Palworld lawsuit "are too often used in bad faith"

The patents could reshape other developers' games forever

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