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The latest 'Palworld' update breaks the game — and everyone is blaming Nintendo

The latest update for Palworld has caused an uproar among its community, as players grapple with game-breaking glitches with Pals. Many are attributing the compromised gaming experience to the legal battles with Nintendo.

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'Palworld' Dev PocketPair Teases Next Major Update With Massive Island, New Tower Bosses, New Pals

Developer PocketPair teased the next major update coming to Palworld with some images of what will be coming.

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Palworld puts the Nintendo lawsuit aside and dev takes a pop at 'the haters' as it announces both a Terraria collaboration and by far its biggest island yet

Gotta roast 'em all.

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New open-world survival game called "shameless" amid comparisons to Horizon Zero Dawn, although it'll play more like Palworld with robot creatures

Light of Motiram is set in a "world overrun by colossal machines"

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Palworld's best defense against part of Nintendo's lawsuit could be an 8-year-old GTA 5 mod, according to one patent expert

It's all down to timing

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The Nintendo Palworld lawsuit hasn't stopped the survival hit from debuting at the top of Japan's PS5 charts, beating Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero and Metaphor: ReFantazio

"Thank you PlayStation gamers!"

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Palworld developer reports Nintendo's suing over 3 Pokémon patents for only $66,000 in damages, but a videogame IP lawyer says fighting the lawsuit could mean 'burning millions of dollars'

We finally know which patents Pocketpair and Nintendo are battling over.

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"Nintendo is not asserting patents on genuine technological inventions but trying to monopolize game rules" The patents for the Palworld lawsuit have finally been revealed — filed after the game launch

Pocketpair have announced the patents Nintendo's lawsuit against Palworld is claiming infringement. The 3 patents are related specifically to gameplay mechanics and were filed after Palworld’s launch.

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Palworld developer reveals the exact patents it's alleged to have infringed upon in the Nintendo lawsuit, and they all have application dates after the survival game's release

Pocketpair says it will "continue to assert our position in this case through future legal proceedings"

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A month after Nintendo's Palworld lawsuit, Sega files its own patent infringement claim against idle RPG devs' gacha mechanics

Sega is seeking 1 billion yen in damages from MementoMori developer Bank of Innovation

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Palworld gets a taste of its own medicine in new mobile "pal-like" blatantly inspired by Pocketpair's survival game

Pokemon's evolutionary line expands again

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Palworld escapes indefinite delay, launches on PS5 in Japan today despite the survival game's ongoing legal battle with Nintendo

It launched on PS5 in 68 other countries last week

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Despite the looming Nintendo lawsuit, PUBG publisher Krafton is bringing Palworld to mobile devices

Krafton's announcement comes just a couple weeks after Nintendo launched its legal action against Pocketpair.

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Palworld is headed to mobile, and its devs have teamed up with PUBG's Krafton to make it so as a Nintendo lawsuit brews: "It plans to ... implement the original’s main fun elements to fit the mobile environment"

Palworld developer Pocketpair and PUBG publisher Krafton are teaming up to bring the game to mobile, even as a legal battle with Nintendo looms on the horizon.

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Palworld shows no signs of stopping as the PUBG studio signs up to turn the survival game into a mobile game, even as a lawsuit with Nintendo rumbles on

Krafton says the "main fun elements" of Palworld will be "faithfully" implemented

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Nintendo is filing for the patents it's suing Palworld with in the US as well, though some (non-final) rejections could complicate matters

One-two punch.

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Videogame IP lawyer says Nintendo could've been planning its Pocketpair lawsuit before Palworld even released: 'If you know who you're going to go sue, you can draft claims to target them'

Nintendo had filed amendments for its patents in the run-up to Palworld's launch.

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Videogame patent lawyer says Nintendo is taking a risk with its Palworld lawsuit: 'They've exposed themselves in a big way'

"If you're too broad, then you've given them a pathway to make the patent go away."

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A videogame patent lawyer breaks down Nintendo's risky Palworld lawsuit: 'It definitely feels like a punishment'

A crash course in videogame patent law and the legal minefield Nintendo's navigating by suing Pocketpair.

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“This could be just the first pounding of Nintendo’s giant global IP protection hammer” — industry experts weigh in on why we should be concerned over Palworld lawsuit

We take a closer look at Nintendo's upcoming battle with Pocketpair, creators of Palworld, and the implications of Nintendo's patent infringement claims on the wider gaming industry.

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Despite shadow dropping in 68 other countries, Palworld on PS5 is indefinitely skipping Japan amid Nintendo's lawsuit

Nintendo and The Pokemon Company filed the lawsuit in Tokyo

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Palworld comes to PS5 today as Nintendo legal battle looms

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Japanese patent law expert says Nintendo may have strengthened its claims specifically to target Palworld

Many of Nintendo's patents were registered after Palworld's launch

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Nintendo lawsuit could see Palworld reworked or removed and is an investment in "unspoken fear," lawyer says: "Don’t cross us and we won’t do it to you"

An injunction against Palworld could have multiple effects

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IP expert says Nintendo probably doesn't own patents strong enough to "prevent Pocketpair from making Palworld," and this "may boil down to nothing but bullying"

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