{"id":431,"date":"2025-03-18T08:45:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T09:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/?p=431"},"modified":"2025-03-18T12:44:40","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T12:44:40","slug":"pocketpair-recalls-depressing-day-nintendo-announced-its-palworld-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/18\/pocketpair-recalls-depressing-day-nintendo-announced-its-palworld-lawsuit\/","title":{"rendered":"Pocketpair Recalls &#8220;Depressing Day&#8221; Nintendo Announced Its Palworld Lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Global community manager speaks out.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Although many had previously commented on the similarities between <a href=\"https:\/\/www.purexbox.com\/games\/xbox-series-x\/palworld\">Palworld<\/a> and <strong>Pok\u00e9mon<\/strong>, it was nevertheless a huge surprise when Nintendo announced its patent lawsuit against developer Pocketpair.<\/p>\n<p>According to Pocketpair&#8217;s global community manager, however, none were quite as surprised as the team itself. In speaking at a GDC 2025 talk in San Francisco (thanks, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/survival-crafting\/it-was-a-very-depressing-day-palworld-community-manager-reveals-studios-reaction-to-nintendo-lawsuit\/\">PC Gamer<\/a>), John Buckley commented on the overall atmosphere at Pocketpair following Nintendo&#8217;s announcement, stating that &#8220;it was a very depressing day&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2025\/03\/pocketpair-recalls-depressing-day-nintendo-announced-its-palworld-lawsuit\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global community manager speaks out. Although many had previously commented on the similarities between Palworld and Pok\u00e9mon, it was nevertheless a huge surprise when Nintendo announced its patent lawsuit against developer Pocketpair. According to Pocketpair&#8217;s global community manager, however, none were quite as surprised as the team itself. In speaking at a GDC 2025 talk [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":433,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":432,"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431\/revisions\/432"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}