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
Oct. 2, 2024Krafton says the “main fun elements” of Palworld will be “faithfully” implemented
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Palworlddeveloper Pocketpair may bein the midst of a legal battlewith Nintendo and The Pokemon Company, but that has not stopped PUBG publisher Krafton from signing a licensing agreement to bring the IP to mobile.
As revealed in apress release(translated viaGoogleand DeepL), Krafton says it will “expand the Palworld IP to mobile platforms” with a project developed by PUBG Studios. What that project is isn’t entirely clear at this point, however, as the press release doesn’t confirm if the company is planning to port the existing survival game over from PC and consoles or produce something entirely new that uses the Palworld name. Regardless, Krafton says it will “faithfully” implement the “main fun elements” of the original game for mobile.
No indication has been given of when the project is expected to be released, either, so we’ll just have to watch this space for now. In the meantime, there’s the ongoing patent infringement lawsuit against Pocketpair to keep an eye on, which Nintendo andThe Pokemon Companyfiled less than two weeks ago.
At the time of writing, none of the companies have publicly revealed which patents Pocketpair allegedly infringed upon – in fact, the Palworld developer stated shortly after the lawsuit was announced thateven it wasn’t aware of the details, although perhaps that’s changed in the meantime. Clearly, though, Pocketpair isn’t letting the lawsuit get in the way of its plans right now, asPalworld also got a PS5 release just last week.
Nintendo could be looking to take the Palworld lawsuit overseas, but 1 attorney suggests it may be harder to win in the US than in Japan.
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