Monster hit Palworld is yet to receive any formal legal threat from Nintendo or The Pokémon Company, the game’s developer has confirmed, despite continuing close comparisons between its creature designs.
But, speaking to GameFile, Palworld creator Takuro Mizobe said that threat was never followed up behind the scenes.
In the same interview, Mizobe discussed how his career as a game developer got started via a year-long training programme backed by Nintendo.
The Pokémon Company’s former chief legal officer Don McGowan, who worked at the company for 12 years, said earlier this year that he was “surprised” Palworld had “got this far”.
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