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Palworld is a hit, and it’s easy to see why
Gotta (slave) catch ‘em all.
I definitely see the vision, and I completely understand how if I was someone who did enjoy the Pokémon or Minecraft games of the world, Palworld would have lit my brain on fire like a Charizard at butcher shop. PocketPair’s CEO Takuro Mizobe refuted the accusations to Japanese gaming news website Automation, saying, “We make our games very seriously, and we have absolutely no intention of infringing upon the intellectual property of other companies.” He also spoke out against the harassment and death threats he said PocketPair’s employees were facing: “Currently, we are receiving slanderous comments against our artists, and we are seeing tweets that appear to be death threats,” read his post on X translated from Japanese. But the fact that Palworld mashed all those highly popular game mechanics together makes it enough to catch the attention of starved Pokémon fans who haven’t had a decent meal since Sword / Shield.
Or read this on The Verge
