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Microsoft announced a new Surface Pro and Surface Laptop as Nintendo's legal team tried to gut Palworld and the Xbox gaming handheld leaked online

This week Microsoft announced a new Surface Pro 12-inch and Surface Laptop 13-inch. Palworld had to remove a feature and images of the new Xbox handheld leaked as well.

Windows Central

Palworld devs 'disappointed' as they patch out a game mechanic to appease Nintendo, but 'the alternative would have led to an even greater deterioration'

Goodbye, Pal gliding.

PC Gamer

Palworld is forced to make "yet another compromise" in its ongoing legal battle with Nintendo — apologizing to players

Pocketpair has shared news of the state of Palworld being affected by the ongoing legal disputes with Nintendo, and it is not looking good.

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Pocketpair uses examples from Final Fantasy 14, Tomb Raider, Monster Hunter, and more to defend Palworld against Nintendo's lawsuit

Catching strays

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Palworld developers challenge Nintendo's patents using examples from Zelda, ARK: Survival, Tomb Raider, Titanfall 2 and many more huge titles

Pocketpair argues Nintendo's patents lack originality, citing a bunch of popular games in it's defense of Palworld

Windows Central

Palworld dev explains what's going on with its slick Dead Cells-style "Metroidvania x Roguelite," which has its own team who "used to be at Pocketpair"

The team still works in Pocketpair's offices, unconventionally, but they're somewhat separate

GamesRadar

Palworld developer says reaching 32 million players is "unexplainable" and "a lot of people don't realize how much of an anomaly that is"

One of a kind

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How does Pocketpair spend all that Palworld money? Dev says they can take "risks" even if "we don't know what we're doing," trusting the CEO has "squirreled away enough to keep us alive"

It's good to be Pocketpair

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Palworld developer Pocketpair's publishing arm reveals its next game – a "gorgeous (and somewhat spooky?!)" truck adventure with a "small town mystery"

Truckful has also been described as "Dredge on four wheels"

GamesRadar

Nintendo secures two more patents, making a U.S. anti-Palworld lawsuit more likely

Nintendo secured two more patents against Palworld, increasing the chance of a U.S. lawsuit against Pocketpair by late spring or summer 2025.

Windows Central

Palworld dev says the studio went dark for months because "the team was getting burnt out from all the social media stuff, I was getting burnt out, our CEO was under attack in Japan"

"We really tried to push back on the AI stuff specifically"

GamesRadar

Palworld decides it wasn't April fooling after all, is actually making a visual novel dating sim where you can, uh, 'dismember and eat' some of its cast

Some take-backsies.

PC Gamer

Dread it, run from it, the Palworld dating sim is real – and Pocketpair is tripling down with a Steam page starring "Chillet's little sister" and "Yandere Splatterina"

"Good idea? Bad idea? Who cares! SOMEONE WILL BE HAPPY!"

GamesRadar

The Palworld Dating Sim is real — and so is the Lovander body pillow

Palworld devs are committing to the bit and announced Palworld! More Than Just Pals, the dating sim coming soon to Steam. To celebrate they are giving away not one but TWO Lovander body pillows.

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"Minutes after Palworld released," Pocketpair was already getting game pitches from "some really big names" before it even set up its own publisher: "No one has money at the moment"

"we're kind of open to helping people with their weird little ideas because they have them"

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Palworld dev "secretly" brought a game it's publishing to an event that's "not like anything we've been involved in" and reactions are "very positive"

Pocketpair didn't tell anyone it was involved with the game

PC Gamer

From Palworld movies to Palworld TV shows: 'Everyone under the sun pitched us every idea you can imagine,' says Pocketpair's communications director

"Nothing's happening at the moment," John "Bucky" Buckley said, though he added: "We're still always thinking about these things."

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Nintendo's Pokémon-Like Nemesis Won't Back Down From Switch 2 Dreams

Pocketpair's communications director says the Tokyo-based developer wants to bring its hit game Palworld to Nintendo Switch 2 despite ongoing legal challenges.

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The Feature Every 'Palworld' Fan Wants Has Finally Arrived

Pocketpair has finally added crossplay and a handful of other quality-of-life features to the indie hit, just days after a developer revealed how the team reacted to Nintendo's ongoing lawsuit.

PC Gamer

Palworld's Crossplay Update does far more than let you play with console buddies, adding photo mode, a drafting table and 'dimensional Pal Storage'

Palmaxxing.

GamesRadar

Palworld community manager admits the survival game is "ripe for toxicity" and has a simple solution: "You just call 'em losers and you kick 'em"

"And then they post on Twitter saying, 'Bucky called me a loser,' and I'm like, 'yeah, you're a loser, dude'"

GamesRadar

Palworld dev revisits "totally not real, or maybe real" dating sim Pocketpair teased last year, fully aware of furry fandom: "There is a very large and very vocal community of passionate individuals"

It's like Hatoful Boyfriend with guns

PC Gamer

It was 'super popular to hate Palworld' after launch, says community manager: 'A lot of companies might crumble under the threats, under the pressure'

Pocketpair has just about given up trying to convince skeptics that it didn't use generative AI, he also said.

PC Gamer

'It was a very depressing day': Palworld community manager reveals studio's reaction to Nintendo lawsuit

The lawsuit came as a surprise, and led the developer to "hire security guards" for its Tokyo Game Show presence.

GamesRadar

"We hit this disgusting number that makes me feel sick": Palworld devs don't know why their survival game was so successful - "If we knew how to do it, we'd do it again"

"Again, why did we get this many players? I don't know, please don't ask me"

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