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Nintendo Is (Finally) Suing Over Palworld
The video game described as ’Pokémon with guns’ is being accused of patent infringement after it became a hit earlier this year.
Nintendo — the Japanese video-game giant behind franchises like Mario and Zelda, an entire lineage of consoles, and co-owner of the Pokémon Company — is a famously litigious entity with a robust track record of effectively clamping down on anything even giving off a whiff of copyright infringement. An analyst speaking with Bloomberg, Toyo Securities’ Hideki Yasuda, noted that the lawsuit’s focus on patent violation over copyright infringement suggests the company is going after Palworld on the basis of game mechanics instead of the actual creature designs. In any case, Pocketpair might not have used generative AI to create Palworld, but in some deeper sense, the studio’s approach nevertheless follows the broad arc of what that technology sorta-kinda does: regurgitate wide swathes of what’s come before to produce something that ultimately feels uncanny even as it is successful within the parameters of what it’s trying to do.
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