PUBG Studios of Krafton Has Agreed to Create the Mobile Game Palworld

 On Wednesday, South Korean game developer Krafton revealed that it and Japanese game developer Pocketpair had inked a licensing deal for the intellectual property (IP) of Krafton's Palworld game. Krafton has agreed to extend the intellectual property of the game on the mobile platform. 

        

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                © Pocketpair, Inc

 According to Krafton, the game's original components will be modified and added to the mobile platform. The project's development will be managed by Krafton's PUBG Studios.

Owner of PUBG Studios, which created and distributed the well-known battle royale shooter PUBG: Battlegrounds, is Krafton. The Callisto Protocol, which was initially planned to be a PUBG: Battlegrounds spinoff, was published by Krafton. In August, Krafton purchased the IP rights to Tango Gameworks' Hi-Fi Rush game from Microsoft in addition to the game studio (The Evil Within, Ghostwire: Tokyo, Hi-Fi Rush).

On January 19, Pocketpair released Palworld, a multiplayer survival game, on Steam Early Access. Within a month of its debut, 25 million people had played the game.

On September 24, the game—aside from Japan—was released for the PlayStation 5 system in 68 countries and territories. The date of the PlayStation 5 game's release in Japan is still pending.

Palworld Entertainment is the new joint company that Sony Music Entertainment Japan Inc., its subsidiary Aniplex, and Pocketpair have formed. This announcement was made in July.

On September 18, Nintendo and The Pokémon Company sued Pocketpair for patent infringement at the Tokyo District Court. The lawsuit alleges that the game violates the patents of Nintendo and The Pokémon Company. It also asks for damages to be awarded along with an injunction to stop the infringement. In response, Pocketpair said that it has "not been notified of such details" and that it is "unaware of the specific patents [it is] accused of infringing upon." The business declared that it will start looking into the claims and filing lawsuits.

At first, the designs of many of the game's "Pal" creatures were compared to the titular Pokémon from the Pokémon franchise by both players and critics. Shortly after Palworld's publication, The Pokémon firm declared in a statement that it was looking into a potential copyright violation by an unidentified video game firm.  

Source: Krafton via Gematsu, Gamebiz, Famitsu.com