The Fossil Fighters series has always seemed like a strange one to me, being a rather blatant Pokémon clone but with the hook of being all about dinosaurs instead of anime monsters, and the fact that it’s published by Nintendo makes it all the stranger. My notions towards it though were preconceived, as I hadn’t played any of the games in the series up to this point. Well with a new entry, Fossil Fighters: Frontier, releasing on the 3DS just last week, now felt like as good a time as any to educate myself and see if maybe there was more to this franchise than I was giving it credit for. After chomping and stomping my way through a majority of the game, I can say that this saurian-flavoured monster catching simulator does have some unique aspects which separate it from its more popular kin, though it’s clearly designed for a very specific audience.
- Matt Broitman, HalfBeard's HUD
A new 24GHz wireless accessory has been filed with the FCC.
Where does the time go?
Nintendo and Pokemon Company have filed a lawsuit against Pocketpair Inc., the creators of Palworld, in Tokyo, Japan.
A patent lawsuit? What Pokémon-related patent could Palworld even be infringing that other similar games haven't? This makes no sense. Feels like Nintendo just trying to throw its weight around to bully competitors, just like they do with emulators even though they're legal.
They can't Innovate their own IP, but when others are breaking the ceiling, they run to the courts, gtfo Nintendo/Gamefreak.
Companies' gatekeeping mechanics behind the patent system to stifle innovation, consumers will always pick the better product, it's not the consumer's fault that Gamefreak has sat on their lazy assess for years.
The Palworld has been out since January of 2024 and now Nintendo finally decides to do something. I fail to see how Palworld is like Pokemon besides evolving monsters. There are other games out there as well where you can capture and level up monsters. Tales of Symphonia 2 does that capture monsters and have them fight with you and they evolve when levelling up. The two games might share some similarities but what game doesn't borrow from another game. I could understand if Palworld was just a straight on copy clone of Pokemon but it's not. Nintendo is starting to become a pain in the ass. Going full gung ho with rom sites that I can see, purposely taking down pictures from a strategy guide for Mario 64 the strategy guide never came to North America and Nintendo had the pictures taken down. Where does it every stop with Nintendo?
This feels like a scare tactic more than anything else. There's nothing here dozens of other games haven't already done, they're just mad this game showed people how much the pokemon series has been slackin and are desperately trying to make an example out of them.
How's about instead of spending all that money on court fees and lawyers you invest it into making pokémon better?