The latest book in the Visual Compendium series from Bitmap Books has been shelved due to legal issues. Find out more
Where does the time go?
Microsoft seems to be stopping from selling Xbox consoles in the Middle East, and will only focus on PC Game Pass and accessories.
Just pull Xbox worldwide and go 3rd party. You’ve done nothing good for the gaming industry.
Thats what they are doing , just slowly like a bandaid, they don't want the xbox fans to notice and have a sook on social media, they want it to go almost unnoticed, that is until they don't release another console and the 4 people still buying xbox products go "hey wait a minute, where is the new xbox, the ps6 is out"
lol Sony: locks out some gamers from games because psn is not available in their country
MS: completely takes away the Xbox in a country.
This gen for gaming is weird.
They're heading that way for sure....The writing has been on the wall for ages for the trained eye. All that phillness bs about xbox owners not being 2nd class citizens......then again, maybe that wasn't a lie when I check it....they're actually 3rd class in the eye of MS gaming.
@Jin_Sakai amazing idea! lets make Sony the sole player in high end gaming video game industry! I am pretty sure that a company like Sony who has never taken advantage of consumers, will graciously accept the monopoly role by providing players with good deals, customer friendly policies and low prices /s
Oh wait..
Nintendo and Pokemon Company have filed a lawsuit against Pocketpair Inc., the creators of Palworld, in Tokyo, Japan.
Ye, Custom Robo Arena was a lot better than Pokemon anyways, now that's a game.
Interestingly this comes like a day after they announced they would be at the Tokyo Games Show.
We should all really hope so. Otherwise, this could lead to many issues, as they hold patents on numerous game mechanics. And when I say numerous, I truly mean it. Take this one, for example:
"Abstract: In an example of a game program, a ground boarding target object or an air boarding target object is selected by a selection operation, and a player character is caused to board the selected boarding target object. If the player character aboard the air boarding target object moves toward the ground, the player character is automatically changed to the state where the player character is aboard the ground boarding target object, and brought into the state where the player character can move on the ground."
In plain English, do you guys remember that super amazing mechanic where you surf on the water with a Pokémon, and then when you hit land, it changes to you walking? Yeah, they patented that.
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.
You can't argue with _subjective_ taste. Some people are going to like games you find crappy. I'm happy not everyone has the same taste.
@swedishMeatwad
PS5 Pro is obviously objectively the better product when compared to the base PS5, but the majority of consumers interested in a PS5 will not be picking Pro over base PS5.
There are countless examples like this out there.
Rather you like it or not COD has many accessible options and customization that allows for better experience than most other FPS.
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?
It's because Palworld became a worldwide viral success. Nintendo can't fathom someone else being that popular when it comes to a small monster catching game.
Nintendo is only acting now because they just finished a lawsuit which they won.
https://www.nintendolife.co...
Atlus should get on this and sue Nintendo as SMT came out before Pokemon. If Nintendo is going to play this game.
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?
I think if it was a scare tactic it would have happened when the game came out I have a feeling they've been building a case for a while
It did happen even before the game came out, they tried several tomes before and nothing came of it
Shame. Bitmap books produce good stuff.
If anyone is curious about their service, I ordered direct with them online from outside the UK and received my book promptly and undamaged in solid packaging.
But there's a Master System Visual Compendium. Why do Sega have such a hardon for this one? Unless there's some trivia or other information in there that they don't want anyone to know about.
didn't even know this was a thing