The bizarre chain of events revolving around Cooking Mama: Cookstar continues to play out. The latest update to the story sees Planet Entertainment, the game's publisher, respond to the press release made earlier this week by Cooking Mama IP holder Office Create. According to Office Create, Planet Entertainment no longer has the right to sell copies of Cookstar, but it looks like the latter disagrees. According to Planet, they were "fully within its rights to publish Cooking Mama Cookstar", continuing to claim that there is no active litigation or court ruling that prevents the company from publishing and by extension, selling copies of the game. They also state that the game has had "overwhelming positive response", and wish Office Create well. Whether or not we'll see more happen in the ongoing Cooking Mama drama, remains to be seen.

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[XDel]

It's down to this... these are dark days when we are talking about titles such as Cooking Mamma as if it were worthy video game news.

And now back to Half-Life...

 

[Joom]

Welp, Planet is never gonna find work again. They're even a US based company and can't even handle proper grammar. Anyway, there's been a response to this.
http://www.ofcr.co.jp/ofcr/ImportantNotice_en.html

 

[Chary]

It's down to this... these are dark days when we are talking about titles such as Cooking Mamma as if it were worthy video game news.

And now back to Half-Life...

News doesn't care if you don't like a franchise or not lol. You've made the same commentary before, as if everything going on in the gaming industry is so uninteresting except for AAA shooters. Cooking Mama's existence as a niche series doesn't take away from the fact that there's possible illegal publishing of a video game and the odd back and forth involving this game's rumored blockchain miner drama, it being taken off sale for no reason, it coming back on sale, Office Create possibly calling in a favor to Nintendo to have it pulled from sale on the eShop, and Planet Entertainment's broken english mess of a response. To many, that's ridiculous and interesting enough for them. I'm sorry an entire industry of entertainment doesn't cater perfectly to your desires.

 

[Scarlet]

News doesn't care if you don't like a franchise or not lol. You've made the same commentary before, as if everything going on in the gaming industry is so uninteresting except for AAA shooters. Cooking Mama's existence as a niche series doesn't take away from the fact that there's possible illegal publishing of a video game and the odd back and forth involving this game's rumored blockchain miner drama, it being taken off sale for no reason, it coming back on sale, Office Create possibly calling in a favor to Nintendo to have it pulled from sale on the eShop, and Planet Entertainment's broken english mess of a response. To many, that's ridiculous and interesting enough for them. I'm sorry an entire industry of entertainment doesn't cater perfectly to your desires.

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cooking mama cookstars is a cooking simulation game for the nintendo switch

 

[xdarkx]

Welp, Planet is never gonna find work again. They're even a US based company and can't even handle proper grammar. Anyway, there's been a response to this.
http://www.ofcr.co.jp/ofcr/ImportantNotice_en.html

Chary already posted that response yesterday.

 

[Ericthegreat]

This is really weird, has the game been reinstated?

 

[Hambrew]

ooooooh boy, I got a good feeling about this game's future on digital storefronts

 

[WhiteMaze]

Watch my mom walk in here and sue both Office Create and Planet Entertainment, for releasing and developing a game franchise copying her personal image, likeness and behavior without her consent..

She's the real cooking mama. And boy do I miss her cooking.

 

[gudenau]

Guess it's time for the lawyers to get paid.

 

[XDel]

News doesn't care if you don't like a franchise or not lol. You've made the same commentary before, as if everything going on in the gaming industry is so uninteresting except for AAA shooters. Cooking Mama's existence as a niche series doesn't take away from the fact that there's possible illegal publishing of a video game and the odd back and forth involving this game's rumored blockchain miner drama, it being taken off sale for no reason, it coming back on sale, Office Create possibly calling in a favor to Nintendo to have it pulled from sale on the eShop, and Planet Entertainment's broken english mess of a response. To many, that's ridiculous and interesting enough for them. I'm sorry an entire industry of entertainment doesn't cater perfectly to your desires.

What's that you say? I was busy playing a REAL video game.

 

[MiiJack]

The overcooked their brain I say. The company's future is good as dead.

 

[the_randomizer]

Ain't publishing rights and IP ownership a bitch?

 

[Silent_Gunner]

The grammar in their response is glorious

Still not as bad as UNIB's English translations...

 

[PrincessLillie]

By the time this controversy reaches its peak, it'll be overcooked. Mama's really gonna scold us on this one!

 

[Mark McDonut]

What about the crypto miner packed into it that violates the TOS with Nintendo? Were they within their rights to release it in that state too? Good god.

 

[8BitWonder]

What about the crypto miner packed into it that violates the TOS with Nintendo? Were they within their rights to release it in that state too? Good god.

There wasn't one, that's been debunked for a while now.

 

[Bladexdsl]

cooking BUMMER!

 

[Sonic Angel Knight]

Okay I'm a bit late... or slow, but what did I miss? Cause I'm completely lost on this subject.

 

[Bladexdsl]

Okay I'm a bit late... or slow, but what did I miss? Cause I'm completely lost on this subject.

tl;dr these guys want to release the game, someone won't let them but they reckon they have the rights to release it anyway

 

[Sonic Angel Knight]

tl;dr these guys want to release the game, someone won't let them but they reckon they have the rights to release it anyway

Well this seems confusing so... okay. Uhh... not sure this happened before, so not sure what to say about it.