Posted 1/24/2024, 12:16:37 AM
Controversial 'Palworld' Game With Twisted Pokémon Premise Quickly Gains Traction, Prompts Nintendo Takedown
- Palworld is an indie game that has quickly attracted over 6 million sales and 1 million concurrent players by essentially being a twisted version of Pokémon with guns and violence
- The game allows players to capture, exploit, and even eat cute creatures called "Pals" to survive in its world
- Nintendo filed a takedown against a popular streamer who created a Palworld mod to use actual Pokémon characters
- Palworld has "vampire attacked" Nintendo and Pokémon by giving fans a more mature, unhinged version of the monster collector genre
- This copycat approach reminds the author of permissionless innovation in crypto, where projects can fork and build on existing code to meet user demand