Pocketpair has shared a new blog post onto their website, detailing the ongoing lawsuit with Nintendo, changes made to Palworld, and what’s to come. If you recall, Nintendo filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Pocketpair back in September of 2024, alleging that multiple patents were used in Palworld. It wasn’t too surprising to see Nintendo sue, as they’re notoriously protective over their IPs, but it wasn’t clear what patents were infringed at the time.
Pocketpair has detailed updates they have made and will make to Palworld, in an effort to keep development and distribution of the game ongoing. According to the developer, the v.0.3.11 patch released back in November changed the ability to summon Pals to the overworld. Before the patch, you would summon Pals by throwing a Pal Sphere, similar to how you would send out Pokémon. After the patch, Pals are now summoned to the overworld without an animation, simply appearing next to the player.
It looks like in the upcoming patch v.0.5.5, Pocketpair will be changing another feature. Previously, you were able to glide around the world atop one of your Pals, but now it will simply be a glider. You must have a glider in your inventory to perform the action, but Pocketpair states that passive buffs from gliding would still be in place for Pals.
It’s not clear if these will be the final major changes to the game, but it seems Pocketpair isn’t going down without a fight. We’ll see how the lawsuit turns out in the coming months.
For further reading, you can also check out Nintendo’s press release.
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