Palworld Pokémon Mods Taken Out by Nintendo, Base Game Still Safe Despite Copying Evidence

Nintendo recently shared their earnings for the third quarter of their 2024 fiscal year (which runs from April 1, 2023 to March 31, 2024) and, as we reported, it was a good three months for the company with the Switch inching closer to edging out the PS2 as the best-selling console ever. Overall, the first three quarters of FY2024 have set a record for the company, with them bringing in ¥408 billion (or about $2.8 billion). But what about what comes next?

Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 has been a predictably big hit, but despite that, the game has seen surprisingly little in terms of post-launch and content beyond the usual big-fixing patches. A New Game+ mode was promised to arrive before the end of 2023, but was ultimately pushed back to sometime in 2024. Well, it seems that sometime will be early next month, as Insomniac have announced New Game+, some new Spidey suits, and more is coming in early March.

A Palworld player is showing off their incredible base within the game, creating a multi-level compound with a variety of different rooms and structures. The launch of the mix of monster-catching and survival games from Pocket Pair has seen overwhelming success with both fans and critics. The game has seen praise for its unique take on the monster-catching genre, combining the Pokemon-like Pals with crafting and base-building elements common in games like Minecraft and Rust. One of the biggest draws of the game for many fans has been its extensive base-building mechanics.

A modder has released several Palworld PC mods that improve the game's visuals and add FSR2/XeSS upscaling support.

Nexus Mods — one of the biggest modding sites on the internet — has confirmed it won't be hosting Pokémon-themed Palworld mods, saying doing so would «almost certainly… put us at risk of legal action» given Nintendo's history of litigiousness.

The “Pokemon with guns” open-world survival game Palworld has been on one a hell of a run since launching last week, smashing records and generating plenty of controversy, but once all the fevered excitement dies down just a little, what comes next? Palworld is still in early access, so there are plenty more updates to come, and today developer PocketPair provided a bit of a roadmap.

Nexus Mods will not host Pokemon mods for Palworld out of a fear of legal action from Nintendo.

As soon as the Internet first got its first look at juggernaut-to-be Palworld, many began accusing it of looking a lot like, well, let’s not play that game — you know what I’m talking about.

became an overnight success as soon as it hit Early Access on PC and Xbox, breaking records and smashing expectations as players wanted to see what the so-called " with guns" game was all about. While the open-world survival game does share some similar characteristics to, it was quickly discovered to be much more than that. The addictive little title is now a hot topic in the gaming community despite still being limited to the Xbox for console players.

Nintendo has cracked down on the first Pokemon mod for Palworld. The copyright-infringing mod that adds both Pokemon creatures and characters to Palworld was first teased by its creator yesterday, January 22.

The creator of a viral Palworld mod that brought Pokemon and company to the new hit survival game says they still want to release it – they just have to figure out how to avoid a Nintendo lawsuit first. 

Only three days after Palworld launched, which fans have been calling 'Pokemon with guns' since it was announced anyway, someone made a mod that turned the player into Ash Ketchum and Pals into 'mons. But less than a day later, it has already been taken down by Nintendo.