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Friday18th Nov 2022
News Cooking Mama IP Holder Sues Planet Entertainment For Sale Of Cooking Mama: Cookstar
Mama is not happy!
Remember the ongoing dispute between Cooking Mama: Cookstar publisher Planet Entertainment and the series' rights holder Office Create dating back to 2020? Well, in an update, Planet has now been sued by Office Create. There was actually a fallout between the two parties before the game's release in 2020, but Planet Entertainment...
Thursday16th Apr 2020
News Planet Entertainment Says It's "Fully Within Its Rights" To Publish Cooking Mama: Cookstar
"Office Create has our total respect"
Yesterday, the rights holder of the Cooking Mama series - Office Create - issued an important notice about how Cooking Mama: Cookstar was an "unauthorized release" by Planet Entertainment. Now, Planet Entertainment has shared its own statement, which attempts to clear up "the
Wednesday15th Apr 2020
News Cooking Mama's IP Holder Evaluating Legal Options, After "Unauthorized Release" Of Cookstar
Mama is mad!
The IP holder and creator of Cooking Mama, Office Create, has released an important notice explaining how Cooking Mama: Cookstar was an "unauthorized release" by Planet Entertainment. The statement also mentions how the Japanese-based company is now evaluating all of its legal options against Planet, in order to protect its customers,...
Friday10th Apr 2020
Trust Mama
If you're still at all interested in picking up a copy of Cooking Mama: Cookstar on the Nintendo Switch after all the commotion, but can't seem to find one, publisher Planet Entertainment is now selling physical copies for $59.99 USD on the game's official website. Here's the apparent reason behind this decision: Planet Entertainment
Tuesday7th Apr 2020
"As everybody is aware, the whole world is upside down with delays right now"
Cooking Mama: Cookstar has gone from eShop also-ran to front-page news in the space of a weekend. A few days ago, IGN reported that the Switch title was released on the US Switch eShop last week, but has since been pulled. This extends to multiple other regions including...
Saturday29th Feb 2020
Video 12 Exciting New Games Coming To Nintendo Switch In March
Game on!
This is it, the month we've all been waiting for. After a small delay, Animal Crossing: New Horizons will finally be made available to Switch owners worldwide on 20th March. Believe it or not, but there are other games also being released this month as well. If lifestyle sims aren't your thing, the Pokémon Mystery Dungeon series is also...
Wednesday19th Feb 2020
News It Looks Like Cooking Mama: Cookstar Will Be Released On The Switch Next Month
Mama knows best
A trailer uploaded on ahead of schedule on the Dutch game store website, Nedgame, appears to have leaked the release window of Cooking Mama: Cookstar. According to the video, the game releases this March on the Nintendo Switch and will be available for US$39.99 (or the regional equivalent). If you're not familiar with the Cooking...
Friday23rd Aug 2019
Random Cooking Mama: Cookstar Receives Award From PETA For Including Vegetarian Mode
Mamma mia
Animal rights organisation PETA normally makes video game headlines when it calls out a particular title for this or that, but this time it's rather different. Cooking Mama - a series that has been under fire from the animal rights advocate in the past - has received a "Proggy Award" ("Proggy" translating to "progress") for adding in a...
Wednesday14th Aug 2019
News First Cooking Mama: Cookstar Info And Screenshots Revealed
Over 90 new recipes to master
At the beginning of the month, we learned that Cooking Mama: Cookstar was headed to Switch thanks to appearances on two different ratings boards. Now, the first screenshots and pieces of gameplay info have been revealed. The new info has been shared online by both
Sunday11th Aug 2019
News Cooking Mama For Switch Will Feature A Vegetarian Mode And Blockchain Tech
Mama knows best
It turns out Cooking Mama has been actually been preparing her next game for quite a while now. After Australian and German classifications were thought to have lifted the lid on the new Switch game, Cooking Mana: Cookstar, it's now been discovered this same title was originally announced way back in February. In a press release...
Tuesday6th Aug 2019
News Looks Like We're Getting A New Cooking Mama Game On Switch
Cooking Mama: Cookstar
Although it isn't actually developed by Nintendo, Cooking Mama is a series which has certainly made the company's platforms its home. We've seen a total of seven games appear exclusively on Nintendo machines in the past, with just the original game also seeing a release elsewhere on iOS. Now, it would appear the next game in...
