Cooking Mama is the type of game that one wouldn’t expect to draw controversy, but in the past several weeks the cooking sim franchise’s latest release, Cooking Mama: Cookstar, stirred up problems with its release on Nintendo Switch. Specifically, conflicts between the game’s publisher Planet Entertainment and Cooking Mama IP holder Office Create have escalated, with
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Since its release, Cooking Mama: Cookstar has been surrounded by much controversy after it was pulled from the Nintendo eShop without explanation. Rumors began stirring that it was mining cryptocurrency and allegations thrown that it overheated Nintendo Switches. According to Screenrant, an anonymous developer from the 1st Playable development team reached out to the publication