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Office Create announced that it is considering legal action against Planet Entertainment, the publisher of Cooking Mama: Cookstar, due to the “unauthorised” release of the game.
Planet Entertainment allegedly breached its contract with the Japanese company by continuing to produce and release a Cooking Mama game even though the company revoked its rights to the intellectual property. In 2018, Planet Entertainment had a prototype of a Cooking Mama game, but the “quality of the game builds failed to meet the standards that our customers expect and deserve,” said Office Create.
“Yet, despite being contractually obligated to correct the identified deficiencies and resubmit the corrected game for Office Create’s approval, Planet proceeded to release Cooking Mama: Cookstar without addressing all of the rejections and without Office Create’s approval,” stated the Japanese company. “On March 30, 2020, Office Create notified Planet of its immediate termination of the license due to Planet’s intentional material breach of the license contract. Despite such notice, Planet continues to advertise and sell the unauthorised version of Cooking Mama: Cookstar on its website in willful violation of Office Create’s rights.”
Office Create added that it has never permitted a publisher to produce a Cooking Mama game for the PlayStation 4. Planet Entertainment has previously stated that Cookstar would be arriving on the Nintendo Switch and the PlayStation 4, though there has been no news on the latter. If it does exist, it is one more instance of Planet Entertainment’s breach of contract with Office Create. The Japanese company is “evaluating all legal action against Planet to protect our customers, intellectual property rights and the Cooking Mama series,” and expresses regret for the “confusion and disappointment that has been caused by Planet’s conduct.”
