**FIRST HALF**

- Palworld vs Nintendo update: Palworld released a statement confirming the 3 patents

- Suing for damages: roughly $33,000 to each company (Nintendo and Pokemon Company)

- An injunction to stop Palworld continuing to sell/make their game

- Patents include riding creatures you've caught and catching creatures within an object

- Netease found 9 employees were money laundering/accepting bribes, so fired them and passed on the details onto the police who have since arrested them for corruption

- Two of the employees were Senior Executives

- Netease have blacklisted 27 companies that were involved

- Reportedly the second internal anti-corruption investigation launched by NetEase since September 2023

**PEACHY'S INDIE SHOWCASE**

- Tricky Madness - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KwYoeS-Pno

- Rue Valley - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRFT2ffGF94

- Pizza Slice - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caAdN446w10

- Into the Grid - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uyftbKqvp8

**SECOND HALF**

- Peachy's played I am Future and Star Trucker

- Bryan watched Arcane season 2 (first 3 episodes) and is watching Dandadan (anime)

- Bryan is nearly done with God of War Ragnarok

- Pulp played the Last of Us and is playing The Last of Us Part II

**SMALLER TOPICS**

- Ubisoft's NFT game has been decimated by one single player that has found an exploit that auto-wins matches. He's won 56,000 matches so far rendering the game unplayable in 'ranked'.

- Two Gamers seek Class Action Suit against Ubisoft for delisting and taking down servers for The Crew

- It largely relies on the packaging of the physical copies the two bought, they allege the packaging implies the offline version of the game would always be available.