Something juicy this way comes for you Cooking Mama fans out there.

Office Create, the creator & license holders of the Cooking Mama games recently pulled the plug on the latest game, Cooking Mama: Cookstar, due to quality concerns. Despite this, the publisher released the game. Keep in mind that developer 1st Playable are responsible for making Cookstar; the game has received a number of negative reviews for being “tedious” and “not doing its gameplay right”.

Initially, the game was on sale on the Nintendo Switch eShop at the end of March. It then vanished a couple of hours later according to IGN. Office Create said Cookstar was an “unauthorized” release.

“As many of you know, Planet Entertainment LLC (Headquarters: Connecticut, USA; ‘Planet’) recently released ‘Cooking Mama: Cookstar’ for sale in the U.S., Europe and Australia. This was an unauthorized release in breach of Planet’s contract with Office Create.”

The company will be “evaluating all legal action against Planet to protect our customers, intellectual property rights and the Cooking Mama series”. Also, they mentioned that an upcoming PS4 version of the game was not part of the agreement. Cooking Mama games have only appeared on Nintendo platforms and smartphones.

But wait, it gets worst…

A developer recently shed news on why and how this happened on a Screen Rant report.

“There is a legal battle between the publisher, Planet Entertainment and the IP holder, Office Create. Planet Entertainment released the game against a request by Office Create to keep polishing the game, or perhaps even canceling it.”

Once the game was released, Office Create requested Nintendo to pull the game from the eShop and halt physical copies of the game from being produced. 1st Playable countered on Twitter that this was a “dev spoof”.

The screenrant ‘article’ is a dev spoof and has no accurate dev information. To point out an obvious one, everyone on the team knew the release date, like any professional developer would. We can’t speak to who this person is or where they got their information. Not anyone here

— 1st Playable (@1stPlayable) April 7, 2020

There was also a rumour that Cooking Mama Cookstar was going to be one of the first few games to integrate blockchain technology by launching a new cryptocurrency called Rocket Tokens. Players can buy them for US$1 apiece to fund Planet Entertainment’s games and get dividends back based on profits from game sales. Unfortunately for cryptohounds, that isn’t the case.

As the developers we can say with certainty there is no cryptocurrency or data collection or blockchain or anything else shady in the code. The Nintendo Switch is a very safe platform, with none of the data and privacy issues associated with some mobile and PC games.

— 1st Playable (@1stPlayable) April 5, 2020

The internet is alive with rumors that Cooking Mama: Cookstar contains hidden cryptocurrency/blockchain capabilities that are causing the Switch to overheat. This is absolutely incorrect.

At Planet Entertainment, we explored both blockchain technology and cryptocurrency tokens.

— Mama Cookstar (@CookstarMama) April 6, 2020