Pokemon Uranium is a fan-made project that released two days ago after nine years in development. Now, after two days of life and 1.5 million downloads, the creators have pulled all the download links for the game from their site.
The creators of Pokemon Uranium say the removal of the game was not the result of a cease & desist letter from Nintendo. They have, however been “notified of multiple takedown notices” and don’t want to take any risks.
Here is the full statement:
After receiving more than 1,500,000 downloads of our game, we have been notified of multiple takedown notices from lawyers representing Nintendo of America.
While we have not personally been contacted, it’s clear what their wishes are, and we respect those wishes deeply.
Therefore, we will no longer provide official download links for the game through our website.
We have no connection to fans who reupload the game files to their own hosts, and we cannot verify that those download links are all legitimate. We advise you to be extremely cautious about downloading the game from unofficial sources.
We are blown away by the response this game has received, and we thank you all so much for your outstanding support.
We will continue to provide Pokémon Uranium-related news and updates through our official channels.
You are welcome to continue discussing and sharing content related to the game on our forums and Discord, where there is a very active community.
Thank you for reading, and let’s share the love of Pokémon!
This follows the removal of Project AM2R from its creator’s site after four years of development and one day of life. Nintendo is well known for its lack of tolerance for fan projects that violate their IPs.
