‘Pokemon Uranium’ Fan Game Shut Down by Nintendo After 1.5 Million Downloads

Game that took more than nine years to make was removed in about nine days

The fan-made “Pokemon Uranium” game took a pair of programmers more than nine years to develop. Nintendo needed just about nine days to kill it.

“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,” the creators of “Pokemon Uranium” said in a statement. “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,” they continued. “We have no connection to fans who re-upload the game files to their own hosts, and we cannot verify that those download links are all legitimate.

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