Video Game Cooking Mama Is Being Accused Of Using Player's Consoles To Mine Bitcoin

Cooking Mama: Cookstar, a videogame for the switch console, is being accused of mining cryptocurrency after being removed from Nintendo’s eShop just hours after its release.

According to a report from Daily Hodl, with no official statement as to why the game was abruptly pulled, rumors began circulating on social media platforms that Cooking Mama was using players’ Nintendo Switch consoles to mine Bitcoin (BTC) and cryptocurrency.

The claims seemingly stem from the fact that the game’s publisher originally said that the game would utilize blockchain technology.

1st Playable, the developer of Cooking Mama: Cookstar, denied the claims in a tweet saying, “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 official twitter for the game also released some tweets on Sunday saying, “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.”

While the official twitter does admit to looking into cryptocurrency and blockchain technology as a way to trade in game assets, it denies every actually implementing them in the game.

According to a report from Screen Rant on Monday, one of the game’s developers says that the game was pulled because of an ongoing legal battle between the game’s publisher, Planet Entertainment, and the intellectual property holder, Office Create.

By Ramsey Baker

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