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Game Freak Leak - What Went Down and How It Will Affect Nintendo

Wan Amirul Adlan, Senior Games Journalist, Nmia Gaming

04-Nov-24 20:00

Game Freak Leak - What Went Down and How It Will Affect Nintendo

As the world awaits for Nintendo to officially announce the Nintendo Switch 2, their most successful developer, Game Freak suffered a major mishap - their servers were hacked, and that led to a slew of sensitive information being leaked online. From concept arts to unreleased and upcoming projects, as well as questionable lore, fans went crazy over these items. But how will it affect Game Freak and Nintendo? We go through what happened and its potential consequences.

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Produced by: Haniff Baharudin, Estelle Siow, Julian Yap

Presented by: Haniff Baharudin, Daryl Ong


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