Cooking Mama: Cookstar

Cooking Mama: Cookstar
Developer(s)1st Playable Productions
Publisher(s)Planet Entertainment (first North American release)
Ravenscourt (European, Australian, and second North American releases)
Composer(s)Sara Sakurai
Satoshi Okubo
Masayoshi Ishi
SeriesCooking Mama
EngineUnity
Platform(s)Nintendo Switch
PlayStation 4
ReleaseNintendo Switch
PlayStation 4
  • NA: March 25, 2021
  • AU: July 23, 2021[5]
Genre(s)Simulation, minigame
Mode(s)Single-player only

Cooking Mama: Cookstar (stylized as cookıng mama cookstar) was a cookery simulation-styled minigame compilation video game, and the sixth installment in the Cooking Mama series of video games. The game was the first entry in the Cooking Mama series since Cooking Mama 5: Bon Appétit! (2014), and the first Cooking Mama game to release on a home console since Cooking Mama: World Kitchen (2008) or Babysitting Mama (2010).

The game was briefly released before its official release date on the Nintendo Switch eShop on March 26, 2020,[6] but was taken down just a few hours later due to legal issues between the publisher, Planet Entertainment, and the owner of the Cooking Mama intellectual property (IP), Office Create. Office Create publicly issued a statement condemning the breach of contract on April 15, 2020. The game was eventually re-released by the publisher Ravenscourt in March 2021, who also published it in Europe and Australia in 2020. Cooking Mama: Cookstar is no longer available for purchase as of November 2022, when the International Court of Arbitration ruled that Office Create's IP rights had been infringed by the game and granted their request to have it removed from sale.[7] After its removal, it was revamped into another game called Yum Yum Cookstar.[8]

  1. ^ Smith, Alex (April 13, 2020). "Where to buy the elusive new Cooking Mama: Cookstar game for Nintendo Switch". Android Central. Retrieved April 28, 2020.
  2. ^ "Cooking Mama: Cookstar | JB Hi-Fi". JB Hi-Fi. Retrieved July 23, 2021.
  3. ^ NinFan (February 24, 2020). "Cooking Mama: Cookstar could have been delayed until April". iGamesNewsl. Retrieved April 28, 2020.
  4. ^ "Cooking Mama: Cookstar – Release Details". GameFAQs. Retrieved April 29, 2020.
  5. ^ EB Games Australia [@EBGamesAus] (July 23, 2021). "Get ready to cook up a storm, Cooking Mama: Cookstar is OUT NOW on PlayStation 4!". Retrieved July 23, 2021 – via Twitter.
  6. ^ rawmeatcowboy (March 26, 2020). "Cooking Mama: Cookstar was available to download for a short time today, but has since mysteriously vanished". GoNintendo. Retrieved April 29, 2020.
  7. ^ Carter, Justin (November 17, 2022). "Arbitration ruling declares Cooking Mama: Cookstar must be delisted". Game Developer. Retrieved November 17, 2022.
  8. ^ Cite error: The named reference YumYum was invoked but never defined (see the help page).