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. The game was eventually re-released by the publisher Ravenscourt in March 2021, who also published it in Europe and Australia in 2020. Office Create publicly issued a statement condemning the breach of contract on April 15, 2020. The game was briefly released before its official release date on the Nintendo Switch eShop on March 26, 2020, 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. 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). Cooking Mama: Cookstar (stylized as cookıng mama cookstar) is a cookery simulation-styled minigame compilation video game, and the sixth installment in the Cooking Mama series of video games.
