Like all overnight successes, Palworld’s sudden emergence as 2024’s first bona-fide viral hit has a much longer history. If you’re wondering why this slightly jank Pokémon-aping survival sim suddenly took over every feed going, in the process racing to 7 million sales and counting, then the answer has a ton of elements to it: though…
Palworld mods are already racing out the gate to expand options and tweak gameplay in the year’s biggest surprise hit so far. There aren’t a huge number of mods available for Palworld yet—it only just released—and what mods there are may be intermittently broken by future updates. Palworld is in early access, and developer Pocketpal…
And discuss Nintendo’s original response. The new “open-world survival and crafting game” Palworld has become insanely popular overnight, with sales surpassing the seven million mark and now supposedly overtaking first-week records of games like Pokémon Legends: Arceus. Of course, there’s also been a lot of debate about this game online – mostly in regards to…
EXS to impress. Japanese developer Frenchbread’s phenomenal anime fighter, Under Night In-Birth Exe:Late, impressed the heck out of us when it dropped in its final revised form on Switch back in 2020. Nabbing a 9/10 score in our review, it quickly became one of those very special games that we just straight-up refuse to ever…
Demeo is a videogame take on tabletop dungeon crawling that we quite liked: Weekend editor Jody Macgregor described it as “like having the Monster Manual thrown at your face,” but in a mostly good way. Now Resolution Games, the studio behind that game, is taking Demeo’s D&D roots a big step further in a partnership…
Only five days post-launch, Palworld has sold over seven million copies and become the second game ever to log over two million concurrent players on Steam. Its unexpectedly absurd level of success has led to much speculation over the source of its appeal—as well as some condemnation—but the simple notion that it’s “Pokémon with guns”…
If you’re trying to figure out how the heck to find kindling in Palworld, what you’re actually looking for is the work suitabilities of your Pals. You’ll likely first encounter the work suitability system when crafting a campfire and see the “requires kindling” notice above it. Here’s what you need to know about how to…
I’m currently in my fighting game training arc, and I gotta be real with you: It’s been a bumpy road. It’s not easy to do away with those button-mashing habits, and taking a fighting game seriously for the first time can be a dizzying info dump with all that frame data, move list and optimal…
After a wild two-year ride that saw it forced off Steam over allegations of source code theft, the “multiplayer war sandbox game” Myth of Empires is set to launch on Steam on February 21. For those who want to see what the game behind the kerfuffle is really all about, a closed technical test is…
Palworld probably isn’t going to have a meaningful impact on the direction of Pokémon games long term, but it absolutely might be charting the course for a whole new trend in survival crafting games: the era of little dudes with little jobs in your massive, NPC-automated bases. Survival crafting games blew up after Minecraft in…