The latest Diablo 4 season might have the fastest way to earn XP ever, but Blizzard is going to let you make it even faster next week. On February 6, Diablo 4’s Lunar Awakening event will sprinkle Sanctuary, and its dungeons, with unique Shrines that boost your XP gains by 50% for 30 seconds when…
Monster-collecting survival game Palworld has amassed an astonishing 19 million players, and that extraordinary success isn’t coming cheap for its indie developer: Palworld’s projected February server costs are over 70 million yen, according to a post from Pocketpair CEO Takuro Mizobe. That comes to over $475,000 USD. “Wait, maybe we’ll go bankrupt from server fees?”…
At the start of January we predicted 2024 would be a strong year for Japanese games, but we weren’t quite ready for the very first month of the year to knock our socks off. There’s never been a Japanese indie game like Palworld—in just two weeks in January the early access survival game sold 12…
Get the popcorn in, because I swear it’s true. A cross-chain lending platform called Abracadabra Money has confirmed that an exploit allowed one user to drain at least $6.49 million in Ethereum-based stablecoins from its protocol (first spotted by Web3isgoinggreat). Fair warning that this story involves a bunch of crypto jargon which I’ll try to…
In what I think qualifies as an unexpected bit of casting, HBO has announced that Catherine O’Hara, known for her work in television and movies including Schitt’s Creek, Beetlejuice, and Home Alone, is joining the cast of HBO’s The Last of Us in an undisclosed role. HBO has already made a number of new casting…
We’ve known since mid-2021 that Skate, the free-to-play reboot of the long-running skateboard sim that was first announced back in 2020, will be coming to PC. And now we know where: In a brief video clip shared on Twitter, EA finally confirmed that Skate will land on Steam. The announcement was about as brief as…
Learn how to make South Indian food. If you’ve played Venba, which launched on Nintendo Switch in July 2023, and you love cooking, you probably had one big question at the end of the game — how do I make all of that delicious food? Thankfully, the team at Visai Games have a solution that’ll…
“I’ve been working on survival games for quite a while,” says Seth Rosen as we chat over Zoom. “Funnily enough, I don’t like them.” That is pretty funny, because Rosen was technical designer for Klei Entertainment’s Don’t Starve: Reign of Giants and project lead for Don’t Starve Together, eternally one of the most popular games…
Yasuhara’s David. Soapbox features enable our individual writers and contributors to voice their opinions on hot topics and random stuff they’ve been chewing over. Today, to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Sonic the Hedgehog 3, Ollie sings the praises of the game’s third zone, Marble Garden… I used to own a Sega Mega Drive when…
Palworld is an undeniably huge hit, despite debate still raging as to whether its Pokémon-like creature designs are overly similar, plagiarized or even stolen. Beyond those creatures, Palworld isn’t very Pokémon-like at all—but it is quite a bit like another survival crafting sandbox: Ark: Survival Evolved. You know, the one with the dinosaurs. Why have…