Palworld is the game that asks the disturbing yet fundamentally sensible question: What if Team Rocket had access to a large cache of HK416s and maybe some M72 LAW rockets? After all, pulling little monsters out of your pocket and making them fight might be cute but if you’re serious about getting things done, hardware…
Last month at The Game Awards we finally got our first look at Sean Murray’s followup to No Man’s Sky—and it’s a huge one. In its next game, Light No Fire, Hello Games is trading infinite procedural planets for a single world, but that one open world is going to be the size of an…
Three years after it was first revealed, the Indiana Jones game in development at MachineGames is finally ready for the spotlight. Microsoft announced today that the upcoming game will take center stage at the next Developer Direct showcase, set to take place on January 18. Despite all the time that’s passed since the Indiana Jones…
One of the most surprising games to come out last year was Honkai: Star Rail, an action game disguised as a turn-based strategy game. Its characters perform anime-style fighting moves that take up the entire screen. It’s the flashiest RPG I’ve played in years. It’s so good that I can’t see myself ever going back…
Way before I sunk hundreds of hours into Final Fantasy 14, I watched it die and eventually return with A Realm Reborn in 2013. The major rework of FF14’s entire world was a critical moment for the MMO that shaped the next 11 years of the game. The most recent expansion, Endwalker, was still tying…
The venerable online shooter Tribes made a surprise comeback in late 2023 as Tribes 3: Rivals, and with a launch set to happen later this year developer Prophecy Games has announced the first Rival Rumble tournament, an open-to-all competition that’s set to get underway on January 27. The tournament could be a big one: Entry…
HBO’s The Last of Us has finally unveiled its Abby and it’s Kaitlyn Dever, the actor known for her roles in Booksmart, No One Will Save You, and that other Naughty Dog game you may have heard of, Uncharted 4. “Our casting process for season two has been identical to season one: we look for…
A month ahead of launch, the developers of co-op shooter Helldivers 2 have dropped two pleasing bits of news on Steam. One, the PlayStation-published game will support crossplay at launch, meaning anyone on PC will be able to party up with pals on the PS5 to shoot bugs in cross platform harmony. Two, the PC…
“I am a huge Katsuhiro Otomo fan”. If you’ve played the cult classic Neo Geo shooter Last Resort, then you’ll almost certainly have noticed that the opening level’s cityscape is very similar to the one seen in Katsuhiro Otomo’s seminal 1988 anime, Akira. It’s one of the many instances where popular media has inspired video…
Hey Xbox Insiders! We have a new Xbox Update Preview coming to the Omega ring. It’s important we note that some updates made in these preview OS builds include background improvements that ensure a quality and stable build for Xbox consoles. We continue to post these release notes, even when the noticeable changes to the…