2024

As promised, Blizzard has unveiled “the next chapter” of professional Overwatch esports: The Overwatch Champions Series, a multi-region competitive circuit that will culminate in two major tournaments at Dreamhack. The Overwatch Champions Series will be operated in North America, Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa by, an esports company owned by Saudi Arabia’s Savvy…

As is the case with so many survivalcraft games, Palworld is great for chilling, grinding, and crafting with your pals. The human ones, I mean, but also your Chikipis and Lamballs. Basic Palworld multiplayer allows up to 4-player co-op but community servers and dedicated servers can host up to 32 players. And although there is…

Sam Barlow’s studio Half Mermaid, the developer of Her Story, Telling Lies, and Immortality—one of highest-reviewed games of 2022—are teasing a pair of mysterious new projects on Steam called, mysteriously, Project C and Project D. The newly-arrived Steam pages for both new games are heavily redacted. The description for Project C opens with a biblical…

The dream of any sci-fi fan is a functioning holodeck. Just step into a humble room and be transported into another world, time period (probably in 1930’s Chicago, if you’re one particularly popular sci-fi TV show), get up to hijinks, and come crashing back into reality when it all goes dreadfully wrong. Well, sci-fi fans,…

Palworld continues its runaway success, and after selling more than 6 million copies in just four days the developers now have another reason to celebrate: it’s managed to grab the second spot in Steam’s most played games when it comes to all-time peak concurrents.  The critter-based survival game is giving every other game in the…