Yes, Nintendo Is Aware Of Palworld’s Existence

But it won’t comment on “individual cases”. Palworld, the new “open-world survival and crafting game”, has become an overnight sensation and it’s got pretty much everyone in gaming and the industry talking about it. Of course, there are two parties many are waiting to hear from and one of them happens to be Nintendo –…

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League Of Legends Developer Riot Games Axes 530 Jobs Globally

“Around 11% of Rioters”. Riot Games, the American-based developer and publisher behind insanely popular game series like League of Legends, has today announced it will be eliminating 530 jobs globally across the company. This equates to “around 11% of Rioters” and the biggest impacts have hit teams “outside of core development”. In a lengthy message…

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How to set up a dedicated server in Palworld

Palworld dedicated servers can host up to 32 players combing through its islands for Pokémon-like monsters and valuable resources. Developer Pocketpair has plans to increase that number in a future update, as well as add an in-game method for server hosting. Right now, though, hosting your own Palworld dedicated server takes a few extra steps….

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Dragon’s Dogma 2’s director didn’t want his game to rely on fast travel: ‘Travel is boring? That’s not true. It’s only an issue because your game is boring’

In a recent interview with IGN, Dragon’s Dogma 2 director Hideaki Itsuno didn’t mince words when it comes to his preference for actually exploring open worlds instead of zipping around via the map menu express: “Travel is boring? That’s not true. It’s only an issue because your game is boring. All you have to do…

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Riot lays off 530 employees, will close Riot Forge: ‘We’re not doing this to appease shareholders or to hit some quarterly earnings number,’ says CEO

Riot Games has announced that it’s “refocusing on fewer, high-impact projects” to move “toward a more sustainable future,” and that means layoffs: Roughly 530 employees, representing 11% of Riot’s total workforce, have been let go. In an email sent to employees, Riot CEO Dylan Jadeja said that the company has made “a number of big…

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Palworld accused of copying Pokémon models, developer pushes back, says artists are being slandered

Ludicrously successful Pokémon parody survival game Palworld, which has sold four million copies in just days, has come under the microscopes of internet detectives who think its 100 Pokémon-like monsters go beyond parody into straight-up rip-off territory. The head of Palworld developer Pocketpair, Takuro Mizobe, said on X today that “slanderous” comments are being made…

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Blizzard confirms you can’t dress up your spider companions in Diablo 4 season 3, but at least you can pet them

When Diablo 4’s Season of the Construct begins, everyone will have a robot spider crawling along beside them. In all the footage Blizzard has released leading up to tomorrow’s season launch, the little spider always looks like the Dwarven spiders from Skyrim. Despite what players had been hoping, it will always look like that, Blizzard…

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