Doing a victory lap, Dune: Awakening publisher reveals that 1 million players have already huffed 6 billion grams of spice

Dune: Awakening is doing a well-deserved victory lap at the moment. Following its launch on June 10, the survival MMO has already reached the impressive milestone of 1,000,000 players, according to the publisher. That makes Dune: Awakening Funcom’s fastest-selling game, even beating out its 2018 survival sandbox, Conan Exiles. The million player tally isn’t the…

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Valve announces Team Fortress 2 is getting ‘a much-needed update’ focused on Mann vs. Machine: ‘A chilling cautionary tale where an artificial consciousness tried to take all our jobs’

Valve has announced an upcoming Team Fortress 2 update as only Valve can. A new blog post begins: “Thirteen years ago, we launched Mann vs. Machine, a chilling cautionary tale where an artificial consciousness tried to take all our jobs. You didn’t know it back then, but that was actually a literary device called ‘speculative’…

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Peak developers react to selling 1M copies after suffering ‘a lot of burnout’ from making bigger games: ‘The realization that smaller projects like this can work has set our studio in a new direction’

There aren’t very many games industry successes that look like Peak, the comedic co-op climber developed as a collaboration between indie studios Aggro Crab and Landfall during a manic month-long game jam in a Korean Airbnb. Less than a week after launch, it’s already made over a million sales. For lead devs at both studios,…

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Drag X Drive Switch 2 eShop Price Revealed

And it’s cheaper than most. Earlier today, Nintendo dropped a surprise on everyone by revealing Drag x Drive‘s release date on the Nintendo Today! app. And now, a few hours later, pre-orders are open — and that means the price has been revealed, too. You can snap up the digital-only wheelchair basketball game for just…

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