Palworld and No Man’s Sky are intensifying their months-long flirtation, and if those two don’t just kiss already, I’m going to lose my mind

Last week, Pocketpair head of publishing and communications John “Bucky” Buckley addressed a bubbling conversation about the developer’s Palworld collaboration strategy, informing players that they “simply do not realize the sheer number of collabs we’ve rejected or scrapped” over a perceived mismatch. That exchange with the Palworld fanbase seems to have gotten the attention of…

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‘I would love that but we’re cheap and poor’: Jeff Kaplan speeds through everything players should know about his upcoming cowboy survival game, The Legend of California

In case you were wondering what Kintsugiyama’s upcoming open world survival multiplayer game was all about, Jeff Kaplan has sat down and gone through 213 rapid-fire questions via an interview with MinnMax and boy, do I know a lot about cowboys in California now. For those who don’t know The Legend of California is Kaplan’s…

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AMD Ryzen 7 7700X3D review

I’m trying not to be too down on the new(ish) AMD Ryzen 7 7700X3D. After all, we are living in a time when the regular narrative is that all hardware is brutally overpriced and every tech company out there is trying to make a quick buck off the back of an AI bubble that is…

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Former Arkane vets’ new studio isn’t going to try ‘trend chasing’, and in hindsight, thank God

One tragedy about the fall of Arkane Austin—aside from Microsoft’s seeming unwillingness to give studios a chance beyond the next quarter—is the pervasive feeling that the studio, whose devs were previously known for their immersive sims, was forced to make something way outside of their wheelhouse. Redfall was a live service shooter, and a pretty…

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