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Palworld is already obscenely popular—knocking out 4 million sales in about three days. It’s also a far better experience on Steam, thanks to some certification process nonsense. The game’s developer Pocketpair has been wrangling with some thorny systems architecture that’s been impacting the game on both Xbox, Microsoft Store and—by extension—Game Pass. That’s according to…

At the time of writing, Palworld developer Pocketpair is almost drowning in success. The colorful survival game had attracted some attention during its development, mainly because “Pokemon with guns” is an elevator pitch you instantly want to see in action, but its actual launch has seen that translate into what looks like a genuinely organic…

Grabbing a few wheat seeds in Palworld is an important step in upgrading your food production capabilities. While red berry plantations serve you pretty well in terms of feeding your Pals, growing wheat will allow you to make fancier foods with side-effects, and most importantly, produce flour with which to make the cakes you need…

Coming seemingly out of nowhere, Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice delivered a PC gaming experience that nobody had experienced before. Slipping into the shoes of broken Celtic warrior Senua, gamers set off on a haunting vision quest into Viking Hell to fight for the soul of Senua’s dead lover. As well as being an audio-visual tour de…

You may be familiar with Baldur’s Gate 3 speedrun tricks like shadowboxing, which is where you kill Shadowheart and stuff her in a box as a way of skipping through a substantial part of the game. Which is honestly a bit of a rough way to treat God’s favorite princess and the most interesting girl…

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Sorceress is shaping up to be a precious kind of game: The Dark Messiah-like. Arkane’s sophomore outing is mostly remembered for its legendary kick ability, which could turn nearly any enemy into one of those supremely satisfying Source engine ragdolls with one or two good smacks, but it also had this beautifully anarchic approach to…

The official Dungeons & Dragons companion app and website D&D Beyond recently released some stats for the last year’s worth of characters created on the platform. The most popular name was ‘Bob’ just like it has been every year since at least 2019. Names with the most growth include Link, which enjoyed a 23% boost…

Best of the best (Image credit: Larian Studios) 2024 games: Upcoming releases Best PC games: All-time favorites Free PC games: Freebie fest Best FPS games: Finest gunplay Best MMOs: Massive worlds Best RPGs: Grand adventures On an average day about a dozen new games are released on Steam. And while we think that’s a good…

A compelling new detective text adventure set in Korea challenges you do fit together memories and elements of a mystery like they’re puzzle pieces as a rookie police officer brings a veteran out of retirement for the only case she left cold. The result is No Case Should Remain Unsolved, a compellingly animated, quite intriguing…