Immortality developer Sam Barlow teases 2 new projects on Steam, and one of them is survival horror

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…

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Palworld beats Counter-Strike 2, Dota 2 and Cyberpunk 2077 with an all-time peak player count of more than 1.8 million

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…

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Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League reveals its first season, featuring a playable Joker from another universe—a camp, insecure 20-something with a rocket umbrella

Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League has dropped a third entry into its sequence of insider episodes with a big reveal—in the game’s first season, you’ll get to play as da Joker, baby.  As posted to the Warner Bros. Games YouTube Channel, the diary goes into a few notable bits of information—like three seasons that’ll…

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Former Pokémon legal chief says Palworld ‘looks like the usual ripoff nonsense I would see a thousand times a year ‘ and he’s ‘surprised it got this far’

Palworld is Pokémon with guns. So much so, in fact, that in its four days on the market it’s already been accused of straight-up ripping off the Nintendo franchise by various internet detectives, a claim the developer called “slanderous.” But it’s not just internet commenters who have taken notice of Palworld and its gajillions of…

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Obsidian’s next big RPG Avowed is looking to Vermintide’s ‘masterclass in having a sense of hitting and impact’ to make its first-person sword-swinging feel weighty

Obsidian (the studio behind Pillars of Eternity, Fallout: New Vegas, and The Outer Worlds) released an extended gameplay trailer diving into its first-person RPG Avowed last week. PC Gamer’s own Ted Litchfield sat down with both the game’s director Carrie Patel and the gameplay director Gabe Paramo to talk shop. First-person melee combat is hard…

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Obsidian’s Avowed is going ‘classless’, ditching Pillars of Eternity’s crunchy stat-heavy builds in favour of Skyrim-like ability trees

I was downright gleeful when I learnt that Avowed—Obsidian’s upcoming first-person fantasy RPG—was set in the Pillars of Eternity world of Eora. If there’s one thing I’m perpetually a bit mad about, it’s that the Pillars games didn’t do much, much better than they did (If there’s a second, it’s that Tyranny somehow managed to…

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Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth review

Need to know What is it? The second turn-based JRPG in the Like A Dragon/Yakuza series Expect to pay £59.99/$69.99 Developer Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio Publisher Sega Reviewed on Windows 11, Nvidia 4090, Intel i9-13900k, 64gb DDR5 RAM Steam Deck Playable Link Official site  Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth feels indulgent in a way few…

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