Palworld studio changes its mind about releasing its co-op Hollow Knight-like in early access, will go straight to 1.0

Two years ago, Palworld answered the question, “What if Pokémon had base building and multiplayer?” Never Grave: The Witch and the Curse, Pocketpair’s next game, developed by a new internal team, is giving the same treatment to Hollow Knight. Announced in 2023, Never Grave was first planned to release in early access later that year….

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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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Biwin Black Opal X570 Pro 2 TB review

If there’s one thing that never bodes well for our little PC gaming community, it’s a monopoly. That might sound a little odd given our humble hobby, but hear me out. We’ve seen it happen time and time again. One company dominates the market in a certain field for one, two, three years, and all…

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