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Palworld, the survival game often referred to as “Pokémon with guns”—sometimes affectionately, sometimes derisively—drew mixed reactions from critics when it first launched in January 2024. We called it a “somewhat edgy, competent survival game with a core concept just dumb enough to be streamable” when it was released, while other players noted its similarities to…

Nintendo’s announcement that it was suing Pocketpair, the developer of the massively successful Palworld, came as a shock last year, not the least to Pocketpair itself. The lawsuit stunned the games industry, and internally, it sent Pocketpair scrambling for answers. Looking back on the studio’s reaction to the lawsuit during a talk at GDC 2025…

A Counter-Strike 1.6 remake by some of the most experienced modders in the game’s history has been announced and is coming to Steam. The game is called Counter-Strike: Legacy, will apparently launch in early access this year, and is built using Valve’s 2013 Source software development kit “on top of our own major rewrites to…

I wasn’t entirely sure what to expect with Atelier Yumia: The Alchemist of Memories & the Envisioned Land. It was my first venture into Gust’s Atelier series, which I had largely known as RPGs about crafting and chill vibes. As it turns out, Yumia is a fresh take on the Atelier series, and so it…

It’s been 14 years since Portal 2, and, well, the wait for a new game in the series isn’t exactly over. But if you’re a die-hard fan, if you have a lot of money lying around and nothing else to do with it, and if you like pinball, you can go for Portal on the…

Like the dystopian show Squid Games that inspired it, Beast Games is getting a second season, despite a wave of controversy over the first season of MrBeast’s Prime Video reality competition. This week a casting call appeared on the Beast Games website announcing that contestant submissions are now open for season two, which will be…

Rise of the Ronin was already having a rough start on PC after its Steam release last week, but the situation just got even worse as reports have begun rolling in from players about their save data getting erased. Koei Tecmo posted a response to the issue on Monday, stating, “We are currently looking into…