ⓘ SteamDBA screengrab of Palworld 1.0 peak player count ingamePalworld’s 1.0 launch drew nearly one million concurrent Steam players and sold an estimated 1.8 million copies in its first 10 days. Lifetime sales have now surpassed 30 million, generating nearly…
It starts on 4chan, in a May 2019 thread entitled “unsettling images”. The first post was a photo showing an empty room with the now iconic yellow wallpaper, no natural lighting and a kind of inexplicable jutting half-wall. Shortly afterwards,…
Rockstar Games co-founder Dan Houser believes that, if players want their games released on physical media, then “companies should provide it.”The former Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Redemption developer opened up about the state of physical media in the…
Valve’s steep Steam Deck price increase may be taking a much heavier toll than initially expected. While the company raised prices to counter soaring component costs driven by the ongoing AI-fueled chip shortage, new estimates suggest the strategy has dramatically…
The Sunday Papers is our weekly roundup of great writing about (mostly) videogames from across the web. Sundays are for sobbingly lifting exactly one boulder from the groaning dreampile that is my backlog. Good news, Vacuity, cpt_freakout and the rest…
MELBOURNE – The inaugural Enhanced Games, held in Las Vegas in May, allowed participating athletes to use performance-enhancing drugs. The Games’ founder, Aron D’Souza, claimed before the start: “We’re going to obliterate the world records… it will be a watershed…
It’s nearly that dreaded time of the year known as Broketober, the month of October where it’s absolutely stacked with video game releases as we lead up to the Christmas season.However, things are a little different this year, largely due…
Xbox 360 classics that were exclusive to that platform could be officially coming to PC in the near future, according to a new datamine.Tech experts who have datamined Xbox’s new backwards compatibilty update have determined that it’s not just original…
As soulslike games continue to boom in popularity, developers have to find new ways to keep the genre alive without simply retreading new ground. That’s why we’ve seen an increase in some weird and wacky soulslike games, as well as…
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (WBKO) – A three-RBI performance from Tony Santa Maria and a leadoff home run by Nathan Flewelling weren’t enough as the Bowling Green Hot Rods saw their nine-game winning streak come to an end with a 14-6…
Bandai Namco has announced the biggest expansion yet for Dragon Ball Sparking Zero. Unlike previous DLC packs, which focused on adding small batches of characters, the new Super Limit‑Breaking NEO DLC is a full‑scale expansion, introducing new stages, a new…
Before action RPGs relied on seasonal ladders and DLC treadmills there was Darkstone, a 1999 hack and slash where you clicked on things until they died and liked it. It had some interesting ideas, like the companion mode that lets…