Author: [email protected] (Tyler Wilde)
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The 10 most popular Steam Next Fest demos include 2 RTS games and a 4X grand strategy
We used to complain that we were in a game demo drought, and now we complain that we’re drowning in them. It’s a good problem to have, but there genuinely isn’t enough time to play all of the demos available during any given Steam Next Fest—the current one ends on Monday—so some prioritization is in…
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Ark: Survival Ascended devs made a ‘Super Steamboat Willie’ platformer in the survival game to demonstrate new mod tools
If I’d been asked this morning to guess what’s been going on in Ark: Survival Ascended, the survival game with dinosaurs, and my options were “they added some new dinosaurs” or “they made a Mickey Mouse sidescroller in it,” I definitely would’ve been wrong. This week, Studio Wildcard updated the Ark Development Kit mod tools…
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So far, the Skull and Bones beta has just made me want to play Sea of Thieves again
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Skull and Bones is finally coming out this month (or so we’re told), and this week’s open beta is Ubisoft’s last best chance to convince us that the long-delayed pirate game is worth $60. I played a few hours of it today, and I can’t say I’m convinced, though I won’t rule out that it…
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After Palworld and Enshrouded, will Nightingale be the third survival game hit of 2024?
The year’s only just started, and the tree-punching genre is dominating. Palworld’s astonishing 19 million players makes Enshrouded’s million look modest, but both can be called 2024 early access survival crafting hits. Can the genre go three-for-three? Nightingale, out in early access on February 22, is yet another survival game on lots of people’s Steam…
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Palworld server costs near $500K per month as network engineer is ordered to ‘never let the service go down no matter what’
Monster-collecting survival game Palworld has amassed an astonishing 19 million players, and that extraordinary success isn’t coming cheap for its indie developer: Palworld’s projected February server costs are over 70 million yen, according to a post from Pocketpair CEO Takuro Mizobe. That comes to over $475,000 USD. “Wait, maybe we’ll go bankrupt from server fees?”…
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The PC game releases we’re most excited about in February
PC gamers have already made two early access survival games into hits this year: Palworld and Enshrouded. Will we do it a third time when Nightingale releases in late February? I think it’s possible—our hunger for games in which you craft stuff and try not to die is bottomless. There’s lots to look forward to…
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Pokimane’s main reason for leaving Twitch: ‘So much manosphere, red pill bulls***’
Imane “Pokimane” Anys was one of the most popular streamers on Twitch until this week, when she announced that she’s leaving the Amazon-owned platform and her 9.3 million followers. Today, she revealed why. In a new episode of her podcast on Spotify, the streamer said that she’d probably still be streaming on Twitch if it…
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Pokimane is done streaming on Twitch
Popular streamer Imane “Pokimane” Anys says she’s done streaming on Twitch, where she has 9.3 million followers, calling it “the end of an era.” “Twitch has been my home for a decade,” wrote Pokimane in an X post on January 30, “but it’s time to say thank you for all the memories and love during…
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Destiny 2 game director Joe Blackburn is leaving Bungie for ‘a new adventure’
Destiny 2 game director Joe Blackburn, who’s led development of the sci-fi shooter since 2020, is leaving Bungie. In a series of X posts, Blackburn announced on January 30 that he’ll embark on “a new adventure outside the walls of Bungie” next month at the start of a major testing phase for upcoming Destiny 2…
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Blizzard’s canceled survival game had been in development for over 6 years, was highly praised by employees
Blizzard’s unnamed survival game had already been in development for over four years when it was announced in early 2022. Its team doubled in size that year with plans to grow even more in 2023. Now, after over six years of total development time and positive responses to the project from current and former Blizzard…