Author: Rich Stanton
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Palworld’s made so much money it’s ‘too big for a studio with our size to handle’, but CEO says it’s not going to go public or sell up yet: ‘I want to make multiple small games’
PocketPair CEO and Palworld creator Takuro Mizobe has given an interview to Bloomberg about the game’s breakout success. During the interview Mizobe puts this down to, among other things, its unusual mix of influences and it being a game that’s fun to watch as well as play with friends. But the scale of that success?…
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As the Warner Bros suits begin to blame Suicide Squad for everything but the weather, the newly released game’s price is almost slashed in half
Rocksteady’s Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League launched in early February and, while far from the disaster some were predicting after its lengthy development and multiple delays, so far hasn’t set the world alight. Much of the criticism focuses on the game’s live service element, but Morgan found the endgame was basically the best part:…
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Shellshocked Helldivers 2 players so stunned by indiscriminate friendly fire from Stratagems they’ve begun to question if the Automatons are behind it
Helldivers 2 loves a bit of friendly fire and, while this mechanic has been around in various games since the year dot, its re-emergence at the heart of the current big thing has really captured some imaginations. After all, we live in a world where it feels like half the games you play seem afraid…
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Helldivers 2’s latest major order gives players the chance to permanently rid a sector of bugs with a planet-sized pesticide system
Earlier today Helldivers 2 called in pest control and took care of a big bug problem. The quick version is that the game had been spawning in some of its most heavily armored Terminids right on top of players, everything from bile titans to chargers to annihilator tanks, which gave the Helldivers in question little…
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Astralis belatedly backs up its women’s Counter-Strike team’s request for default female skins, says it can’t understand the reaction to something ‘that does not hurt others in any way or form’
On 29 February the Astralis Counter-Strike womens’ team released an open letter to developer Valve, asking for the game to include female skins as a default option in the game. The letter was signed by all five roster members and spearheaded by team rifler Josefine Jensen, and made the basic point that “there should be…
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OpenAI fires back at Musk lawsuit with ‘facts’ showing he ‘told us we would fail, started a competitor, and then sued us when we started making meaningful progress’
This week saw the news that Elon Musk, everyone’s favourite tech billionaire, was suing OpenAI and two of his fellow co-founders for departing from the company’s original non-profit mission to benefit humanity. The suit unsurprisingly casts Musk as the last action hero, the man who sees the dangers of artificial general intelligence (AGI), out to…
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Tribes 3: Rivals hits early access next week promising ‘rebirth’ for the exquisite fusion of skiing fast with a flag and explosive frisbees
If you want to know what I think of Tribes, I reviewed the last entry in the series (2012’s free-to-play Tribes: Ascend) for Eurogamer and it’s one of the few games I’ve ever given a 10. God that game was good, though, sadly, it didn’t quite stick the landing with enough players to survive: Ascend…
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Elon Musk sues OpenAI for abandoning its principles and says taking Microsoft’s billions has ‘set the founding agreement aflame’
Elon Musk has launched a lawsuit against OpenAI and some of his fellow co-founders of the company, claiming that the firm has departed from its original principles in favour of “maximising profits” for Microsoft (first reported by the BBC). Open AI is best-known for ChatGPT and its biggest investor by far is Microsoft, which since…
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Helldivers 2’s guns have 46 secret stats so just ‘use the one you like the most’
Helldivers 2 definitely involves strategy, but the way I play it would not be described as strategic. My first few hours in Arrowhead’s hit shooter were chaos, not helped by the fact that I dived straight into Automaton turf and started blasting away at thick-armored robots with a pea-shooter. I got filleted by melee bots,…
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RuneScape gets not one but two tabletop adaptations on the same day
RuneScape studio Jagex and Steamforged Games today announced the release of not one but two adaptations of the venerable MMO, both under the branding of RuneScape Kingdoms. The board game, RuneScape Kingdoms: Shadow of Elvarg, was kickstarted back in 2022 and quickly sailed past its target, offering “co-operative campaigns heavily inspired by iconic quests from…