No Man’s Sky Dev Hello Games Hails ‘Very Positive’ Steam Rating 8 Years After ‘Overwhelmingly Negative’ LaunchCategoriesNews Gaming

No Man’s Sky Dev Hello Games Hails ‘Very Positive’ Steam Rating 8 Years After ‘Overwhelmingly Negative’ Launch

No Man’s Sky developer Hello Games has hailed hitting a ‘very positive’ Steam user review user rating for the first time, eight years after the game’s controversial launch was slammed by players. Space sim No Man’s Sky launched in August 2016 on PS4 and PC to tens of thousands of negative reviews on Steam, with […]

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Mortal Kombat 1 Dev NetherRealm Is Using Ghostface to Secretly Bring Back Two Obscure Characters — and Fans Have Already Worked Out Their True IdentitiesCategoriesNews Gaming

Mortal Kombat 1 Dev NetherRealm Is Using Ghostface to Secretly Bring Back Two Obscure Characters — and Fans Have Already Worked Out Their True Identities

Mortal Kombat 1 developer NetherRealm fully unveiled Ghostface overnight, showing off the DLC guest character’s signature hunting knife, crawling skills, and ability to phone in a fellow Ghostface partner to help finish off victims. But what the developers failed to reveal is which Mortal Kombat characters they’re quietly bringing back to the series via the […]

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Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Dev Says Game Pass Helped Convince People Who Were ‘On the Fence’ to Try the Game — but Now the Challenge Is to Convince Them to Stick AroundCategoriesNews Gaming

Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Dev Says Game Pass Helped Convince People Who Were ‘On the Fence’ to Try the Game — but Now the Challenge Is to Convince Them to Stick Around

Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 launched day one on Game Pass — the first Call of Duty game to do so following Microsoft’s $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard. It was a big gamble for Microsoft, with some analysts predicting a significant decline in game sales, particularly on Xbox, as a result. But in […]

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Palworld Dev Reveals Patents at the Heart of Nintendo and The Pokémon Company Lawsuit — and How Much Money It’s Being Sued ForCategoriesNews Gaming

Palworld Dev Reveals Patents at the Heart of Nintendo and The Pokémon Company Lawsuit — and How Much Money It’s Being Sued For

Palworld developer Pocketpair has provided an update on Nintendo and The Pokémon Company’s high-profile patent lawsuit against the company. According to Pocketpair, Nintendo and The Pokémon Company want 5 million yen (approx $32,846) each plus late payment damages, as well as an injunction against Palworld that would block its release. Pocketpair also confirmed the Japan-based […]

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Palworld PS5 Launches in Japan, Dev Vows to ‘Continue to Launch Exciting and Large-Scale Updates’CategoriesNews Gaming

Palworld PS5 Launches in Japan, Dev Vows to ‘Continue to Launch Exciting and Large-Scale Updates’

Palworld has launched on PS5 in Japan even as its developer battles a lawsuit with Nintendo and The Pokémon Company in the country. Palworld’s long-awaited PS5 release shadow-dropped on September 24 after an announcement during Sony’s State of Play broadcast, but while gamers in 68 countries worldwide were downloading the survival and crafting game dubbed […]

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Palworld Dev Mulls Going Free-to-Play Live Service or Sticking With Pay-to-Play as PS5 TGS Rumors SwirlCategoriesNews Gaming

Palworld Dev Mulls Going Free-to-Play Live Service or Sticking With Pay-to-Play as PS5 TGS Rumors Swirl

The developer of Palworld has revealed a conundrum it faces as it looks to the future: take the game free-to-play and live service, or stick with its current pay-to-play model. Palworld is the phenomenally successful multiplayer survival crafting game that’s been dubbed ‘Pokemon with guns’ for its inclusion of creatures called Pals. It launched on […]

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