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Palworld is getting new pals this summer, and there are plans for “many more” Frogmarched Image credit:Pocketpair Palworld has teased four new beasts of burden for players to corral into their open world survival crafting sweatshops. The new pals are still unnamed but they appear to be the following: karate frog, confused peacock, dopey fungus, levitating sleeve creep. Within the confines of the arms manufacturing Pokélike, such creatures make sense. You can see them struggling to eke out an existence as a close personal friend of the player in the trailer below....

Palworld will emerge from early access in 2026, with a “truly massive” amount of stuff planned for 1.0 update Pocketpair will be focusing on quirk and jank cleanup for the rest of this year Image credit:Pocketpair Palworld is set to finally emerge from early access in 2026, developers Pocketpair have announced. There’s a lot of work the game about not-Pokémon, guns, and maunfacturing will need prior to that point, say the studio who’ve been busy staring down Lionel Hutzes who probably know the DK rap off by heart....

Path Of Exile 2 patch makes looting significantly more rewarding, with further updates planned for dodge rolls Grinding Gear outline the first major post-launch changes Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Grinding Gear Games Goblin-hitting bonanza Path Of Exile 2 launched into early access last weekend and the devs Grinding Gear Games have dropped some big patch notes that outline some things they’ve updated already, or things they plan on updating in a future patch....

Rally Point: Tempest Rising is clearly Command & Conquer, but more importantly, it isn’t No va Kane Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/3D Realms/Knights Peak The Rally Point is a regular column where the inimitable Sin Vega delves deep into strategy gaming. I wasn’t sure if I wanted Command & Conquer to come back. Some things are just gone, a product of their time, your fondness for them tied to some ephemeral capacity or limitation long since stretched out or hammered in by time and, in the case of games, a wealth of fresher and more convenient alternatives....

Rockbeasts is about managing an animal band in a BoJack-style world, but it’ll need to do more than horse around Welcome to the jungle Image credit:Lichthund BoJack Horseman was a show about Horsin’ Around. There was a good thing that had once been and a horse man who was now years removed from it, but still clung on to the idea that the magic was still there. I’ll not stray into spoiler territory, but that clinging generally didn’t go too well for old BoJack....

RuneScape returns as an open world survival RPG in which you hunt a Dragon Queen Jagex reveal new spin-off Dragonwilds Image credit:Jagex Ltd Jagex have announced RuneScape: Dragonwilds, a new open world co-operative survival game set in the same fantasy realm as their ancient MMO. It runs on Unreal Engine 5, looks a bit like Valheim and Enshrouded , and will launch into early access this spring. Dragonwilds takes place on the continent of Ashenfall, a wilderness abundant in winged lizards, and your overall goal is to “slay the Dragon Queen”....

Image credit:Eteo Eteo will be focused on “making vibrant game worlds with a distinctly mischievous flavour”, and have funding in place from Outersloth, the indie game fund run by Among Us developers Innersloth, for that unnamed first game. “We started [Sable studio] Shedworks about a week after I graduated from studying architecture,” Kythreotis recalls in the studio announcement video above. “We’ve just basically been teaching ourselves on the job for a decade now....

Same-date PC ports of PS5 games remain unlikely, as Sony talk up “thoughtful” multiplatform approach despite Xbox comparisons Big Sony are doing some big thinks Image credit:Sucker Punch PlayStation’s bigwigs are content to stick with their current approach to multiplatform releases for now, making it unlikely we’re going to see a sudden switch to day-and-date PC ports of Sony’s big single-player games anytime soon. SlayPtation have been bringing their studios’ multiplayer and live-service games to PC at release for a while now, it making sense with the likes of Helldivers 2 and, er, Concord , to try and ensure the maximum potential player base possible right out of the gate....

Screenshot Saturday Mondays: Space, mechs, and photographing draculas I go on Twitter so you don’t have to Image credit:Nothke Every weekend, indie devs show off current work on Twitter’s #screenshotsaturday tag. And every Monday, I bring you a selection of these snaps and clips. This week, my eye has been caught by games with mechs, games set in space, games with aerial action, a game where you take photographs of draculas, and many more....

Should you bother with… ultrawide gaming monitors? Ooh, big stretch Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun I realised recently that a juicy subject for another Should You Bother With has been staring me in the face – or rather, I’ve been staring at it. Ultrawide gaming monitors have clearly avoided non-starter status, given they’ve been around for years, seemingly being exchanged for currency – and yet they’re nowhere near what you might consider the ‘default’ option when making a display upgrade....

Silksong has murdered Steam GOG also having trouble <img loading=“lazy” src=“https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/image_hQ1DAah.png?width=690&quality=85&format=jpg&dpr=3&auto=webp" onerror=“this.onerror=null;this.src=‘https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhe7F7TRXHtjiKvHb5vS7DmnxvpHiDyoYyYvm1nHB3Qp2_w3BnM6A2eq4v7FYxCC9bfZt3a9vIMtAYEKUiaDQbHMg-ViyGmRIj39MLp0bGFfgfYw1Dc9q_H-T0wiTm3l0Uq42dETrN9eC8aGJ9_IORZsxST1AcLR7np1koOfcc7tnHa4S8Mwz_xD9d0=s16000';" alt=“A Steam error message reading “something went wrong” with a grumpy green critter. - 1”> Image credit:Valve / Rock Paper Shotgun Well, who could have seen this coming: Hollow Knight: Silksong has taken Steam offline, or at least, laid waste to large swathes of it. Within seconds of its release this afternoon , Team Cherry’s Hollow Knight sequel brought Valve’s servers to a halt, cue endlessly loading pages when trying to access the checkout, browse the store or do much of anything....

Someone else’s idea of being a teenager ’em up Mixtape gets a new trailer Chunky buttons Image credit:Beethoven & Dinosaur The Artful Escape developers Beethoven & Dinosaur announced Mixtape last year, a nostalgic (providing you’re nostalgic for very specific, suburban American teenager things) skating adventure set to “soundtrack of a generation” (providing you were a suburban American teenager during that specific generation). Here’s a new trailer for it. Mixtape stars three friends experiencing “dreamlike reenactments of their formative memories” while listening to music....

Sons of the Forest system requirements, PC performance and the best settings to use Refreshed for Sons of the Forest 1.0 Update: Sons Of The Forest 1.0 is out, marking the end of early access. I’ve been doing some re-testing and as hoped, 1.0 runs significantly better than the version I originally benchmarked for this analysis. Sometimes over 20% faster, depending on hardware and settings. Huzzah and, indeed, yippee. From what I can tell, its individual settings still have a broadly proportional performance impact to the early access build, so I’ve left most of the guide below as is....

Sony are confident Marathon will release by March 2026 and that their live service transition is paying off They hope to announce a date this autumn Image credit:Bungie / Sony Sony remain confident that Bungie’s live service shooter reboot Marathon will launch within their current fiscal year - that is, before March 31st 2026 - and are fairly sure they’ll be able to share an exact release date this autumn. They’ve factored it into their financial forecasts, see....

Sorry MindsEye, even with your first actual gameplay trailer I still don’t believe you’re a real game I’ve convinced myself the whole thing is an elaborate prank Image credit:Build A Rocket Boy MindsEye isn’t a real game, right? I mean, I’m sure it is a real game, it’s meant to be coming out June 10th , that’s only two weeks away now, and GTA 3 to 5 producer Leslie Benzies is helming it....

Space-Western Wild Bastards has OK shooty, decent looty, but darn fine rooty and tooty Information on booty forthcoming Image credit:Blue Manchu Roguelike FPS Wild Bastards is the space western follow up to 2019’s Void Bastards . It takes some of that game’s ideas, mainly those related to shooty and looty, and reforms them into a largely different can o’ campfire beans. This time, it’s less focused on exploration, more on individual, tense shoot-outs....

Star Wars Outlaws tips and tricks for beginners Here are the fundamentals to know before playing Star Wars Outlaws Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Ubisoft Looking for a list of Star Wars Outlaws tips and tricks? If it’s your first time journeying with Nix and Kay Vess in Star Wars Outlaws , we have a list of top tips to help you get started. This covers a range of early mechanics like the Wanted system and the best ways to reach an ’excellent’ reputation with all four syndicates in the game (which in turn, means you can secure all syndicate rewards)....

Steam’s latest beta lets you easily check if you have Secure Boot enabled before firing up Battlefield 6 or Call of Duty Another handy way to make sure your PC’s shoes are tightened Image credit:EA / Valve / Rock Paper Shotgun Steam’s latest client beta has given you another way to quickly check whether you’ve got secure boot enabled before you hop into some FPS sing about. Enabling the setting’s become mandatory for the likes of Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 and Battlefield 6 , as the possibly futile war on cheating continues to rage like, er, well, you know....

Stellar Reach is a thoughtful “real-scale” space 4X strategy game from a former Creative Assembly developer Out now Image credit:Stelleas Once upon a time, Stellar Reach developer James Miller wanted the stars to move about over the course of 4X strategy game campaigns that might stretch for hundreds of years. In reality, stars are in continual motion: our Sun, for example, orbits the centre of the Milky Way galaxy, which means that right now, you and I are technically travelling at hundreds of thousands of miles an hour in the rough direction of Vega, 25 lightyears away....

Stylish roguelite Into The Restless Ruins channels classic Warhammer Quest’s dungeon crawling Harvest maiden plz my pizza is terrible Image credit:Ant Workshop Ltd My lunch yesterday consisted of air fried lumps of failed pizza dough from a disastrous first batch. One of my new year’s resolutions was to learn how to make flawless pizza. This might be against the spirit of asceticism these goals usually incorporate, but such puritan edicts have no place here....