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HomeNewsPalworld Palworld updates coming for broken multiplayer, inaccessible servers and save data bugsPocketpair working to fix “serious” technical glitches and errors Pocketpair working to fix “serious” technical glitches and errors Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Pocketpair Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Pocketpair When I innocently went on holiday on Thursday evening,Palworldwas that flagrant cash-insurvivalgame where you can make Pokemon - sorry,Pals- shoot guns and work on an assembly line. As of this morning, it’s among the most-played games in the world, one of just six to exceed one million concurrent players on Steam....

HomeNewsPalworld Palworld’s over zealous police are even worse than the cops in GTA right nowYou’ll live to regret harming any of its NPCs You’ll live to regret harming any of its NPCs Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Pocketpair Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Pocketpair I’m still working my way through thegrim realitiesof Steam mega-hitPalworld, but as developers Pocketpair begin working through their50,000-strong pile of bug reports, I’d hazard to add one more to the pile: please, something must be done about this game’s ruthless police force, who are so dogged in their pursuit of evildoers that they literally will not stop chasing you until you’ve been shot dead....

HomeFeaturesSlay The Princess Piracy, preservation, and the devs who don’t mind if you have to pirate their gameThe founder of the Video Game History Foundation and the devs of Slay The Princess on the place piracy has today The founder of the Video Game History Foundation and the devs of Slay The Princess on the place piracy has today “Most of videogame history is alive and well due to the ability to pirate old video games,” Frank Cifaldi, founder of theVideo Game History Foundation, tells me over a call....

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HomeFeatures Screenshot Saturday Mondays: Cutting through the crypto spamI go on Twitter so you don’t have to I go on Twitter so you don’t have to Image credit:Daniel Villagran Image credit:Daniel Villagran Chasing you with goo sounds a wonderful alternative for this apparent design problem in Cruel (coming to Steam): The level timer was boring so I swapped it out for toxic goo that hunts you down if you are too slow#screenshotsaturday#GodotEnginepic....

HomeHardwareNews Steam Deck beta client update explains what its performance settings actually doJust to clarify Just to clarify Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun The latestSteam Deckbeta client updateis out, and it’s made a pretty neat addition to the quick-access performance menu. A tap of the Y button now brings up a brief explainer for whichever individual setting is currently highlighted, a handy lil’ reference for anyone who wants to customise how their Deck (orSteam Deck OLED) runs without knowing exactly how things like TDP limits and half-rate shading affect performance....

HomeNewsPalworld Surprise, surprise, someone’s already modded actual Pokémon into PalworldThe Pokémon-like Steam hit becomes, well, just Pokémon The Pokémon-like Steam hit becomes, well, just Pokémon Image credit:ToastedShoes/Pocketpair Image credit:ToastedShoes/Pocketpair Temtem Is A Pokemon MMO On PC | Temtem Gameplay And ImpressionsWatch on YouTube Temtem Is A Pokemon MMO On PC | Temtem Gameplay And Impressions Palworld already has a Pokemon modFull video on my YouTube tomorrow!pic.twitter.com/X1ohT6mJiT— Toasted (@ToastedShoes)January 22, 2024...

HomeNewsSuicide Squad: Kill the Justice League The Joker - but not THAT Joker - will be Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League’s first free DLC characterAn Elseworlds version of the Batman baddie kicks off Rocksteady’s first character-centric season of post-launch extras An Elseworlds version of the Batman baddie kicks off Rocksteady’s first character-centric season of post-launch extras Image credit:Rocksteady Image credit:Rocksteady Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, Rocksteady’s multiplayer Destiny-like with DC villains, will fill the conspicuously Joker-shaped hole in its rogues’ gallery of Batman baddies in March with the launch of the live service game’s first season of free post-launch content....

HomeNews The Maw 22nd-27th January 2024Our weekly news liveblog, with this week’s top videogame releases Our weekly news liveblog, with this week’s top videogame releases Image credit:Athanasius Kircher/Wikipedia Image credit:Athanasius Kircher/Wikipedia As W.H. Auden once wrote: “our apparatniks will continue making the usual squalid mess called History: all we can pray for is that Videogame News Writers may still appear to blithe it.” Welcome one and all to another week of addled product journalism care of your ever-salivating host, the Maw, ravenous hype god and certainly not a silly metaphor I’ve come up with to make my job sound grander than it should be....

HomeDeals Upgrade your keyboard’s looks with these $12 pudding caps from HyperXGetting awesome-looking keycaps for 50% off is a huge win in my book. Getting awesome-looking keycaps for 50% off is a huge win in my book. Listen up: this is one of the simplest and most effective upgrades you can give your mechanical keyboard, and right now it’s 50% off, just $12.I’m talking about a full set of 104 double-shot PBT pudding keycaps from HyperX, which combine the excellent legibility of a black backlit keycap tops with frosted semi-transparent sides....

HomeNews VR studio Wimo Games, Battle Bows and Micro Machines: Mini Challenge Mayhem devs, have closed their doorsAround three dozen staff affected. Around three dozen staff affected. Image credit:Wimo Games Image credit:Wimo Games To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Manage cookie settings To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Manage cookie settings Wimo emerged only a few years ago in 2021, going on to specialise largely invirtual reality titleswith co-op archery wave-defence game Battle Bows and track-build-and-racer Micro Machines: Mini Challenge Mayhem....

HomeGuidesWordle Wordle hints and answer (#947): How to solve the Monday January 22 WordleStuck on today’s Wordle word for January 22? Read our hint or find the answer below! Stuck on today’s Wordle word for January 22? Read our hint or find the answer below! Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out theWordle hint and answer for Wednesday 8th January!...

HomeGuidesNYT Connections NYT Connections hint and answers (Sunday, January 21)Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #224 Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #224 Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/NYT Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/NYT This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out theConnections hint for Wednesday 8th January! Want a hint for Connections today?Piggybacking off the monumental success of daily puzzle gameWordle, the New York Times has another fantastically popular word game out now....