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Every fresh look we get at Palworld makes it appear more fun and yet more disturbing than it did before. Palworld is a cartoony open world creature-collecting and battling game that is heavily inspired by Pokémon, but it’s also filled with machine guns and rocket launchers. 

And you’re not the only one spitting lead: guns aren’t just used by you against the monsters you’re trying to defeat and capture, but by the cute and fluffy creatures themselves. Yes, sheep can operate machine guns and a creature that looks suspiciously like Pikachu on steroids does wield a massive minigun.

We’ve already heard a lot of the unseemly things you can do with your Pals besides pit them in battle against each other. For instance, you can slaughter them and use them for meat.…

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Microsoft has made a new offer, one that president Brad Smith describes as a “substantially different transaction”, in its effort to get its proposed $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard over the finish line with the United Kingdom’s Competition and Markets Authority. The CMA had previously blocked the deal on grounds that included concerns about the nascent cloud gaming market, and the restructured deal will see all cloud rights to Activision Blizzard games signed over to Ubisoft for the next 15 years.

The CMA says it will review the new offer, but cautioned “this is not a green light.” It is to deliver a decision by October 18. This comes after the EU Commission has approved the deal, joining many other global regulatory bodies, and following the US Federal Trade Commi…

My love of games where you play inventory Tetris is well-known. I do not make a secret of this. I like to snugly fit a health potion in beside my spare dagger and weird stuff I’ve picked up off the latest shopkeep or slain demon. I have also played perhaps too much Dota, and therefore I like it when two or more items become one, stronger item.

Backpack Battles delivers unto me just that. Plus, it’s a twist on the PvP autobattler genre that lets you play asynchronous multiplayer against others as you build and inventory manage your way to victory. Each round you get money to purchase from the shop with before you go into combat against an opponent at the same level as you. Win or lose, you move forward, combine some items into new ones, gain HP, and make new purchases.

The mu…

SteamWorld Heist 2, sequel to Image and Form’s 2016 sci-fi strategy game about bouncing bullets into rickety robots, is coming to PC on August 8th.

The surprise follow-up announced during the recent Nintendo Direct, and switches out the original’s motley crew of space pirates for regular, water-based pirates. Assuming the role of the roguish Captain Leeway, you’ll assemble your own crew of bionic buccaneers as you explore a Caribbean-like ocean called the Great Sea.

The setting also forms what appears to be the game’s main new feature, an open-ended overworld (or oversea) that you can sail freely around in a mechanical craft, searching for loot and getting into scrapes with other vessels in real-time naval combat. This looks fairly simplistic compared to the game’s turn-base…

Bytten Studio and Raw Fury have dropped a new video showcasing 16 minutes of Cassette Beasts, an open-world “monster collecting RPG” that’s slated to come out later this month.

Cassette Beasts was inspired by monster-focused RPGs the developers played when they were kids, the most obvious of which is probably Pokemon. But rather than capturing and “training” monsters to fight on their behalf (which quite frankly I’ve always thought was a little weird), players in Cassette Beasts transform into monsters themselves by using recordings of the island’s creatures, made with old-fashioned tape recorders. Battles are turn-based and use action points to determine what abilities can be brought to bear, while a “chemistry system” can inflict status effects of different sorts, like using wat…

Magical turn-based strategy Age of Wonders 4 has become the fastest selling game in the series, according to aptly-named developer Triumph Studios.

The announcement was made via the Age of Wonders 4 twitter account, in a post that also provided some impressive stats. In “less than a week” AoW 4 has sold a whopping 250,000 copies. Meanwhile, on Steam, the game has experienced a peak concurrent player count of 42,826. That’s a lot of players conquering arcane realms as cannibal mole-people.

To put the numbers into some historical context, it took Age of Wonders 3 almost two years to sell half a million copies, a milestone that the game reached “quietly”, according to remarks made by Triumph’s Game Director Lennart Sas back in March 2016. “It looks like we might have to cancel …

We saw a story trailer for Jumplight Odyssey when it was announced last year, highlighting its sweet 1970s anime vibe inspired by Star Blazers/Space Battleship Yamato. Now, developer League of Geeks is giving us a closer look at the space-based roguelite’s gameplay.

This pre-alpha footage shows several areas of the SDF Catalina being managed cutaway-style, from the Captain sitting on the important big chair on the bridge, to a greenhouse where food is farmed, a med bay for the injured, a hangar deck where starfighters are crewed and deployed, a kitchen where food is served, and a lounge where the crew relax by playing chess and reading books.

There are also pigs on board. I guess the Pigs in Space skits from The Muppet Show were accurate? Sometimes the hogs are just hanging …

Jeremy Wang, better known to the internet as streamer and esports team owner Disguised Toast, has shared some incisive thoughts on why “the esports industry is one of the worst things you can get into.” And it’s not because his team sucks, although it does: It’s because in spite of all the millions of dollars that have been poured into it, there’s no money to be made.

Disguised Toast announced in January that he’d spent $500,000 to found a Valorant pro team called DSG. It did not go well: By May, the team was on an 0-7 run and Disguised Toast was having serious second thoughts. Despite that experience, he purchased a League of Legends pro team in May, intending to compete in the North American Challengers League. But that venture also got off to an inauspicious start, as Riot unex…