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With Dawntrail on the horizon, though still with no confirmed release date, Final Fantasy XIV players are waking up to the last patch of the 6.5x era. It’s the bookend on the Anabaseios raid tier, and likely the version of the game you’ll spend the most time with leading into FFXIV 7.0. FFXIV Patch 6.58 doesn’t have a lengthy list of notes, but what the patch lacks in size, it makes up for in importance. There’s noteworthy changes to the Duty Finder / Raid Finder, adjustments to best-in-slot gear rewards, a new…

A developer on recently released third-person shooter Helldivers 2 has spoken on the reasons the title will “never” receive a player vs player (PvP) mode. In a post on X (formerly Twitter) the CEO of developer Arrowhead and creative director of Helldivers 2 Johan Pilestedt replied to a fan requesting that the game adds player vs player elements in the future. “We’ll ‘never’ add a PvP mode. This is to reduce toxic elements from the community. We want an environment that’s supportive, fun and where we all are fighting on…

Pocketpair Inc. has shared a roadmap for Palworld’s Early Access development with PvP combat, raid bosses and new Pals all coming to the survival-collecting game. After selling more than 8million copies of Palworld in less than a week, Pocketpair has given fans a glimpse into the future of the title. Taking to social media, the studio confirmed “sales have far exceeded the development team’s expectations” and confirmed that Palworld was currently suffering from “many problems due to excessive access congestion”.…

With 6 million players and already proven popularity, Palworld players are expecting big things from Pocketpair. Our first glimpse of the Early Access roadmap for Palworld shows that the team is already working on even more content for the survival game. Prior to the ridiculously successful launch of Palworld, Pocketpair promised a “one year roadmap” shortly after launch. Although this is more of a vague guideline of what’s to come, it gives a lot of hope for the future of Palworld. At the top, Pocketpair confirms it’s…

Palworld, a new multiplayer monster-collecting survival game, has sold more than 7 million copies in just five days, and now the developers behind it are sharing a roadmap of what’s to come. Dubbed “Pokémon with guns” by many, Palworld is set to get player-vs-player (PvP) fights, raid bosses, a PvP arena mode, and Steam / Xbox crossplay support.Developer Pocket Pair revealed the planned future updates in a post on X (formerly Twitter) today with no time frame for when they will arrive. Palworld is also getting “various…

Palworld launched on January 19 in early access, and the developer's CEO estimates the game is about 60% feature-complete. Pocketpair CEO Takuro Mizobe told Automaton that "all the basic functions" are in place for Palworld. Looking ahead, Pocketpair will look to further refine the game and introduce new functionality, including potentially PvP."PvP is really difficult. First of all, we need to think about why we are introducing PvP to Palworld. To begin with, there are many other games that offer a fun…

It feels like Destiny 2 and Bungie are going through a never-ending torrent of struggles as of late, ranging in severity from downright catastrophic to mildly annoying. Somewhere closer to the annoying side of the scales falls the recent Checkmate PvP mode issues, which Bungie is now trying to alleviate. Notably, Bungie admitted in mid-December its relatively newfangled Checkmate multiplayer mode didn’t quite pan out. The community was so unhappy with it, in fact, that Bungie updated PvP to allow players to choose…

As Destiny 2‘s Season of the Wish rages on, it’s becoming increasingly more curious how agreeable Bungie is with its community following its recent troubles. The latest example of this being the case is the new Crucible PvP update, providing an alternative to the widely disliked Checkmate Control mode. Following the introduction of an in-game LFG system and the adoption of a beloved bug-turned-quality-of-life improvement, Bungie is now making it clear that it’s heard the PvP fans’ critique of Checkmate Control. To that…

Dead by Daylight continues its trend of adding well-known movie and video game horror villains to its increasing roster. Now, Child’s Play is the latest franchise to be incorporated, as developer Behaviour Interactive brings the killer doll Chucky to the game. A new trailer for the patch shows the pint-sized terror doing what he does best: stabbing people to death. Chucky comes with two modes, Normal and Hidey-Ho, the latter of which makes him temporarily undetectable. He’s also in a fixed third-person camera view due to…

I rise and study the land before me. The waves of the ocean behind are a soundtrack, a salty rhythm accompanying my own heavy breathing. Running was not on my agenda today. The wind sticks to the sweat on my forehead, cooling my face and tussling my hair like a breezy aunt. Looking down, I see the tatters of the clothes I’m wearing. I don’t know how I escaped death. I don’t know when my luck will run dry. All I know is the long road ahead, winding round the coast and disappearing behind a crest. Then, a surprise sight…