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Palworld, one of the breakout hit games of 2024, is getting a major new update just in time for players to enjoy during the holidays, even as it deals with a legal battle. Pocketpair detailed some of the changes coming with this update, which it shared on the game’s Steam page. Some of the new additions include a new...
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Pocketpair, developer of smash hit Palworld, isn’t letting anything stop it from trying to expand the game’s reach, not even a lawsuit from Nintendo and The Pokémon Company. A few weeks ago, the game appeared at Sony’s State of Play event to reveal that it’s coming to the PlayStation 5 for territories outside of...
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Palworld, the first game to become a hit in 2024, now finds itself at the center of a legal battle. The game’s developer, Pocketpair, is being sued by Nintendo alongside The Pokémon Company. In a statement, Nintendo says that “this lawsuit seeks an injunction against infringement and compensation for damages on the...
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Before we get into today's news, we should set the stage: Pocketpair is a small Japanese game developer with a few minor successes under its belt. Most people, particularly outside of Japan, have probably never heard of any of Pocketpair's previous games, like Unity-engine survival-craft title Craftopia or the rather...
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Steam hit an all-time peak yesterday with a whopping 35 million online users, 11 million of whom were in games. Of course, this record was helped along by newcomers Palworld and Helldivers 2, as well as some familiar faces that are still topping Steam’s charts. However, we might see quite the jump in this record as...
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Both Helldivers 2 and Palworld have seen explosive growth and popularity since their respective releases, drawing in millions of gamers around the world. With this popularity, though, also comes opportunistic folks trying to make a quick buck by piggybacking off the hype. This is exactly what happened both titles...
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Massive runaway indie success story Palworld is a game where you play a castaway washed up on an archipelago inhabited primarily by strange, cartoonish creatures known as Pals. Pals have otherworldly abilities, and this makes them valuable to the player, who can ultimately set up an entire industrial production system...
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It's the question that the head of every AAA developer has to be (or should be) asking their staff right now: what is the deal with Palworld? This isn't an opening to a Jerry Seinfeld comedy skit, but rather a very serious question, because the game is kind of crappy and broken in a lot of ways, yet it's now the...
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If you have somehow missed this story as it has been evolving, Japanese indie hit Palworld has been tearing up the leaderboards on both Steam and Xbox platforms. As we reported on Thursday, it has over 19 million players between the two stores, and while it's available on Game Pass, the majority of the players are...
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Surprise hit Palworld’s momentum marches on, with the game having reached 19 million players while simultaneously becoming the most successful third-party launch of all time on Xbox’s Game Pass service. According to Pocketpair, the game’s developer, Steam users account for 12 million of its player base. Meanwhile, 7...
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It's not as crazy as it sounds, really. Think of it from the perspective of a kid: you can get Fortnite or Minecraft on every electronic device known to man, so why not new hit game Palworld that all your favorite streamers are playing? Search it up on your phone and bam, there it is in the app store.
The thing is...
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Palworld players can access a big-time quality of life improvement by installing the Pal Info mod currently available on Nexus Mods, a mod created by user InhumanityMods. Since Palworld is still in early access the game has several rough edges, one of them being that a player doesn’t have much of an idea of what they...
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The Pokémon Company’s legal team is now looking into whether the smash hit Palworld might be committing any intellectual property infringements. The company states that “we intend to investigate and take appropriate measures to address any acts that infringe on intellectual property rights related to the Pokémon.” Up...
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Yesterday, we briefly touched on Palworld’s immense popularity, which was also drawing in some of the darkest and most vile parts of the internet. Despite that continuing, the immense growth has also continued, subsequently taking over Counter-Strike 2 on the charts and setting records in doing so.
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If you’ve been online and paying attention to feeds over the past couple of days and weeks, you might have noticed the explosive popularity of Palworld. This Pokémon-esque MMO is the game that Pokémon players have been wanting, and it clearly shows with 5 million copies sold in three days since launch. However, this...
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It's easy to dismiss Palworld after many outlets—us included—unfairly described it as a knock-off of Pokémon, just with guns. In reality it's a lot more than that, as it includes a massive open world for co-op players to explore and build in, not unlike ARK: Survival Evolved. On top of that, there's considerable...
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Palworld is the newest shooting star in the world of PC games, and it just rocketed to 1 million concurrent users on Steam. The highly popular game has also sold an astounding 4 million copies in less than 3 days.
The multiplayer open world Palworld video game brings players into a fantastical universe where Pals...
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