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TournifyPK Summer Championship Announced: PKR 500,000 Prize Pool!
Prepare your squads for the biggest esports tournament of the summer. TournifyPK is proud to announce the Summer Championship with tournament tracks for PUBG Mobile, Valorant, and Tekken 8.
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Steam Week in Review: Great, haystack slop is a thing now
Clones have been a fixture in the games industry forever. For every Mario Bros there's a Giana Sisters, for every Stardew Valley there's a Fields of Mistria, and for every Needle In A Haystack Simulator there's a A Needle In a Haystack, or Needle in a Haystack, or Needle In A Haystack, or Needle In A Haystack - A Time...
'All roads lead back to Arma'
The ArmA family tree(Image credit: Future)This TikTok from Biffmatic (recently reshared by Bohemia Interactive) reminded me just how different PC gaming would look today if not for Arma, the long-running milsim series that's still going strong.Pretty much everyone knows that DayZ, one of the important PC games of the p...
Steam Week in Review: This indie publisher released 29 terrible-looking Steam games in a single day—will they make any money?
It's been a busy week for prodigious game publisher Hard Shark Games: on September 15 it released an astonishing 29 games on Steam across a huge variety of genres. Not only did Hard Shark Games publish that many games, but the company is also marked as developer for every one of them. All of which, mind you, are early...
Why do Japanese studios suffer fewer layoffs? Because they have smaller teams and don't pay their execs $30m, says one expert
It's been a pretty grim year for video games. Aside from the "return of Xbox" new CEO Asha Sharma promised awhen taking over, which enacted the announcement of 3,200 layoffs and four studio departures, we've also seen mass layoffs in other studios, too: Bungie, EA, PUBG Productions, Take-Two, Warner Bros., Epic, and ma...
August’s top grossing mobile games: Honor of Kings, Gossip Harbor, PUBG, Royal Match, Roblox, more
Here are last month’s top grossing mobile games based on in-app purchase earnings, according to Appmagic data. These IAP estimates do not include ad revenue, web shop spend, Apple and Google’s 30% cut or revenue from China’s Android ecosystem. There’s commentary on which way the biggest earners are trending, and...
PUBG's new spin-off game is 'faster, meaner, and more aggressive' with sword hands and 'a little bit of light cannibalism'
PUBG remains one of Steam's most-played games, which makes it all the more surprising that PUBG Studios and publisher Krafton haven't made more attempts to milk it over the years. PUBG: DED NET might be the biggest yank of the udder to date though, revealing an entirely new spin-off roguelite FPS set in the '90s. And i...
PUBG: Ded.Net Is “The ‘90s Put Through A Meat Grinder”
PUBG: Ded.Net was revealed at Gamescom Opening Night Live this year, a new shooter with roguelike elements that was introduced to us in spectacular fashion, kicking, screaming, and sliding like a snake down hills in a shower of bullets and explosions. After the reveal, I spoke with creative director Dave Curd about bri...
New game digest: PUBG Mobile Light, Aniimo, Petit Planet, Wobbly Life, Monster Hunter and more
Here every Friday you’ll find the latest global releases, game dates, new soft launches and everything in between. This column is sponsored by Kohort. Plug in your MMP and Ktrl will tell you what to scale by this afternoon. 20-minute setup, no engineering required. PUBG Mobile Light (Tencent/Krafton) Pre-registr...
Gamescom 2026 live hub: The latest news and previews from the biggest gaming event of the year
Gamescom coverage sponsored by(Image credit: Microsoft)This coverage brought to you by Fable, out February 23, 2027 for PC, Xbox Series X/S, and PlayStation 5.Gamescom 2026 is underway. In this E3-less world, Gamescom is the biggest gaming convention of the year, and we've got multiple reporters on the scene in Cologne...
AI is 'just a plagiarism machine that makes people lose their jobs' in the eyes of The Talos Principle 3's writers
How many times do some of the most creative and respected figures in this industry need to explain not only why AI is not the key to making a good game, but that it's actually detrimental to creativity? Or as Dispatch's creative director cleanly put: "maybe it's a creative solution if you aren't creative". We've seen L...
Battle royale goes grunge: there's a new PUBG game and it's set in the '90s
No one is safe from '90s nostalgia, not even battle royale. A new PUBG game was announced today at Gamescom, and it's gone grunge, according to publisher Krafton.Maybe more interestingly, PUBG: Ded.net is also a roguelite, with progression across runs. Take a peek at the announcement trailer below, set to Ministry's "J...
Nvidia tech behind PUBG's genAI team mates will let folks chat to creature-collecting RPG Aniimo's not-Pokemon next year
Alongside releasing Ray Reconstruction for DLSS 4.5, Nvidia have announced that their ACE tech best known for powering PUBG: Battlegrounds' generative AI team mates will be coming to another game early next year. Said game is Aniimo, a creature-catching open-world RPG from Chinese devs Pawprint Studio, which looks to b...