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As its much newer sequel struggles, the 13-year-old Payday 2 is getting a 'massive engine upgrade' that improves performance and cuts the install size in half
Back in 2025, Starbreeze turned its venerable heist-shooter Payday 2 over to a new studio, Sidetrack Games, so it could focus exclusively on trying to salvage the still-struggling Payday 3. Today we got our first look at the fruits of those efforts, and it's big news—not for Payday 3, to be clear, but for Payday 2, whi...
PUBG's new AI teammate is somehow more useless than my friends
PUBG's new Ally Duo game mode is a creepy letdown. The battle royale game has a limited-time experience right now that pairs you up with an LLM-powered teammate, Ella, who, on paper, behaves (and chats) like a regular human. It calls out enemy players, shoots at said players, and tells me every five minutes that it's j...
Brendan "PlayerUnknown" Greene "moves forward with a smaller team", as Prologue: Go Wayback! studio struggles to find funding
Brendan "PlayerUnknown" Greene, the creator of PUBG and Prologue: Go Wayback!, has publicly thanked the team at PlayerUnknown Productions for its "professionalism" as it "move[s] forward with a smaller team" following issues securing additional funding. Read more
PUBG creator's abandoned survival game Prologue is now free for all, with one final gift
Prologue: Go Wayback might have come to an untimely end, but it will continue to live on for anyone who's interested in trying it. Development on the survival game from PlayerUnknown Productions was officially halted recently due to funding considerations, with the studio continuing to work on its underlying technology...
PUBG now has genAI team mates capable of "intelligent decision-making", and I must remind you that Krafton are working on bots for the military
PUBG: Battlegrounds – aka Plunkbat – is getting generative AI team mates in the shape of PUBG Ally Duo, which is available now in beta. The new functionality uses Nvidia tech to simulate "autonomous game characters that use AI to perceive, plan, and take action within their environment". They also have spee...
PlayerUnknown's survival game becomes free-to-own and offers Steam refunds 'without restrictions on playtime or how long ago you bought the game'
Normally a game leaving early access would be cause for celebration, but I daresay that's not the case for Prologue: Go Wayback! It left early access on Steam today, but it's also doing so in an unfinished state with no plans for further development.The open world survival game from PlayerUnknown Productions launched i...
May’s top grossing mobile games: Honor of Kings, Whiteout Survival, Royal Match, 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...
Steam's second most-played game right now is reportedly a bot-filled marketplace that can get you banned
If you check in with Steam's player population data as much as I do, then you'll know it's pretty common to see an idle game towards the top. Bongo Cat has been sitting up there for basically a year. Banana holds the title of tenth-highest all-time concurrent player peak on Steam.Out with the old, and in with the new,...
PUBG extraction shooter, Black Budget, gets a date for its second playtest
PUBG Black Budget, the military shooter's answer to Escape from Tarkov, finally has a date for its second alpha playtest, and it's soon. Finding a niche somewhere in between the hard-as-nails EFT and the slightly more sci-fi Arc Raiders, Black Budget is a story-driven extraction FPS that drops you and your squad into t...
Task Bar Hero Will Collect More Player Data Following Cheating Controversy
Task Bar Hero has exploded on Steam. At the time of writing, the idle RPG sits just shy of 500,000 concurrent players, making it the second most-played game on the platform, ahead of Dota 2 and PUBG.
Data digest: Türkiye, US, Asia and MENA market stats, Pokémon Go, UA funding and more
Every Wednesday we break down the latest data, research and financial results into digestible chunks. Read on for the numbers you need to know about without the fluff. This column is sponsored by Xsolla, which can help you to create a seamless online store where web purchases can quickly generate new revenue – f...
Steam $20 Survival Game Is Going Free-to-Keep for Good
A survival game called Prologue: Go Wayback, which launched in Early Access on Steam in November 2025, will soon drop its $20 price tag and become free-to-play for all users on Steam. Prologue: Go Wayback is developed by indie studio PlayerUnknown Productions, founded by Brendan Greene, the creator of PUBG.