Palworld isn’t slowing down, hits 19 million players across Steam and Xbox

Surprise viral gaming hit Palworld continues to reach new player milestones. Today, developer Pocketpair announced that the game has sold 12 million copies on Steam and reached 7 million players on Xbox. The Xbox number includes both sales and those who played via Game Pass, but the breakdown between the two isn’t clear. According to … Read more

Spec Ops: The Line permanently removed from Steam and other digital stores

On X, Cory Davis, the game’s designer and director, was also out of the loop asking the game’s publisher 2K why this happened. “Makes no sense,” Davis wrote. “Especially because the themes portrayed in [Spec Ops: The Line] are more relevant now than ever.” In an email to The Verge, 2K communications director Joe DiMiero … Read more

13 Best Cozy Games (2024) for Switch, PlayStation, Steam, Xbox

It’s the perfect time to start playing cozy games. And by cozy games, I mean the opposite of what you might think. For some, video games are about loud noises, intense competition, and cutthroat leaderboards. These cozy games embody the opposite feeling. They’re mindless but not uninvolved; inviting but not harrying. They’re meant to evoke … Read more

Can MSI’s Steam Deck rival claw its way to handheld gaming success?

June Wan/ZDNET The handheld gaming space grew by one as MSI unveiled their Steam Deck competitor, the Claw A1M. The portable gaming console is the first to be built with Intel’s new Core Ultra chipset, which uses advanced AI algorithms and on-chip video codec support for enhanced video quality while streaming games as well as … Read more

‘The Claw’ Is MSI’s Steam Deck-Like That Looks a Hell of a Lot Like a Steam Deck

Say it with me, “The Claw.” What does that name evoke? Saturday morning cartoons? Timeless Pixar classics? PC maker MSI hopes you’ll start to instead think about gaming, as it’s the latest company to offer up its version of a Steam Deck, and this one indeed shares quite a few similarities to Valve’s original handheld … Read more

Samsung’s New Robot Mop-Vac Hunts Down Stains and Steam Cleans Them for You

If you’ve ever spent too much time and elbow grease scrubbing pet or wine stains from a rug, you know cleaning it up quickly is critical. Samsung’s new Bespoke Jet Bot AI+ smart robot vacuum, unveiled for the first time at CES in Las Vegas, is programmed to roam your home scouting for stains as they … Read more

Steam is going to let you hide the games you don’t want your friends to see

Valve announced a new privacy feature for the Steam client today that lets players choose whether certain games they buy and own are visible to others on the platform. According to the update announcement, starting today, Steam beta testers will be able to mark games as private to keep them, well, private. You can mark … Read more