How Paralives 'life sim'-ed it to 750k Steam wishlists
19.2.2024
Also: that Epic Games Store 'year in review' & lots of discovery news
Helldivers 2's Success Is Making Everyone Watch This Misunderstood Movie
19.2.2024
It’s fair to say that Helldivers 2 is having a good week. Beating GTA V’s concurrent Steam players records, the extraction shooter is outdoing everyone’s expectations, including its own, and it seems this success is spilling over. Because if there’s one source that Helldivers owes the most to, it’s...
PowerWash Simulator Is Getting Space Marines Because Sometimes The Universe Is Good
19.2.2024
Alongside a worldwide vaccination program, PowerWash Simulator is the only reason humanity survived Covid. The 2022 release, inexplicably published by Square Enix, asked us simply to clean. Clean playgrounds, houses, flying saucers, all caked in a thick layer of mud and grime. It was, and still...
Helldivers 2 Sees Over 400,000 Concurrent Players On Steam Alone
19.2.2024
Third-person shooter sensation Helldivers 2 reached an extraordinary 409,337 concurrent players over the weekend. That makes it the fifth most popular game on Steam, a fact made all the more impressive when you factor in that three of those five games are free, compared to Helldivers 2's...
Are These The Cutest Pokémon Plushes Ever Made?
19.2.2024
If you, like me, are a child, you’ll regularly refresh the new releases on the official Pokémon store to see what madcap paraphernalia its selling today. With almost daily drops, these additions can be anything from a statue of Ditto eating Pewter Crunchies, to an entire range of wildly overpriced...
Super Meat Boy Forever Will Be Free This Week On Epic
19.2.2024
Every week, out of the kindness of its bulging heart, Epic gives a game away for free on its PC games store it desperately wishes you’d use instead of Steam. Pure altruism, no doubt. At the time of writing, for instance, you can pick up Dakar Desert Rally gratis. From February 22, it’ll be Super...
Helldivers 2 bourají rekordy a nestíhají odbavovat nápor hráčů
19.2.2024
Povedená online střílečka Helldivers se tak trochu stává obětí vlastního úspěchu, když ani po deseti dnech od vydání nedokáže ukojit všechny zájemce o svůj nelítostný svět. Aby hra mohla fungovat dál, byli vývojáři donuceni omezit počet souběžně připojených hráčů na 450 tisíc. To je ovšem příliš...
Stormgate's Ex-Blizzard Devs Want Players To Invest In The Company
19.2.2024
As 2024's big bad—Late Stage Capitalism—continues its grim rampage, some developers are looking to more innovative approaches to avoid the publishing industry’s self-sabotaging need for impossibly endless growth. Stormgate creator Frost Giant—a studio created by former StarCraft 2 devs—is following...
Posel Smrti je na HitHitu. Žádá o peníze na remaster hudby i nový díl
19.2.2024
Jeden z autorů jednadvacet let staré klasiky Posel Smrti žádá na portálu pro komunitní financování HitHit fanoušky o sedmdesát tisíc korun, aby mohl znovu vydat soundtrack nejlepší české adventury v remasterované podobě. Do budoucna by pak rád vytvořil i nový díl
Epic loni rozdal 586 milionů her. Platící zákazníci se ale nehrnou
19.2.2024
Ani pátý rok své existence neslevil digitální obchod Epic Store ze své politiky rozdávat hráčům každý týden hry zdarma. Každý z 270 milionů zaregistrovaných uživatelů si jich vloni mohl stáhnout 86 v hodnotě téměř 50 tisíc korun. Samotný úrodej „cizích“ her ovšem stále představuje jen necelou...
Potetovaný podivín zrušil žalobu na GTA 6, místo toho by rád dostal roli
19.2.2024
Američan Lawrence Patrick Sullivan, známý kvůli svému výraznému tetování na obličeji jako Floridský Joker, už nechce za údajnou krádež podoby po autorech chystaného herního hitu Grand theft Auto 6 miliony dolarů. Spokojí se prý s pár set tisíci a ještě jim poskytne svůj hlas
PS5 Life Cycle, FF7 Paint, And More Of This Week's Strongest Opinions
18.2.2024
It was another week of game news and therefore, game opinions—from the value of yellow paint in the Final Fantasy 7 demo to reactions to the Official Xbox Podcast airing. But this week wasn’t just about reacting to game news—we also got our hands on the upcoming RPG Unicorn Overlord and spent some...