Our latest coverage of Palworld.
Palworld players will soon be able to pit their trusty gun-toting creatures against each other and developer Pocket Pair is giving the gaming community a brief glimpse of what to expect. The studio rolled out a 10-second teaser for the Pal Arena, a new Pokémon Colosseum-like instance where players can go head-to-head with a team of Pals. The trailer shows [...]
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Palworld’s first-ever raid boss, Bellanoir, has arrived in a hail of fire as Update 0.2.0.6 lands on the critter-collecting survival MMO. You won’t have to travel far to pick a fight against the raid boss, as you’ll be able to summon her right from your own backyard by building a Summoning Altar. What’s in it for you? Well, aside from [...]
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Hit critter-collecting survival game Palworld is enlisting the help of its players to help test out new updates before they’re released into the untamed wilds of the early access build. With that in mind, developer Pocket Pair officially opened sign-ups for a separate testing branch to help kick the tires of upcoming content releases. Applicants will need to have a [...]
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Heads up Palworld peeps! Pocket Pair is ramping up the endgame challenge with the critter-collecting survival MMO’s first raid boss, Bellanoir. Details are a bit thin right now, although she appears to be a dark type Pal who’ll be making her explosive entrance amid a hail of meteors. “A powerful evil Pal has appeared and is laying siege to the [...]
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Given the meteoric success of several newly released live service games, some developers will probably be tempted to take a stab at a live service title of their own. Cliff Bleszinski, however, offers a word of caution, saying that it’s an extremely daunting task with no assurance of success and that the likes of Palworld and Helldivers 2 are exceptions. [...]
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This week’s Palworld update dropped a whole host of quality of life improvements and bug fixes, one of which “inadvertently” fixed a popular exploit that allowed players to catch the incredibly powerful tower boss. The trick was to attack the tower’s Palpagos Island Defense Force (PIDF) officers to get a wanted level, fast travel to the Marcus and Faleris boss [...]
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Pocket Pair continues to make life easier for Palworld players, particularly when it comes to managing their critter sweat shops. Before players got access to industrial-grade machines, they had to help their Pals out with crafting by spamming the F key. This is especially tedious in the early game when you needed to hit the F key at longer intervals. [...]
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Surprise hit Palworld is expecting its next update this week, and while not much is known about the patch, its probably going to introduce more quality-of-life features and better anti-cheating measures. The Pokémon-like survival MMO’s early access roadmap also teased the addition of new islands, new Pals, and new bosses, although it’s unclear whether any of those will be included [...]
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Palworld has hit another major milestone as the Pokémon-with-guns game hits 25 million total players a month after its early access launch. Developer Pocket Pair broke the news on X (formerly Twitter), touting 15 million players on Steam and 10 million players on Xbox to date including Game Pass subscribers. Meanwhile, peak daily concurrency now sits at roughly 330,000 players [...]
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Palworld has seen a significant drop in its player count since it set an all-time high of 2.1 million players a little over two weeks ago. Peak daily concurrency is now down by roughly 70% to just 610,050 players as of this writing, making it the biggest two-week drop in Steam’s history. It’s quite the step-down, but the Pokémon-with-guns survival [...]
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