Ash Parrish

I think we finally found the smoking gun in the Palworld vs. Nintendo plagiarism discourse. But, instead of infringing on Pokémon, Palworld might get got for jacking from one of Nintendo’s other vaunted institutions: Animal Crossing.

ID@Xbox is starting a new program to highlight indie games on Xbox. Indie Selects is a new section of the Xbox Store curating the best indie games on the platform. There will be a featured section then, throughout the year, there will be rotating selections based on a theme. Xbox gave an example of the kinds of themes to expect like ‘Games to play with your cat’ but hopefully they’ll also be extremely specific like ‘Games that are exactly like 2008’s Lost Odyssey’. Here’s hoping.

Palworld’s coming for the kneecaps of all of Steam’s most popular games. Within days of its early access launch it’s sold 6 million copies, rocketed to the top of Steam concurrent player lists, and now it can add another milestone, amassing 1.864 million players to beat Counter-Strike’s all time peak player count.

AGDQ 2024 has just raised $2 million dollars for charity! The charity speedrunning event first broke the $2 million threshold back in 2017 and surpassed that with $3 million just two years later.