Latest articles by Anne-Marie Ostler
2 months after launch, Palworld is still averaging over 100,000 concurrent players a day on Steam even with the biggest content updates still to come
News Plenty of players are still spending time with their Pals
Helldivers 2 director asked players how to fight serial kickers, and the community's got one surefire way to humble toxic hosts: throw their samples in the abyss
news Players are fighting back against this unsporting behaviour in the best possible way
Early Dragon's Dogma 2 scores put reviews far above the original and even its Dark Arisen revision as one of 2024's best RPGs
news The sequel is off to a flying start
As fans praise the "unbelievable" and silly physics, Helldivers 2 director explains it's the result of "simulating everything and just accepting the outcome"
news The shooter's ragdoll physics are comedy gold
Red Dead Redemption 2's first patch in over a year finally fixes a bug that players have been saddled with for over 18 months
news Update 1.32 means you no longer have to worry about getting stuck in stables
With 20 milliseconds to go, brave Helldivers 2 player clutches 45 Samples "outnumbered, surrounded, leg broken, out of stims" after a clown fiesta extract
News "A true hero of democracy"
Overwatch 2 was reportedly due to get story missions every 18 months
news Development issues and lacklustre sales could spell the end for story missions in Overwatch 2
Red Dead Redemption 2 Arthur Morgan and John Marston actors gatecrash a university class using the open-world cowboy game to learn about American history
news Imagine being the kid that didn’t show up for class that day
For the first time, you can get underrated action-RPG Deus Ex: Mankind Divided for free on Epic Games Store
news Grab the stylish sequel for the grand sum of zero from now until March 21
Destiny 2 devs announce "big content update" Into The Light for April as the space MMO's forever season continues in the wait for The Final Shape
news The upcoming content will be showcased in a series of livestreams starting next week
"I see consolidation to be the enemy of creativity," says former PlayStation chief Shawn Layden, as Jim Ryan says he was "thrilled" to sign Microsoft's Call of Duty deal
news "That was very important to us, and we're very happy to have done that deal"
Helldivers 2's best mission is locked to lower levels, and democratic players really want to carry and raise the flag of Super Earth even on higher difficulties
news Fans reckon a bit of flag-raising would "really boost that morale on the harder missions"
10 years later, Dark Souls 2 is finally playable at 120fps thanks to modders
news DS2FrameUnlimiter allows Scholar of the First Sin to run at higher framerates without speedup issues
Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth director says Queen's Blood expansions are "a possibility" following "very positive feedback" to the JRPG's best minigame
news There could be more in store for the distracting deckbuilder
Helldivers 2 players are preparing for the worst as clues suggest a classic enemy much bigger than Bile Titans could be about to rear its ugly head
news Series veterans think Arrowhead is about to add Hive Lords to the mix
Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth's director wasn't expecting the RPG to reignite the 'yellow paint' discourse, but will "take on board the valuable feedback for future games"
news "I didn't think that the 'yellow paint' would be something that would be discussed on social media"
Baldur's Gate 3 Monk "that practices the Way of the Sticky Hand" forced to do the final fight alone after angering most of the RPG's cast by stealing one sword
news "They abandoned me and the fate of The Realms over one little sword"
Starfield players despair as the latest patch does away with a sneaky method for obtaining one of the best spacesuits early on: "It wasn't a bug; it was a feature!"
news The Mark 1 Spacesuit is now off limits until you're a master lock picker
Departing from the books, Dune MMO confirms religions, but "Leading people on a holy war is not why you arrive on Arrakis"
news "The player is not a messiah"
After 13 years, the 3DS is a retro console in a new Pokemon ad, and millennial Nintendo fans can't handle it
news "Can't we wait until a system is 20 years old before we do a childhood flashback scene"
Zelda modder adds Tears of the Kingdom's best ability to one of the series' most iconic entries
news Want to use Ultrahand in Ocarina of Time? There's a mod for that
Last Epoch dev disables family sharing in its action RPG in an attempt to curb "significant" botting and real-money trading abuse
news Eleventh Hour Games says it will continue to explore options for supporting this feature in the future
Baldur's Gate 3 dev confirms the Xbox retail version will have 4 discs because the epic RPG was 500MB too big to fit on 3, but it "didn't make sense" to cut any content
news Larian wasn't lying when it said the Deluxe Edition includes "a f***-ton of discs"
