Survival

Palworld’s new update does more than let your Pals become their true selves. There’s also fishing. And, almost forgot, a portal to the world of Terraria!

The game is very much in development and far from finished, but I think I see where it wants to go.

If you’ve ever punched a tree, you’ve played a survival crafting game. There were a lot of these in 2024. Here’s the ones I played.

Loosing an ultimate evil upon the world starts with clean clothing, good food, well-built homes and safe streets.

Getting ready for killing the Goblin King was bad enough. Mistlands is worse.

I’m still playing Palworld, but I’m really not sure why…

Okay, there’s a lot of gaming stuff going on so I’m just going to go over some of it, briefly.

PlayStation Plus offered Ark: Survival Evolved last spring, but I only got intrigued enough to give it a try when I saw a friend tweeting about. I just had to see what it was all about – Valheim, but with dinosaurs? The PlayStation 5 version doesn’t seem to let you connect to hosted servers, like the ones G-Portal offers. That’s where we hosted Valheim and V Rising. So I opted to just start a single player world, just to see what sort of excitement Ark held for me. ...

I asked OpenAI’s GPT-3 to generate 31 different videogame ideas, one for each day of Blaugust, each dealing in some way with that particular day of the month. Here’s its idea for August 10th: “10 Million B.C.”. Number: 10. Genre: Open-world action RPG. Title: “10 Million B.C.” Outline: In this open-world action RPG set in the time of the dinosaurs, you play as a young hunter who must survive in a hostile world filled with giant beasts. Tame dinosaurs and use them to help you travel across the vast landscape and discover lost civilizations. ...

Ever want to play a vampire who hides from the sun in the castle they have built to protect their riches from other vampires? Then this is literally the game for you. If you’re more in the mood for a PvE survival game, though… have you heard the good news about Valheim? Team Spode has been playing V Rising for a couple of months and I have not written about it until now. I’m not even sure if I’ve mentioned it on social media. I’ve been trying to answer the question for myself of why I am not enthusiastic about this game? ...