Palworld's Daily Active Players Briefly Surpassed Fortnite on Xbox in the US

As we noted yesterday, Pokemon Day is drawing ever closer. Right now, it’s two weeks away, and fans are curious about what might be done during the traditional fan-made holiday that The Pokemon Company later turned into an annual event. We say “annual event” because the company also seems to do something on the day to honor the brand and give fans something in return for their loyalty to it. Many are wondering whether a Pokemon Presents will happen, potentially showing off the new games they’re making or getting hints at what may be in the pipeline.

The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood, one of the best games of 2023, is threatening to let players have sex with its god-like creature.

One Palworld player has built a base that looks very similar to the Colosseum. With its mixture of survival and crafting, Palworld offers an experience that many players find enjoyable. The main appeal of Pocket Pair's indie game is to nurture Pals, monstrous creatures that can be found in the wild. In a massive open world, players can make their own fun by crafting various items, collecting natural resources, and building bases.

A Palworld player has discovered yet another ridiculous bug in the game, one that leaves their character walking funny seemingly without end. Palworld fans have been running into bugs as they play the game, but so far, most of them have been harmless and amusing rather than gamebreaking.

A Palworld player has created a mod that adds their version of the Nuzlocke Challenge. Palworld offers a lot for players to do, and the experience is expanded even further with the possibility of installing mods. Thanks to this, Palworld players have been creating a variety of mods that add different features to the open-world survival game.

If you're looking for a challenge (and to complete the game) you'll want to take on the Palworld bosses.

Pocket monster smash hit Palworld has been played by over 19 million players.

As a lifelong fan of Pokémon, I’m used to seeing other games in the “monster tamer” genre that are clearly inspired by it, from Temtem to Ni no Kuni, but nothing made me do a double take quite like Palworld, aka Pokémon With Guns. The first trailer of what looked like a heavily armed Pokemon Trainer using a terrified little pocket monster as a bullet shield was like a meme come to life. While the ridiculous concept is good for a laugh, what’s not so much of a laughing matter is how developer Pocketpair has seemingly copied elements of more than a few Pokémon designs when making its own creatures for Palworld, called Pals.

Everything can be automated in Palworld. Assign Pals to jobs and skip all the busy work. Your captured critters can build for you and complete various jobs around your base — they can collect resources, craft at workbenches, or just clear out areas full of enemies. Pals naturally will just do whatever, so if you want your Pals to focus on a single job, you’ll need to use this very simple trick.

A Palworld player lost hours of progress after accidentally destroying his base in tragic fashion. Palworld has earned praise for its base-building mechanics, but things can get a little finicky sometimes.

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Palworld arrived on Steam less than a week ago, but themed gaming PC builds are already showing up online. While you won’t need a fancy new graphics card to hit the critter collecting survival game’s recommended specs, the new line up by UK builder CCL Computers comes armed with a new gen Nvidia GPU and one of my favorite Intel i5 CPUs. Oh, and while I’m not really that into the look of Pocketpair’s uncanny pocket monsters, these machines are a weird blend of cute and unsettling.