SpaceX's Starbase general manager, Kathy Leuders, has shared details about when her firm will catch the Starship second-stage rocket with the tower catch arms. SpaceX made history in October after it caught the Super Heavy booster for the first time with the launch tower. The achievement was remarkable, particularly since the booster catch was successful on its first attempt - an outcome many industry watchers had been skeptical of. The tower catch is key to Starship's goal of rapid re-usability, and the next step in the process is to catch the upper-stage rocket with the tower arms. Speaking at an […]
Today we are taking stock of a some of the biggest and best upcoming Black Friday deals we know about thus far. Up to this point, this year’s Black Friday ads and early details have mainly focused on various early sale events at retailers like Best Buy...
It took some clever engineering to reduce the footprint of the redesigned Mac mini while also equipping it with some incredibly powerful internals. Still critics will be quick to point fingers at Apple on certain decisions, such as moving the power button to the bottom of the chassis. While it can become an inconvenience to power the machine, two Apple executives explain why this position exists and why it is not a big deal for people who brought up the issue in the first place. Most Mac mini owners would never power off their device and would rather put it […]
The new mobile card game Pokémon TCG Pocket has been with us for just over a week, which has given 20 million people time to discover its highs, lows, and utterly bewildering mess of in-game currencies. It’s also, unfortunately, long enough for most pe...
A big part of Palworld is, of course, collecting the Pokémon-like Pals themselves, but sometimes, finding or catching a particular Pal can feel like a real chore. Should you happen to be tired of scouring the world to try and capture a specific Pal, th...
Palworld has been topping up the charts regarding player counts, but this has come with a "cost," as the developer Pocketpair reveals that they are spending huge on maintaining servers. The CEO, Takuro Mizobe, revealed the information in a post, exclaiming that Palworld is getting costly to keep the servers online. In a post on X, he disclosed that maintaining the servers has cost the firm a whopping 70 million yen, equivalent to around $475,000. Moreover, Takuro joked about the high costs as well, claiming that the firm would go "bankrupt from server fees," although it is highly likely that […]
Palworld's been one of those games that has dominated the world due to its unique "premise." Said premise is the cutesy little Pokemon-like Pals wielding guns while you explore a world of wonder. I won't address the discourse surrounding Palworld in this article; I'm here to offer my thoughts on the game after playing it for a few hours. While the Internet is currently deciding whether or not the game has ripped off GameFreak's property, I was busy immersing myself in the game. In other words, I spent a long period playing the game, capturing the creatures, and seeing what […]
February is in full swing, new games have arrived, and we’re looking at a month full of some pretty neat games to pick up in the coming weeks. So what are we here at Kotaku looking forward to spending our time with this weekend?Read more...
Open-world survival game Palworld lets you explore the world and craft away at your own pace, tending to your survival needs and your crafting goals as you like. But of course, there are always some best practices. And when it comes to the game’s early...
New survival sensation Palworld, which earned the nickname “Pokémon with guns,” has taken the darn internet by storm. Though its popularity is complicated by clear similarities to that other monster-catching game, many are finding absolute joy in its g...
A new Palworld mod that was released online today enables some ray tracing features, improves ambient occlusion and shadow quality and more. The RTX Ray tracing and DirectX12 For Your Pals mod, which can be downloaded from Nexus Mods, is a modified configuration file that enables some ray tracing functions, changes the rendering API to DirectX 12, and improves visuals by increasing native rendering from 100% to 120%, removing fog, increasing quality of the PostFX effects, increasing Anisotropic Filtering to x16 and more. The enabling of ray tracing features and some of the tweaks impact performance considerably, so try it […]
Here's your daily Palworld sales update: the open world survival crafting game with monster collection mechanics has now surpassed eight million units sold on Steam alone in less than a week from the early access launch. It also broke the two million concurrent players milestone on Valve's platform, a feat that was only ever managed by PUBG: Battlegrounds back when the Battle Royale game was at its height. There's still over a million difference between the two, but it would not be wise to discount Palworld at this point. There's not much official data on the Xbox version of the […]
The “Pokemon with guns” open-world survival game Palworld has been on one a hell of a run since launching last week, smashing records and generating plenty of controversy, but once all the fevered excitement dies down just a little, what comes next? Palworld is still in early access, so there are plenty more updates to come, and today developer PocketPair provided a bit of a roadmap. In the near term, PocketPair isn’t setting their sights too high, as they look to address various bugs, improve Pal AI and more. Longer term, they have a number of more ambitious plans, including […]
A big part of Palworld is, of course, collecting the Pokémon-like Pals themselves, but sometimes, finding or catching a particular Pal can feel like a real chore. Should you happen to be tired of scouring the world to try and capture a specific Pal, th...
Palworld has been topping up the charts regarding player counts, but this has come with a "cost," as the developer Pocketpair reveals that they are spending huge on maintaining servers. The CEO, Takuro Mizobe, revealed the information in a post, exclaiming that Palworld is getting costly to keep the servers online. In a post on X, he disclosed that maintaining the servers has cost the firm a whopping 70 million yen, equivalent to around $475,000. Moreover, Takuro joked about the high costs as well, claiming that the firm would go "bankrupt from server fees," although it is highly likely that […]
Palworld's been one of those games that has dominated the world due to its unique "premise." Said premise is the cutesy little Pokemon-like Pals wielding guns while you explore a world of wonder. I won't address the discourse surrounding Palworld in this article; I'm here to offer my thoughts on the game after playing it for a few hours. While the Internet is currently deciding whether or not the game has ripped off GameFreak's property, I was busy immersing myself in the game. In other words, I spent a long period playing the game, capturing the creatures, and seeing what […]
February is in full swing, new games have arrived, and we’re looking at a month full of some pretty neat games to pick up in the coming weeks. So what are we here at Kotaku looking forward to spending our time with this weekend?Read more...
Open-world survival game Palworld lets you explore the world and craft away at your own pace, tending to your survival needs and your crafting goals as you like. But of course, there are always some best practices. And when it comes to the game’s early...
New survival sensation Palworld, which earned the nickname “Pokémon with guns,” has taken the darn internet by storm. Though its popularity is complicated by clear similarities to that other monster-catching game, many are finding absolute joy in its g...
A new Palworld mod that was released online today enables some ray tracing features, improves ambient occlusion and shadow quality and more. The RTX Ray tracing and DirectX12 For Your Pals mod, which can be downloaded from Nexus Mods, is a modified configuration file that enables some ray tracing functions, changes the rendering API to DirectX 12, and improves visuals by increasing native rendering from 100% to 120%, removing fog, increasing quality of the PostFX effects, increasing Anisotropic Filtering to x16 and more. The enabling of ray tracing features and some of the tweaks impact performance considerably, so try it […]
Here's your daily Palworld sales update: the open world survival crafting game with monster collection mechanics has now surpassed eight million units sold on Steam alone in less than a week from the early access launch. It also broke the two million concurrent players milestone on Valve's platform, a feat that was only ever managed by PUBG: Battlegrounds back when the Battle Royale game was at its height. There's still over a million difference between the two, but it would not be wise to discount Palworld at this point. There's not much official data on the Xbox version of the […]
The “Pokemon with guns” open-world survival game Palworld has been on one a hell of a run since launching last week, smashing records and generating plenty of controversy, but once all the fevered excitement dies down just a little, what comes next? Palworld is still in early access, so there are plenty more updates to come, and today developer PocketPair provided a bit of a roadmap. In the near term, PocketPair isn’t setting their sights too high, as they look to address various bugs, improve Pal AI and more. Longer term, they have a number of more ambitious plans, including […]