'Palworld' leaves early access with its 1.0 update
Pocketpair's creature-collecting survival game gains a new region, dozens of Pals and a reworked story after two and a half years in early access.

Rachel Chinouriri
Pocketpair's creature-collecting survival game gains a new region, dozens of Pals and a reworked story after two and a half years in early access.
Around 51 developers lost their jobs at the Spanish studio, which had just finished work on 'Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced', according to reports.
Thomas Kail's remake opens on 10th July, a day after Sébastien Vaniček's sixth 'Evil Dead' film reached UK screens.
The actor, best known for the 1970s firefighting and paramedic drama, died on 10th July following a prolonged illness.
The game, a remake of 2013's 'Black Flag', has also become the best-reviewed entry in the series since the original.
Ubisoft's pirate remake and EA Sports' college football sim both arrived on 9th July.
The image-generating company has asked a California court to review a ruling that denied it access to the studios' internal artificial intelligence practices.
The London-born actor died at Temecula Valley Hospital in California on 9th July.
The two shows took seven nominations each at the 78th Emmy Awards without reaching the top category, and Selena Gomez was left out of the comedy acting races.
Isabel J. Kim's doppelgänger thriller is at its best when Rose returns to Seoul and finds another version of herself already living there.
Sébastien Vaniček stages the carnage brilliantly. The family drama gets buried under it.
Apple TV's horror comedy, which arrived on 29th April, is up for comedy series and has six acting nominations.
Ethan Hawke's 'The Lowdown', Taylor Sheridan's 'The Madison' and NBC's 'The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins' all finished the morning with nothing at all.
The fifth and final season of the HBO Max comedy has beaten the 23 nominations shared by 'The Bear' and 'The Studio'.
The nominations for the 78th Emmy Awards were announced in Los Angeles on 8th July, with Apple TV's 'Widow's Bay' and 'Pluribus' next on 19 and 18.
The publisher's programme for Comic-Con International 2026 in San Diego, which runs from 22nd to 26th July, includes panels on 'Batman: Caped Crusader' and 'My Adventures with Superman'.
Nintendo has confirmed that the mobile racer will end service on 30th September, closing out almost seven years of Mario Kart Tour.
id Software has released a new campaign expansion for 'DOOM: The Dark Ages', adding a Chain Spear weapon and new purgatory-set levels.
The Outer Worlds 2 and Avowed developer has lost roughly 60 to 70 staff, including a number of senior developers, in Xbox's July restructuring.
Both stations returned to their 42nd Street studios later the same night after debris fell from a building undergoing renovation across the street.