Palworld News

Palworld battles multiplayer cheaters with a new update, but admits it’s “difficult” to solve straight away

They might not have an enemy in Nintendo’s legal team just yet, but Palworld developers Pocketpair have a different battle to fight in the meantime: online cheaters in the immensely popular ‘Pokémon with guns’ survival game.

If you've yet to acquire a flying mount in Palworld, then the Grappling Gun is a great way to traverse difficult terrain early on. Though it isn't great for combat since it doesn't pull Pals towards you, it does let you zoom up to the top of cliffs without having to worry about a slow climb or your rapidly depleting stamina bar...
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Palworld isn't good enough—or bad enough—to warrant us losing our collective minds over it

Sometimes a game will make its way into the public spotlight not because it's good, inventive, or bad—but simply because it is. It captures a specific moment and gets a bunch of attention at a specific point of time. A small moon that casts a big shadow, like a solar eclipse. Palworld is one of those games...
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We regret to inform you that Palworld has a smutty lizard 'seeking a night of love' with humans, which raids bases in hordes of 'rampaging fangirls'

Palworld is an edgy game—more in implication than reality. While it's grown a reputation for a Happy Tree Friends-style subversiveness, everything in its world is pretty sanitised. For instance: Pals eat human cadavers, but they just peck at them until they vanish...
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Lucky Pals: how 'shiny pals' work in Palworld

Not to be left out of creature catching convention, Palworld does have rarer, more powerful variants that Pokémon players will likely find themselves calling "shiny Pals" out of habit. Officially Palworld calls shinies Lucky Pals instead. You could easily assume otherwise, though, because Lucky Pals literally sparkle while they walk around with a loud, shimmering sound effect...
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