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February 2025 Out of 23 patents filed by Nintendo, only one was approved in the ongoing legal dispute with Pocketpair.
February 2025 The game had sold 4 million units by February 2025, demonstrating significant commercial success.
February 2025 Dead Island 2 sales milestone of 4 million units achieved.
2024 Palworld was nominated for Better With Friends category at The Steam Awards
2024 Palworld had attracted a global audience of more than 25 million players and sold over 15 million units, establishing itself as one of the best-selling PC games.
2024 Palworld was nominated for Best Early Access Game at the Golden Joystick Awards
2024 An update was released that reportedly restored the 'stylish' art direction of the original games, according to VG247's Fran Ruiz.
2024 Season 2 of the Hello Neighbor animated series premiered, with a total of 3 seasons announced, each with 6 episodes.
2024 Full release of Ark: Survival Ascended is planned for late 2024, following the early access period.
December 2024 Nintendo filed a series of patents in the United States aimed at challenging Pocketpair in court.
November 2024 Film adaptation of Hello Neighbor announced on tinyBuild's YouTube channel, to be produced by Boulderlight Pictures with Tyler MacIntyre writing the script.
October 22 2024 Deep Silver announced the Ultimate Edition, bundling the base game with all downloadable content packs.
October 22 2024 Cooperative horde mode 'Neighbourhood Watch' was released through collaboration between Fishlabs and Dambuster Studios.
October 18 2024 Hi-Rez Studios subsidiary Evil Mojo Games announced that the game's servers would be shut down on February 17, 2025.
September 2024 Planned launch of Palworld for PlayStation 5.
September 25 2024 PlayStation 5 version of Palworld was officially released.
September 19 2024 Nintendo and The Pokémon Company filed a lawsuit against Pocketpair, alleging patent rights infringement. Pocketpair responded the same day, expressing disappointment and claiming they were unaware of the specific patent violations.
June 2024 Mobile download figures increase to over 30 million: 3.3 million for Grand Theft Auto III, 6.5 million for Vice City, and 20.5 million for San Andreas.
June 27 2024 Pocketpair announced the first major expansion, including new Pals, a new island called Sakurajima, and additional content.
June 24 2024 Teaser revealed for potential PlayStation 5 release of Palworld.
June 10 2024 Announcement made that Palworld would be released in early access for macOS later in the year.
May 2024 Game sales reached 3 million units.
April 22 2024 Game released on Steam platform.
April 21 2024 Base game released on Windows, initially exclusively on the Epic Games Store.
April 17 2024 Second story expansion 'SOLA Festival' was released.
April 1 2024 Nürburgring 24hr Pack added to the game, featuring the Nürburgring Nordschleife and references to the next Assetto Corsa title.
February 2024 Tekken 7 announced total sales of 11.8 million copies, becoming the most commercially successful game in the Tekken series.
February 19 2024 Public playtesting for Raven Brooks Online concludes.
February 16 2024 Public playtesting begins for Raven Brooks Online, a multiplayer game in the Hello Neighbor universe.
February 11 2024 Palworld experiences a significant player drop on Steam, declining from its peak of 2,101,867 to approximately 750,000 concurrent players.
February 1 2024 Palworld sells 12 million copies on Steam and reaches 7 million players on Xbox, becoming the most-played 3rd party release on Xbox Game Pass with almost 3 million daily active players.
January 2024 Palworld launched through early access for Windows, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S, introducing its unique gameplay concept of monster-taming with firearms.
January 2024 Within the first six days of early access, Palworld sold eight million units and reached over two million concurrent players on Steam, becoming the third-highest played game of all time on the platform.
January 27 2024 Palworld records its peak concurrent player count of 2,101,867 on Steam.
January 26 2024 Tekken 8, the sequel to Tekken 7, was released, continuing the franchise's legacy.
January 24 2024 The Pokémon Company issued a statement indicating they will investigate potential intellectual property rights infringement related to Palworld, indirectly referencing the game's release.
January 24 2024 Palworld reaches over 2,000,000 concurrent players on Steam, becoming the first game since PUBG: Battlegrounds to achieve this milestone.
January 19 2024 Palworld was released through Steam Early Access and Xbox Game Preview, and made available on Game Pass.
January 19 2024 Palworld launches in early access and sells over one million copies within its first eight hours.
2023 Returnal won Best Physical Soundtrack Release at the Game Audio Network Guild Awards
December 2023 Nominated for 'Best Action Game' at The Game Awards 2023.
December 14 2023 Netflix announced the mobile version of The Definitive Edition would be released for Android and iOS, available for Netflix subscribers and individual purchase.
December 14 2023 Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition was released for Android and iOS mobile devices.
December 6 2023 Hello Neighbor Nicky's Diaries was globally released on mobile platforms.
November 30 2023 ARK: Survival Ascended was released for PlayStation 5.
November 30 2023 Ark: Survival Ascended was released in early access for PlayStation 5, completing its initial multi-platform launch.
November 24 2023 Release of Hello Neighbor: Search and Rescue on PlayStation VR.
November 21 2023 ARK: Survival Ascended was released for Xbox Series X/S.
November 21 2023 The game was released in early access for Xbox Series X/S, expanding its platform availability.

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