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Kaan Serin

As the live service wars continue, analyst says games like Black Myth: Wukong, Palworld, and Helldivers 2 prove it's hard to predict the next hit: "All bets are off"

Black Myth: Wukong.

2025 is absolutely stacked with massive games to look forward to - from GTA 6 to whatever launches on the Nintendo Switch successor - but one industry analyst reckons games like Palworld, Black Myth: Wukong, and Helldivers 2 will continue to break through the noise because it's getting "more difficult" to predict the hits.

In an interview with GamesRadar+, Circana executive director Mat Piscatella said that while the mass market chooses titans like Minecraft and Roblox, enthusiast gamers are leaning toward the unexpected, "looking at things like Black: Myth Wukong and Palworld and Helldivers 2... these kinds of games are the ones that are winning."

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