The Latest Breaking News from John Bucky Buckley

"Save them Bucky": Fans hope for the best after Palworld and Pocketpair Publishing lead asks Romero Games about its defunded game – "Would love to hear more about this project if possible"

It's nothing concrete, but it's not nothing

GamesRadar · Jul 3, 2025

Palworld's Terraria update lands it back in Steam's Top 10 with over 120,000 players coming back, but its community manager is just waiting for people to brand it a 'dead game' again

Quit telling people I'm dead.

PC Gamer · Jul 2, 2025

Palworld is back in Steam's top 10 thanks to its Terraria update, but one dev is "sure it'll be branded a 'dead game' for the 100th time a week from now"

Over 100,000 players doesn't seem dead to me

GamesRadar · Jun 30, 2025

New Palworld update Tides of Terraria is a survival game collab "full of new Pals, new islands, new things to do" coming this summer

You feel an evil presence watching you…

GamesRadar · May 13, 2025

Palworld dev explains what's going on with its slick Dead Cells-style "Metroidvania x Roguelite," which has its own team who "used to be at Pocketpair"

The team still works in Pocketpair's offices, unconventionally, but they're somewhat separate

GamesRadar · Apr 18, 2025

Palworld developer says reaching 32 million players is "unexplainable" and "a lot of people don't realize how much of an anomaly that is"

One of a kind

GamesRadar · Apr 18, 2025

How does Pocketpair spend all that Palworld money? Dev says they can take "risks" even if "we don't know what we're doing," trusting the CEO has "squirreled away enough to keep us alive"

It's good to be Pocketpair

GamesRadar · Apr 8, 2025

Palworld dev says the studio went dark for months because "the team was getting burnt out from all the social media stuff, I was getting burnt out, our CEO was under attack in Japan"

"We really tried to push back on the AI stuff specifically"

GamesRadar · Mar 31, 2025

"Minutes after Palworld released," Pocketpair was already getting game pitches from "some really big names" before it even set up its own publisher: "No one has money at the moment"

"we're kind of open to helping people with their weird little ideas because they have them"

GamesRadar · Mar 30, 2025

Palworld dev "secretly" brought a game it's publishing to an event that's "not like anything we've been involved in" and reactions are "very positive"

Pocketpair didn't tell anyone it was involved with the game

GamesRadar · Mar 30, 2025