Game News Round-Up

Palworld announces major update, Terraria crossover despite ongoing legal issues

Plague Inc gets surprise sequel where you rebuild humanity following devastating zombie apocalypse

• After Inc is available to install now on iOS and Android. It will be coming to Steam in 2025

Epic's latest free game now live and two more for next week officially revealed

• Brotato is free to download right now until next Thursday, 5th December
• Next week, Bus Simulator 21 and Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga will be free to claim

Scopely opens new studio (Mirai) in Saudi Arabia led by EA veteran Charity Joy

• Joy worked at EA for three years, joining as franchise senior producer on EA Sports in 2021 before moving to Criterion as executive producer in 2022. She then became general manager in November 2023 before leaving in October 2024.
• She also worked for The Walt Disney Company as production manager on Club Penguin in 2007. She went on to become creative director in 2014.

Codecks nets €1 million in funding for game dev project management tool

• Codecks uses a card-and-deck system that lets developers to track project milestones and share decks with outside devs.
• The tool is in use by companies such as Unity, 505 Games, and Devolver Digital.