Ark- Survival Ascended lead designer Jeremy Stieglitz admits ‘the servers are ass, they run like ass, and their stability is ass’-
This story originally stated that crossplay had been disabled for PC players—to clarify, that was only true of PC players using Windows 10.
Ark: Survival Ascended, the Unreal Engine 5 remaster of Ark: Survival Evolved, had a heck of a launch in early October. With 600,000 copies sold after only two weeks, it looked like it’d quickly march right up the list of the most played games on Steam, where the original dino survival game perched for so many years.
Not quite. Ascended is currently averaging about 50,000 concurrent players and sits at around number 20 on the Steam charts, which is impressive—but player satisfaction is a different story. Ark is currently sporting the dreaded “Mixed” reviews label on Steam, and only abo…
Read moreHere’s a game that combines jigsaw puzzles with arithmetic problems to great success
An upcoming indie puzzler takes on the complexity of circuits by reducing them to familiar puzzle pieces and simple math. In Electrogical, set to release this year and with a demo out now, you’ll place pieces on the board to form a chain that adds, subtracts, divides, and multiplies to reach a set output—but the pieces you have are fixed in shape and rotation, the boards are weird sizes, and you might not need every part you have to succeed.
It’s pretty approachable for both a puzzle game and a math game, without time or attempt limits or anything like that, and it aims to reward creative approaches by the player. The cool part is when it starts messing with the formula: Challenge levels have simple solutions, but let you chase high scores by using more pieces, or fewer pi…
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