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The CEO of Pocketpair, the studio behind hit game Palworld, has revealed that the cost of running the gaming company’s servers is becoming a major concern for the company amid soaring costs.

Pocketpair is behind many popular games, including Palworld, Craftopia, and Overdungeon, which are available on Steam, a popular video game distribution service and storefront.

DENVER, Feb. 05, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — On February 2, 2024, IBCAP member DISH Network L.L.C. received a settlement payment of $3,000,000, resolving its lawsuit against Datacamp Limited, a U.K.-based company providing global content delivery network (CDN) services under the name CDN77 and dedicated servers and network services under the name Datapacket. The IBCAP-coordinated lawsuit, filed in February 2022 in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, asserted claims against Datacamp for contributory and vicarious copyright infringement for allowing continued use of the Datacamp services by 11 different pirate services.

The complaint alleged that Datacamp received nearly 400 notices of infringement from IBCAP but did little to stop the pirate services…

If you have somehow missed this story as it has been evolving, Japanese indie hit Palworld has been tearing up the leaderboards on both Steam and Xbox platforms. As we reported on Thursday, it has over 19 million players between the two stores, and while it’s available on Game Pass, the majority of the players are actually on Steam.

Now, Palworld is a multiplayer game. You can play it solo, but it’s intended to be played with up to 32 players in a single massive open world. This is one of many characteristics that the survival game inherited from Minecraft, ARK Survival Evolved, and similar “survival-craft” titles. Multiplayer games need game servers, and while you can host your own dedicated server for your friends, there are indeed quite a number of official servers as well.

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Top web hosting company Hostinger says that 2023 proved to be a particular bumper year for malware, as its Monarx powered scanner service successfully identified and cleaned close to 500 million threats through the year, which equates to 250 instances per customer.

While this figure is half of what it was in 2022, this is largely due to the company’s successful efforts to combat Phoenix, an uploader notorious for delivering other malware to systems. 

Apple settled a class-action lawsuit this week that accused Apple of misrepresenting the way subscriptions to third-party apps worked with Family Sharing.

As part of the settlement, Apple has agreed to pay out $25 million to people who participated in a Family Sharing group with at least one other member who also had a subscription to the app through the App Store between June 21, 2015, and January 30, 2019.

The issue lies in how Family Sharing subscriptions were shared. Family Sharing is advertised to allow participants to share subscriptions; however, Apple also allows developers to opt out of allowing families to share subscriptions to its apps, which resulted in the lawsuit.

While Apple chose to settle, it denies that it made any misleading misrepresentations about the Family…