Dragon Sword: Awakening
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Steam Week in Review: Once positioned as mainstream-friendly PC gaming solutions, can Valve's hardware survive the…
Valve's Steam Deck and Steam Machine hardware are facing challenges due to rising component costs, exacerbated by AI data center demand, leading to significant price increases. Despite these issues and a muted reception for the Steam Machine, the Steam Deck continues to appear on Steam's top sellers list, indicating ongoing consumer interest.
Surprise Hit 2026 Korean RPG Coming to PlayStation
Developer Hound13 announced that its hit Korean RPG, DragonSword: Awakening, will be released on PlayStation and Nintendo Switch in the future, following its successful PC launch. The game, which sold over 200,000 units in its first week, features an open world, companion recruitment, and tag-team battles against a reawakened dragon.
DragonSword: Awakening coming to Nintendo
Hound13 has confirmed that DragonSword: Awakening will be ported to an unspecified Nintendo console, following its successful PC launch where it sold over 200,000 units in its first week. The game features an anime-style open world built with Unreal Engine 5, tag-team combat with status ailments, and a narrative focused on a young boy destined to save the continent.
The new open-world RPG climbing Steam is the biggest surprise since Crimson Desert: huge, pretty, and only $30
DragonSword: Awakening, an open-world action RPG from developer Hound13, has launched on Steam to positive reviews, achieving 90% positive feedback after over 4,600 player reviews. Despite a complicated development history involving publisher disputes and a last-minute delay, the game is praised for its premium pricing model, avoiding gacha mechanics, and offering a vast amount of content for $30. It has seen strong concurrent player numbers on Steam, running on Unreal Engine 5.
Dragon Sword Launch Halted Due to Developer-Publisher Conflict - GameHaunt
The PC release of Dragon Sword: Awakening has been halted due to a legal dispute between developer Hound13 and publisher Webzen. Webzen filed an injunction to block Hound13 from self-publishing the game on Steam, citing contract violations and financial disagreements. The game's planned July launch is now indefinitely postponed as the courts review the publishing contract.
