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After only 24 hours in Early Access, Sons of the Forest has already sold over two million copies.

Sons of the Forest developer Endnight Games shared the news on Twitter alongside promising some exciting things to come in the near future.

“Thanks to those who have joined us in our Early Access journey into Sons of the Forest,” Endnight Games wrote. “We have sold over 2 million copies in the first 24 hours, and are very excited for what we have in store for players in the coming weeks.”

Sons of the Forest, which is an open-world survival horror game that sends players to a remote island filled with cannibals and other dangers to find a missing billionaire, also rose up the concurrent player charts on Steam, with over 350,100 users playing the game at once.

As of this writing, Sons of the Forest is at 255,134 concurrent players and sits only behind Dota 2’s 271,407 players and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive’s 563,954 players on Steam. For comparison, the original game – The Forest – had an all-time peak of 76,226.

We’ll have much more on Sons of the Forest in the future, but you can check out our preview of the game, where we said it, “appears to evolve and build on every aspect of its predecessor with a focused goal of realism and developing a flexible ecosystem, and it feels like the building blocks are there to create something truly special. But its killer feature is the addition of impressively sophisticated and smarter AI enemies and companions that could not only provide a huge leap forward for the series, but the survival game genre as a whole.”

For more, check out five developer tips for surviving your first night in Sons of the Forest, five things you need to know about the game, and our explainer of the story of The Forest to catch you up for this new adventure.

Have a tip for us? Want to discuss a possible story? Please send an email to newstips@ign.com.

Adam Bankhurst is a news writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter @AdamBankhurst and on Twitch.

We’re in an age of remasters and remakes. In the first few months of 2023 alone, we’re seeing relreases of high-profile games like Dead Space, Metroid Prime, and Resident Evil 4. With 2000s nostalgia at an all-time high right now, video game writer David Gaider is calling for a remaster of 2009’s Dragon Age: Origins.

Gaider was the lead writer and setting creator for BioWare’s Dragon Age: Origins, and would go on to work on both Dragon Age II and Dragon Age: Inquisition. On Twitter, Gaider wrote, “If we’re on a kick re-mastering games from the aughts, what about Dragon Age Origins? Its graphics were behind the curve even at the time of release… can you imagine it with brand new PS5-era bells and whistles?”

If we’re on a kick re-mastering games from the aughts, what about Dragon Age Origins? Its graphics were behind the curve even at the time of release… can you imagine it with brand new PS5-era bells and whistles? ?

— David Gaider (@davidgaider) February 23, 2023

Replying to some other Twitter users, Gaider played down the likelihood of a Dragon Age remaster happening, saying “I suspect EA would only do it if they thought it would sell like *gold-plated* hotcakes. They’ve… never really gotten DA, or understood why it sold better than Mass Effect, was my impression.”

The writer also said he’d even be satisfied with “Inquisition-level graphics” and just wants “Morrigan to not have the shoulders of a linebacker and for the sex scenes to not look like someone bashing marionettes together and shouting ‘now kiss!'”

Dragon Age: Origins released to critical acclaim in 2009, and the game made IGN’s list of the best modern RPGs. Recently, Origins’ lead technical artist revealed some of the biggest “what-ifs” from the first game’s development.

We haven’t seen a new Dragon Age game released since Inquisition in 2014, but BioWare is currently working on the upcoming Dragon Age: Dreadwolf. There’s still a long ways to go in development, but the studio recently confirmed that the game is now playable from start to finish. However, the project recently lost its production designer when Mac Walters left BioWare after nearly 20 years.

Logan Plant is a freelance writer for IGN covering video game and entertainment news. He has over six years of experience in the gaming industry with bylines at IGN, Nintendo Wire, Switch Player Magazine, and Lifewire. Find him on Twitter @LoganJPlant.