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The most popular Silksong mods tone down Team Cherry's cruelty, and this Elden Ring-inspired solution to ridiculous boss runbacks makes a very fair point
News "Respawn at the scene entrance instead of at a bench miles away"
The good news is Silksong has a true cheat code for a different difficulty setting, the bad news is it makes the whole game exponentially harder
News Hollow Knight: Silksong should be harder, actually, said nobody at all
Silksong is way harder than Hollow Knight, and my theory is that Team Cherry became evil masterminds without even realizing it
Feature Opinion | The Hollow Knight: Silksong difficulty jump has thrown me for a loop
Through dark magic, one dev looks to have captured the magic of Sekiro in a gorgeous 2D game – I've followed it for a year, it finally has a Steam page, and I hammered the Wishlist button into dust
News False Princess Iruruu finally approaches
Wizards of the Coast boss and ex WoW dev would love a new D&D MMO, but says "the traditional model" Blizzard used "could use updating"
News "We'll want to rethink what an MMO is in this day and age"
Helldivers 2 has a new and brutal meat grinder: Oshaune has killed over 156 million Divers so far with one of the worst mission failure rates in the game's history
News Oshaune expeditions have come at "significant cost"
Destiny 2 is a mess right now but it's still one of the best-feeling shooters ever, so I'm encouraged to hear it was a "guiding light" for The Outer Worlds 2 gunplay
News If you're gonna follow gunplay, follow Bungie's
"Silksong's price is Team Cherry being cool and giving their game away": Metroidvania devs wonder if $20 is unrealistic for their games after Silksong, but "can't afford" to go super low
News "What should we price it at now?"
Hollow Knight Silksong release live coverage – Steam and eShop outages, early hands-on impressions, and more
LIVE With the Hollow Knight Silksong release time now here, join us live as we all act completely normal about this massive launch
With a DRM-free version and a low $20 price tag, Silksong has won many pirates over: "This is a time where if we can afford to support them, we should"
News Nobody can resist a good deal
Hollow Knight: Silksong, a single-player 2D Metroidvania, became the biggest game on Twitch minutes after launch – at over 360k viewers, it beat giants like Dota 2 and GTA 5
News Silksong has breached containment and gone far beyond the usual indie circle
Steam and the Switch eShop are down, or at least struggling, the very second Hollow Knight: Silksong has launched, and you couldn't write better chaos
News Steam and potentially other digital stores seem to be taking a beating
Hollow Knight: Silksong is now live, and with no leaks or review codes everyone is playing it for the first time after waiting more than 6 years
News Hollow Knight: Silksong is out now on all platforms
Team Cherry had to go back to the drawing board for Hollow Knight: Silksong for one simple reason: "Hornet being taller changes everything"
News "Her fighting is so fast, and she's so competent, that it changes the way enemies need to be designed"
007 First Light Collector's Edition is $300, and there isn't enough nostalgia in the world to convince me that Golden Gun is worth it unless it literally transforms me into Christopher Lee
News Hitman dev IO Interactive serves up a lush but pricey James Bond Collector's Edition
Days before Silksong, speedrunner manages "perhaps one of, if not the grandest achievements in Hollow Knight history" with a 2 hour and 49 minute 112% world record
News That's every boss and key item in about 9% of my first playthrough time
Helldivers 2 CEO just comes out and says it: "The technical debt is crippling" and "we didn't hit the mark" with Into the Unjust update, so Arrowhead is "trying to get our s*** in order"
News Helldivers 2's new patch made a lot of technical issues a lot worse
Helldivers 2 players fume over performance issues, Arrowhead CEO admits "it's not good enough" but promises "a fix for some of the most immediate things is being prepped"
News Helldivers 2's new Into the Unjust update seems to have worsened some technical problems
A new Destiny 2 event is giving players bugged 8-year-old loot from content so deleted that Bungie literally could not come up with it to show in court
News Year 1 guns are suddenly dropping in Destiny 2's new Heavy Metal event
Call of Duty eases the grind with 20 free skips for the battle pass mess it created, but you only have 2 weeks to claim them
News I sure do love skipping Season 5 content
Team Cherry hoped Silksong could be anyone's "first Hollow Knight game," and one reason it took 7 years is they were "comfortable" not knowing what's gonna happen: "The really interesting things are the things you sort of discover along the way"
News "The difficulty also sits alongside the game in that way," Team Cherry said
After report on MMO's bot problem, players bait piles of "clankers" to their doom like they're poisoning AI: ask "how many" and armies of bots reply in eery unison
News Old School RuneScape remains a bot hive, but a few more bots got the axe
Ken Levine's new BioShock-like game Judas carries the torch of Monolith's Nemesis System: "They can bribe you, save you in battle, talk s*** about the other characters, and share with you their darkest secrets"
News Ken Levine is finally talking about Judas, and he is literally talking about BioShock
