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Compared to Hollow Knight, Silksong "reworked how the bosses pick their attacks," and suddenly I realize why I got crushed so often
News Silksong is a different animal under the hood
Team Cherry hopes "if there were ever" new Hollow Knight games after Silksong, they could "just exist alongside one another" so the order you play them doesn't matter
News Ari Gibson and William Pellen ponder a hypothetical Hollow Knight 3
MMO players get a sailing skill, immediately become pirates channeling a famous 2006 disaster: "Piracy as emergent gameplay is honestly perfect"
News Old School RuneScape also added pirates, it turns out
Arc Raiders players were already grumbling, and after another patch of nerfs a fierce debate brews: crafting UI is definitely a mess, but should the stash actually get buffed?
News If you need me, I'll be organizing my bandage collection
Microsoft shares study of gamers that reckons a whopping 79% are "open to help from AI," but let's all stop to consider the sample size: 1,500 people
News Xbox-published Culture of Play report also finds most people think gaming is getting better
I tried an Arc Raiders community tip for hunting blueprints after 40 hours of next to nothing, and I found my most-wanted blueprint almost immediately
Feature That's one Wolfpack blueprint into the pocket
"When I was growing up, games were designed to be fun, not manipulative": Path of Exile co-creator shines a blacklight on the "bulls**t" design tricks infesting all my live service games
News Chris Wilson interrogates the "Dark Patterns" of modern game design
MMO players are unstoppable: Handed a new skill after 19 years, Old School RuneScape fans instantly force the devs to hotfix a Sailing XP flood over "Daddy's Special Water's special water"
News Old School RuneScape Sailing release sees predictable early XP exploit
"Gen Z loves AI slop," says former Square Enix exec, which means that Arc Raiders' controversial AI usage is just "the tip of the spear"
News "Activision isn't shying away from AI, neither is ARC Raiders," reckons Jacob Navok
"Hytale is saved": Riot sells Hytale back to Hypixel founders, who promise 10 years of support, an early access date soon, and a return to the "original vision"
News Hytale is back, again
Dispatch dev says "there was no glitch" causing a bad ending, it's just you
News AdHoc explains concerns of bugged episodes
Lore hero condenses all of Silksong, including a cut ending, into a lightweight 77 minutes: "THE SACRED TEXTS ARE HERE"
News Bring some popcorn
Elden Ring Nightreign "performed well beyond initial expectations," FromSoftware parent company says, and DLC could take it even further
News Elden Ring Nightreign bodes well for The Duskbloods
Genshin Impact dev seemingly ditching anime art to take on the MMO money pit with a new game called Genesis packing an open world, PvP, and a whole load of AI
News The latest HoYoverse game is apparently a big MMO made in Unreal Engine 5
Steam expert hails PC gaming "golden age" of rough-but-fun games that devs can make quickly and players love, from Peak to Megabonk: "Steam players want fun first"
News Lethal Company, RV There Yet, Slots & Daggers, Cloverpit, the list goes on
Mass layoffs hit Square Enix hours after it shares plans to have AI handle "70%" of its quality assurance and debugging soon
News Square Enix also revealed plans to shift development to Japan
Analysis of 260,000 Silksong Steam reviews shows what players love and hate about Team Cherry’s brutal sequel: 2 damage, long runbacks, and... Elden Ring?
News Bosses, difficulty, and other top trends among Hollow Knight: Silksong Steam reviews
Helldivers 2 lead says "our features would be considered ready and implemented in the release build at the very last minute," so Arrowhead wants to "stop that" with the game cracking
News That could explain some of the recent issues
Another roguelike success story has hit Steam: D&D flavored slot machine Slots & Daggers sells 100,000 copies in 10 days, "a surreal number for a solo dev like me"
News Behold, a fantasy RPG where you cast gambling
In defiance of god and Team Cherry, players mod the Knight from Hollow Knight into Silksong: "Most bosses are pretty easy it turns out"
News It's him, the Hollow Knight
Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 boss hands The Outer Worlds 2 a "7/10," hopes Obsidian spends "all of Microsoft's money" on RPGs more like Fallout New Vegas and, also, like Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2
News "I would bet that budget for KCD2 was WAY LOWER than Outer Worlds 2"
Remembering its MMO has an expansion out soon, Bungie addresses Destiny 2's missing roadmap as player counts hit a new low on Steam
News Third-party tools suggest Destiny 2 is down across the board as well
Pokemon Legends Z-A speedrunners are all using the same one Pokemon: a free, heroic Heracross named Bois
News All hail bois
