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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
A gacha RPG is cutting all the gacha garbage so it can just be a better game: "We're completely removing all character and weapon banners"
news Duet Night Abyss is now just A Game, coming to PC and mobile
Gears of War: Reloaded hammered in Steam reviews for missing splitscreen co-op and Microsoft accounts seemingly crashing everyone's fun, including mine
News Gears of War: Reloaded sits at 49% positive Steam user reviews
2 years in, Bethesda answers player hopes and says it's improving Starfield space travel: "Part of the team has been focused on space gameplay to make the travels there more rewarding"
News Other upcoming additions include new features, game systems, and story DLC
"Earth-sized" survival game Light No Fire has "real oceans to traverse, needing large boats and crews," says Hello Games boss Sean Murray: "Much of the technology we're introducing" for No Man's Sky is "shared with our next game"
News No Man's Sky update Voyagers is also a ship-sized teaser for Light No Fire
Activision owns up to ugly Call of Duty skins, reverses course on Black Ops 6 skins transferring and promises "authentic" skins for Black Ops 7 – a game that is already selling cyborgs and murder robots
News "Black Ops 7 needs to feel authentic to Call of Duty and its setting"
Obsidian is not screwing around with The Outer Worlds 2's Fallout New Vegas comparisons: "The critical path is maybe 10 or 15% of the total content"
News With the first game, Obsidian was quick to stress "this isn't New Vegas in space"
31 years later, XCOM creator Julian Gollop says strategy games are still "where my heart lies" and he wants to make them "more accessible and immersive" – his latest attempt is out today with co-op and Pikmin vibes
News Chip 'n Clawz vs. The Brainoids is out on PS5, Xbox, and PC today
Paying Valve $108,000 just to be on Steam is "totally worth it," says dev of roguelike strategy game made in 10 months which has now earned over $360,000
News Gnomes is exactly what it sounds like: a game about gnomes
