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Silksong's first area was only added after Team Cherry realized it needed a softer intro: "We're trying to be kind of respectful to the player. We're not trying to baby them"
News But not too soft
"I'm definitely in the camp of not having an easy mode": As Silksong crushes players and Team Cherry nerfs it, veteran designer says some games have to be difficult because that's the whole point
News Baby Steps co-developer Gabe Cuzzillo reckons challenge can be inseparable
Nvidia buys $5 billion worth of Intel stock and announces major partnership for "multiple generations" of hardware covering consumers, AI, and data centers: "Fusing the world's best CPU and GPU"
News "AI is powering a new industrial revolution," says Nvidia CEO Jensen Huan
"On Steam alone, I probably have 3,000 hours": Nobody loves Vampire Survivors more than its creator, who once thought nobody would play it "for more than two hours" and ironically says short games rule
News "The movie ticket comparison" can be a useful "price to gameplay" gut check
Right after Silksong, a day before Borderlands 4, and just ahead of Hades 2, a new dev's co-op roguelike threaded the needle to become a top 10 seller on Steam with 100k copies sold in a day
News Shape of Dreams from Lies of P publisher Neowiz is a hit
Escape from Tarkov dev has outdone itself, telling players to buy the whole game again if they want it on Steam after 9 years leading to 1.0: "There are no excuses"
News "A final f*** off to the fans," some players reckon
I was kidnapped in Act 1 of Hollow Knight: Silksong, and I never thought Team Cherry would borrow Bloodborne's nastiest trick
Features What The Slab tells us about Silksong star Hornet
Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford claims "less than one percent of one percent" of Borderlands 4 PC players reported "valid performance issues" via customer support, says "I have personally helped users go from 30FPS to 90FPS+"
News Surely this will calm everyone down
Team Cherry accidentally left a mouse cursor on-screen in a Silksong cutscene, earning its very own Game of Thrones coffee cup moment
News How does this affect Pharloom's legacy?
"Seth's soul lives on in a video game": A Silksong boss kicking butts in the endgame was designed by a young Hollow Knight fan 6 years ago before he died of cancer
News "We made it Seth"
"I felt like playing 30 hours of story mode was actually the tutorial": Too many RPGs and JRPGs end after their combat really gets good, Vampire Survivors creator says, which is where the roguelike formula is so great
News "I mean, it comes from someone who made Vampire Survivors. Of course I think it's the natural course of a game."
"I see a lot of publishers I don't like": Vampire Survivors creator made his own publisher to "share the luck" and says too many companies "try to exploit the platforms just to make money"
News "I definitely see the publishing business more from the point of view of making games"
Activision doubles down on Call of Duty skins problem, makes Black Ops 7 skins less goofy "after receiving community feedback specifically related to the Black Ops 7 Vault Edition"
News Three exclusive Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 skins are getting changed
Balatro creator says "I'm slow" and "I am sorry" and update 1.1 is not coming this year for good reason: "The prospect of rushing the work and going back into crunch mode to get it out this year just felt terrible"
News Balatro update 1.1 is now on the timeline of "it's done when it's done"
Square Enix reveals another classic JRPG getting a remake: Dragon Quest 7 Reimagined announced, coming February 2026 to consoles and PC
News Surprise, the Dragon Quest 7 remake is real
It isn't a sequel to the best Mario game, but Nintendo announced Yoshi and the Mysterious Book for Switch 2 and it looks pretty good
News The Switch 2 is finally a real Nintendo console now that it's getting a Yoshi game
Borderlands 4 Steam reviews start at 41% positive as early players report performance issues and crashes: “Randy I sold my car for this”
News Some people aren't having any problems, but a good chunk of early buyers say they've had issues
"When I explained to her that everyone at Zeke was a real player who came to pay their respects, she burst out in tears": Parents of late baby son overwhelmed by huge in-game MMO tribute
News Old School RuneScape players give humanity a much-needed win
Valve billionaire Gabe Newell says "people talk s*** at me in chat, and about once a week people say, hey noob, uninstall the game" but "that's really about their enthusiasm" so he still plays Dota 2 "every day"
News Even Gabe Newell isn't immune to being flamed in MOBAs
Team Cherry decided an early Silksong boss wants a nerf, so of course players are debating if it actually needs one while also claiming their 'I beat it pre-nerf' trophies
News I think I've heard this song before
Hundreds of MMO players show up to support a father mourning his infant son, who shares a name with an NPC in Old School RuneScape: "We have such an incredible community with the biggest hearts"
News "So nice seeing people plant flowers for him"
Elden Ring Nightreign's Deep of Night mode is out today, and it's "high-difficulty" even by FromSoftware standards: new red-tier gear, 3 more relic slots, and uber-buffed enemies
News Deep of Night also has an endless mode for the true sickos
Elden Ring Nightreign just got its biggest patch ever, and it's probably the most generous batch of buffs FromSoftware has ever given – even if the community's favorite OP legendaries got wrecked
News Basically every Nightfarer got a buff, and so did a ton of relics
