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Silksong modders beat Team Cherry at sadism, lay the groundwork for the quest to beat the whole game as naked Hornet: "Her kick damage is like, 1/5 of a default nail"
News Cloakless Crest Hornet challenge runs when?
When does difficulty become un-fun? Dev says their game has moments of "intentional bulls***" but the trick to difficulty is making the player feel it's their fault they failed
Features Interview | Baby Steps gives you full control over your own failures
"Steam rejected the build" at the finish line, the "last 3 months were intense crunch," and the story was finished 3 days before launch: How one dev scraped together a horror hit that "accidentally" sold 150,000 copies
News The story of Emissary Zero is fraught with surprises
My first must-watch anime for fall 2025 is also the highest-rated new season on Crunchyroll so far: one girl pummeling dudes into mush, and with better animation than I ever expected
News May I Ask for One Final Thing is an unmissable physical and ethical beatdown
Survive "a near-death studio experience," rally to make a hit game, and get laid off anyway: 10-year studio The Outsiders shut down by Dune: Awakening house Funcom
News Metal: Hellsinger dev The Outsiders shut down
"The very first video game champion" and co-founder of Interplay, pivotal in the history of Baldur's Gate and Fallout, opens GoFundMe for "aggressive" cancer – already raising over $50,000
News Rebecca Heineman crowdfunds essential healthcare not fully covered by insurance
Silksong player pops the hood, checks the gauges, and determines the best silk skill is one you get very early on: "This should surprise absolutely nobody"
News Thread Storm is the DPS king by a country mile
The first game from a tiny crew of Korean college kids has sold 500,000 copies on Steam in its first month, so now they're patching it like mad to keep up with hungry roguelike fans
News Shape of Dreams is an instant hit for a new dev and publisher Neowiz
Silksong is crushing Hollow Knight sales with 6 million downloads after 4 weeks, analyst reports – 4 million on Steam alone
News That is a lot of bench tax money
"We don't need a gacha system": Like a man boldly arguing fire burns, dev says gacha garbage is not fun and "getting rid of gacha" in their anime action RPG "is beneficial for developers too"
News Duet Night Abyss ditching gacha mechanics does bring some "concerns," but devs say it's worth it
The Borderlands 4 buff patch is here: Gearbox juices Amon and boosts "underperforming skills," says it's now targeting "unintended interactions" that "trivialize content"
The latest Borderlands 4 patch notes are filled with buffs for all, but especially Amon
Microsoft continues reading anything but the room with a full-page Xbox Game Pass advertisement on console startup a day after hiking prices by 50%
News The own goals keep coming
Monster Hunter Wilds fan artist who served pearls before swine thanks black hole hammer appreciators for their support after another great sword wins Capcom weapon design contest
News The mirror great sword is cool, but the black hole on a stick is cooler
Bungie brings in a new Destiny 2 global franchise director as its MMO bleeds – a Dragon Age, Starfield, and Elder Scrolls veteran who only just left Mass Effect 5
News Games vet Hilary Hidey joins Bungie ahead of Destiny 2: Renegades
Analysts say EA buyout "doesn't add up," expect the company to double down on live services and sports at expense of "new ideas and innovation" with layoffs looking inevitable
News "Short term they may look to sell off non-crucial assets and smaller IP"
"Insanely hard" Silksong true ending speedrun world record is somehow already under 4 hours: "We have to do the entire game with 5 masks and 2 needle upgrades"
News "I think, realistically, a 3:50 is pretty possible," says speedrunner BlueSR
Dune: Awakening dev Funcom released a very successful MMO, so of course it is laying off staff: "This difficult process is starting now, and we cannot yet determine the exact impact"
News Funcom says Dune: Awakening was "the biggest release" it's ever had
Resident Evil and Street Fighter veteran faces backlash after saying "please don't buy" Palworld, claiming Pocketpair "crossed a line that should not be crossed," and admitting he has not played Palworld
News Yoshiki Okamoto does not "want the world to become a place where this kind of thing is acceptable"
Want a ChatGPT response that takes 2 hours? CraftGPT is an AI made entirely in Minecraft by a legendary player who vanished for 3 years and then turned the most advanced redstone build I've ever seen into a 3-minute video
News Minecraft legend Sammyuri, who once built Minecraft in Minecraft, has done it again
EA tells employees worried about layoffs after $55 billion buyout that there will be "no immediate changes" to your jobs, and I think "immediate" is the key word here
News That doesn't sound like a no to me
Ghost of Yotei day one patch notes clock in at 883 words, Sucker Punch hopefully dodges the God of War: Ragnarok problem by limiting "puzzle clues in some difficulty levels"
News The Ghost of Yotei day one patch looks beefy
Gearbox pushes Borderlands 4 patch full of Vault Hunter buffs to Thursday to "tweak a few more things" and fit in "proper QA testing," Amon mains assemble a wishlist
News The big Borderlands 4 buff fest is still on for this week
The 25 best roguelike games to play right now
Best List Settle down for one more round of the best roguelikes 2025 has to offer
Team Cherry publishing boss advises concerned Silksong players to report scam ad spoiling the final boss and promising a magical world where you can download games without internet
News Turns out Silksong is not the next mobile hit
Solo dev spends 6 weeks making a short free game, accidentally wins the Steam algorithm and makes $4,200 in 5 days, then rushes to prepare a big update: "Seems the people liked my honesty and that I don't have any hidden costs"
News Idle Pixel Fantasy has done way better than its creator ever expected
