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During development, Hollow Knight devs kept costs low with leftover lunches at their tiny office, and then the game sold 15 million copies: “My dad would sometimes pop up and give me $20"
By Scott McCrae published
News 12 million of those copies were sold after Silksong was announced

Atari aims to be "best in the world at retro games," CEO says, which is why it's put its money into keeping brilliant retro studios like Nightdive and Digital Eclipse from having to worry about making payroll
By Dustin Bailey published
News But "the brand deserves to be something more" so it can plaster neon Atari signs on every building "like in Blade Runner"

Former Witcher 3 devs behind The Blood of Dawnwalker want the vampire RPG to set "a new standard" for the genre with a "hybrid" combat system influenced by Batman: Arkham Asylum, For Honor, and Kingdom Come: Deliverance
By Jordan Gerblick published
News One combat system was too hard and the other wasn't immersive enough, so Rebel Wolves combined the two

Indie devs' weirdly promising Bubsy 4D wouldn't exist if the clouds hadn't parted and blessed the Atari CEO with a revelation: "I was like, 'Is this a nationally known IP?'"
By Ashley Bardhan published
News I don't know, is it?

After 28 years as a legend among Mortal Kombat fans, "the holy grail of MK lost media" has been preserved and made playable for Legacy Kollection
By Dustin Bailey published
News The WaveNet version of Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 finally lives

The Blood of Dawnwalker lead says the new vampire RPG is a "more immersive game" with consequences – not like others where "you can do whatever you want for 80 hours and nothing happens"
By Anna Koselke published
News This is no Skyrim

I'm relieved to see the Disco Elysium successor is just as strange and dark – I've had my fill of fantasy RPGs for the year
By Jasmine Gould-Wilson published
Opinion Opinion | There's more to RPGs than high fantasy – who knew?

Silksong devs tempt fate, tease "ambitious" DLC plans to add content to the long-awaited Metroidvania: "Hopefully we can achieve some of it"
By Kaan Serin published
News Skongmania is far from over
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