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Silksong is shockingly cheap at just $20, but Team Cherry says it just tries to "price the games at a reasonable level for people," man
News So that's why Silksong is so cheap – that, and Hollow Knight money
After 4 years, Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail dev's mystery game seemingly revealed to be the open-world game Varsapura, in a trailer that screams Control so loud I'd bet Remedy heard it in Finland
news Varsapura looks to be the AAA open-world action-adventure game teased years ago
Ubisoft makes a big bet on "generative AI-driven gameplay" leading to "more interactive and engaging games," CEO says "this work reflects the direction we want to take"
News Ubisoft is integrating gen AI at all its studios and offices
Joining Valve's Gabe Newell at the altar of AI, Ubisoft CEO says the controversial tech will be "as big a revolution for our industry as the shift to 3D"
News Ubisoft is using generative AI "in all our studios and offices"
Arrowhead creative lead agrees with Helldivers 2 players, calls the game "a never-ending ping pong between 'it's so over' and 'we're so back,'" but says "we're trying to get better with each update"
News Johan Pilestedt tips his hat to the Helldivers 2 community's definition
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
