Silksong devs felt they didn’t ‘have a lot of control’ over its release date and sympathize with all the games that were delayed to avoid it: ‘To some extent that probably is unfortunate’

In retrospect, it was probably a good idea for some developers to delay their games as far away from Hollow Knight: Silksong’s release date as possible. Steam fell apart the moment it came out, preventing people from buying it for the first few hours. And even if you survived the initial blast, you’d be lucky…

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Revived survival RPG Hytale already has a release date after springing back to life, but the owner is reminding everyone the game ‘isn’t good yet’

Hytale has had a rough go of it, but things are finally looking up. It looked like curtains when Riot canceled the game after seven turbulent years in development, but earlier this month the original owner bought the game back in hopes of realizing the “original vision” that predates Riot’s involvement. Developer Hypixel has been…

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I freed myself from my organizational sins by simply sticking my desk clutter where I don’t have to see it, and you can do the same with this $9 Black Friday deal on nano tape

Rather than using chemical adhesives, nano tape sticks things together using the physics of its microscopically-textured surface. Snip off a piece or two, and you’ve got a great non-permanent mounting solution for whatever cabling sins you might want to hide beneath your desktop. Key specs: Double-sided | 2 rolls | 0.94 in. x 10 ftView…

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Warframe’s next big, WWI-inspired story update happened because a developer wrote the words ‘Trench Warframe’ on a whiteboard

Warframe’s next major update, The Old Peace, is a doozy. When it releases on Wednesday, December 10, it’ll be the first time Warframe players get a firsthand look at the Tau system that’s been mythologized by more than a decade of in-game storytelling, witnessed as their characters relive induced war flashbacks from a forgotten, failed…

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In a major plot twist, Intel could soon be making chips for Apple once again, only this time, it’ll be the Arm-based M-series

Well, now this is unexpected. Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has just revealed that Intel is expected to begin shipping Apple’s M-series processors in 2027. This would mark a huge comeback of the partnership between the two companies, which Apple started to move away from in 2020. Intel used to make chips for Apple, well, Apple used…

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GOG says it’s ‘proud to give Horses a home’ after the horror game was rejected by Steam, but commenters won’t let it forget the time it rejected another horror game

Horror adventure game Horses was rejected by Steam after it was submitted in 2023 for, as the storefront put it, “content that appears, in our judgment, to depict sexual conduct involving a minor.” Developer Santa Ragione has argued that the scene in question was not sexual and that it has since been changed to feature…

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Garry’s mod successor s&box goes open source and even opens up the finances, Garry says: ‘Valve gave me my chance, I’m already rich, I don’t want to f*ck anyone over’

Facepunch Studios has announced that s&box, the long-in-development successor to Garry’s mod, is now open source. “We’re awesome,” says studio founder Garry Newman, which we’ll nod through because they kind of are. “S&box code is on GitHub now (Valve’s code is still closed source, we’re not open sourcing that).” s&box has been made open source…

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Darktide’s new Hive Scum class can transform into a nigh-on immortal John Wick with infinite bullets—it’s no wonder Fatshark’s nerfed it before release

“Why do those guns just look like normal earth glocks?” Our Senior Editor, Robin says, as I show him a video of me blasting enemies with my Hive Scum’s ‘Dual Stub Pistols’. They might not look like the most 40k weapons ever, but they do play to a particular fantasy, i.e. I am John Wick,…

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