Weeks after Silksong’s launch I can’t stop thinking about this streamer’s masterful troll campaign against its fans: ‘They made a whole game about getting to your car but you don’t have car keys, and you’re excited for that?’

I’ve spent a not-insignificant portion of my waking hours the last few weeks thinking (and writing) about Hollow Knight: Silksong, but I may have actually spent more time replaying a description of the game from streamer Northernlion in my head over and over again like a Nick at Nite rerun. While Silksong was the focal…

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‘There is a chance that they will stay in Roblox’: Gen Alpha is into PC gaming, but one industry analyst isn’t so sure they’re going to age out of their favorite haunt

The kids are playing computer games. According to the latest Global Games Market Report from the analysts at industry intelligence firm Newzoo, Gen Alpha—defined in this case as anyone born in or after 2010—makes up “an increasing share of the player base, especially on PC.” As a lifelong fan of computer games, this is good…

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The studio behind award-winning Umurangi Generation is reimagining Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness from the perspective of a penguin, and it’s brought the voice of Disco Elysium onboard to do it

In a new trailer at the Six One Indie Showcase, Origame Digital showed off its first trailer for Penguin Colony, a horror game where you play as a little penguin, and the studio revealed that the game will be anchored by a performance from Lenval Brown, the narrator of Disco Elysium: The Final Cut. We…

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‘You wouldn’t believe how much stupid s**t is in this giant world’: The Baby Steps devs want you to know as little as possible before you play their walking sim

Baby Steps developer Gabe Cuzzillo prefaced today’s “very unprofessional” developer overview by saying “you shouldn’t know very much about this game when you play it, because it’s full of surprises and they’re fun.” After watching it, I’m not sure I know any more about the comedic walking simulator, but I’m certainly intrigued by the vibe…

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What’s in your FPS rotation?

FOV 90 (Image credit: Future) Welcome to FOV 90, an FPS column from staff writer Morgan Park. Every week, I’ll be covering a topic relevant to first-person shooter enjoyers, spanning everything from multiplayer and singleplayer to the old and the new. I can’t think of a time when I was solely obsessed with a singular…

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9 months after its 1.0 launch flopped, an indie dev just learned that Steam never emailed the 130,000 people who wishlisted its game

Planet Centauri, a 2D sandbox game blending survival, creature collection, and automation elements, didn’t have the 1.0 launch it expected. Despite making over 100,000 sales and earning spots on more than 130,000 Steam users’ wishlists in over 10 years of early access, indie developer Permadeath watched as Planet Centauri’s full release day came—and the world…

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