Hollow Knight is no different—Hallownest makes that ant farm comparison almost literal, its bug-themed world expanded by industrious insects like Myla, the tragic miner bug who sings while she works. (You can read all about how Hollow Knight’s maps were created here.) Hollow Knight’s other co-director, designer Ari Gibson adds, “It’s a nice space to play in for us. Ari GibsonThe next of Hollow Knight’s free updates will be called Godmaster, though initially it was announced as ‘Gods and Glory’.

Treyarch has outlined some of the lessons it learned from the Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 beta, and detailed the changes it’ll make ahead of the next beta trial scheduled for September 10 on PlayStation 4. Interestingly, the post spent a lot of time dissecting Black Ops 4’s much maligned body armour. However, Treyarch added that while “annoying”, the issue wasn’t quite as troublesome as some players made it out to be. As player feedback “made it feel a lot worse than it actually was”, don’t expect

So that’s our PCG Q&A this weekend, where we ask both you and our team members: What’s your least favorite entry in an otherwise good series? Wes Fenlon: Max Payne 3Max Payne 3 is not a bad game. But I played the entirety of Max Payne 3 disappointed that it didn’t feel like Max Payne. Max Payne 1 and 2 are bleak and cynical but temper that darkness with pulpy dialogue and inner monologues. Rockstar’s writers totally missed the spirit of the first two games, turning Max Payne 3’s story into pure

Chucklefish has unveiled story-driven puzzle platformer, Inmost. Developed by Lithuanian studio Hidden Layer Games, Inmost follows three playable characters that share one “dark, interconnecting story”. Here, take a look at the announcement trailer:The pixel-art game—set in an old abandoned castle—will include traps, puzzles and enemy fights, complete with old secret passages. All three main characters will come with their own “unique gameplay styles”. Given Chucklefish’s previous form we’re hop

Dovetail Games wants to reel you in with an all-new Fishing Sim World teaser. The latest in gaming’s niche selection of sim titles , Fishing Sim World makes lofty promises that it’s “the most authentic fishing simulator ever made”. “Feel the adrenaline rush of landing trophy largemouth bass and the thrill of fighting huge carp and monster pike as Fishing Sim World perfectly combines realistic game physics and accurate fish AI for an authentic fishing experience that will have you hooked from the

Telltale has detailed how long we’ll have to wait in-between instalments of its latest episodic adventure, The Walking Dead: The Final Season . The two other instalments between episode one and the final chapter—cheerfully entitled Suffer the Children and Broken Toys—will release on September 25 and November 6 respectively. It took seven months for us to get from season one’s opening episode in April 2012 to the closing chapter in November 2012—an agonising wait for some, particularly given Tell

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds is bringing back “the days of Early Access” with a special event that strips PUBG back to its pre-alpha form. Early Access Memories, which is live now and will run until 7pm PST on August 19, 2018 (which is 3am on August 20, UK time), gives players the chance to play with old-school loot, rules, and a steaming heap of nostalgia, of course. The Early Access Memories Event Mode is now live! Four-person squads will drop into Erangel where Level 3 helmets will spawn in

Fanatical’s summer sale is now on, offering up to 86 per cent savings across thousands of new and classic games, including Doom , Alien Isolation , Yakuza 0 , and Monster Hunter: World . And if that isn’t enough to pique your interest, from now until 23:59 (UK time) on August 26, 2018, you can also save an extra 10 per cent on all listed prices by using the code SUMMER10. Here’s our pick of the very best deals going right now:For more, head on over to Fanatical.

But every time I play I’m just pleased as punch with my character, who I spent most of an hour creating before setting foot in the game. I don’t know if Mad Machines will be any good, but I could really go for more dumb ball hockey on the PC. I personally have plenty of time for long games, so it’s not an issue of my life being structured in a way that makes them bothersome. It’s just that few games (even really good ones) have the variety, imagination, and consistent power to surprise that make

Overwatch League has started off on a strong note, but there is still much work to be done so that other names can continue to be immortalized. “It’s been a labor of love all year,” says Jon Spector, Director of Franchises and Competition for Overwatch League. No rest for the wearyProper downtime was a massive pain point for most players, coaches, staff, and everyone involved in Overwatch League. “Our goal always has been to have the best players in the world playing in Overwatch League,” says S

Robot Cache, the blockchain-based digital distribution platform that will enable its users to resell their games and mine cryptocurrency that can be used to purchase new ones, announced today that it will go into an early access period in October. Signups to take part are now open, and anyone who registers prior to the early access kickoff will be added to the Robot Cache Founders’ Club, which provides special offers and unique rewards including a Founders’ Club profile badge. That is perhaps no

Bus Simulator 18 is a very niche sort of game, but it does what it does quite well—not perfectly, but good enough to make Andy Kelly sweat about blowing past a turnoff with a full load of tightly-wound commuters. And now it’s a little bigger and a little better thanks to the release of the first free mission pack on Steam. The update adds three all-new missions to the game, “presented by Max Klein,” although it doesn’t say (and I don’t know) who he is. There are also new “sub-tasks” related to b

The digital port of space 4X Exodus: Proxima Centauri releases today on Steam . Developer Offworld Games created this port of the board game, which came out back in 2012. In Exodus: Proxima Centauri players are leaders of a faction of remnant humans brought to a distant star system by powerful aliens after a devastating nuclear war drove them from Earth. With the Centaurians withdrawing, humans are now left to struggle for control of the Proxima Centauri star system. Among board gamers, Exodus i

Acer Predator is coming to PAX West! After you’ve played some games, watched a few panels, and explored the PAX show floor, head over to the Predator Gaming After Party at The Showbox on Friday, August 31 starting at 9 pm. You can get your hands-on the latest Predator gaming hardware powered by Intel, watch an epic musical performance by A-Trak, pick up exclusive swag, play games, and grab a few drinks. Hang out throughout the night for the Play like the Pro’s gaming competition, exciting giveaw

In spite of all this, Destiny 2 is dead to me, and Warframe is standing on its corpse looking cool with a samurai sword. I still dip in and play Destiny 2 crucible with friends every week or so, and I’ve done some grinding towards the new armour sets. I delete, delete, delete my way through mountains of guns just to get rid of the notification icon. I’m comparing Warframe and Destiny specifically because this is exactly how I used to play Destiny, and both games are aiming for a roughly similar

Ubisoft announced today that Dead Living Zombies, the third and final part of the Far Cry 5 season pass, will be out on August 28. The expansion will support solo or co-op play through missions set in military bases, farmlands, and “urban rooftops,” complete with narration provided by D-list film director Guy Marvel, who describes his latest cinematic venture in a new teaser as “Return of the Living Dead meets Bridges of Madison County.” Also: It’s Romeo and Juliet, but “set in a zombie-filled w

Burden of Command looks like a strategy wargame: Maybe Panzer General, maybe Hearts of Iron 3, or maybe something in between. They describe it as “Band of Brothers meets XCOM,” a blend of RPG and tactics that’s “infused with battlefield psychology, where every decision counts.” “Tactics really come alive when you factor in personal stories, skills and mindsets of your officers and soldiers.” “We aim to recreate the personal struggles of officers—their ‘burden of command’,” Pessache said. “So per

We would expect a similar timeline with Turing, though several purportedly leaked images of a GeForce RTX 2080 Ti SKU suggest otherwise. They show the retail packaging for GeForce RTX 2080 Ti cards from several of Nvidia’s hardware partners, including Gigabyte/Aorus, MSI, and Palit. So is releasing a GeForce RTX 2080 Ti with a whopping 24GB of GDDR6 memory, same as the Quadro RTX 6000. For what it’s worth, Videocardz is reporting the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti will have 4,352 CUDA cores, 11GB of GDDR5

However, you will only ever be able to refund items three times on one account. This means that if you refund three items today, you will never again be able to refund another item on that account, so choose wisely. How to refund an itemAfter deciding you want to refund an item you will need to boot up Fortnite and head to the settings menu, where there are multiple tabs for different options. This is pretty easy as all the items that are eligible for a refund will be shown in a big list. If you

Prior to the removal of its old Messages feature in May, Twitch enabled streamers to download archives of their messages before they were nuked into nothingness. As reported by Polygon, it didn’t go quite as planned, and some messages ended up going to the wrong people. “Due to a bug in the code that generated the message archive files, which has since been fixed, a small percentage of user messages were included in the wrong archives,” Twitch said in a statement. “The primary use case for Messa