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“Horror” and “automation” are concepts I’m used to seeing together in fiery/weepy essays about late capitalism. I’m less used to seeing them together in videogame marketing blurbs. Horror, in an automation-based game? Why, games with automation are supposed to deliver the finest and most methodical of chemical highs. They are supposed to feel like building yourself a better brain out of candy-coloured conveyor belts and smelters. They are not supposed to make you afraid.
Star Trucker, Raw Fury’s answer to what Euro Truck Simulator might look like in the year 3000, is now a year old, and has celebrated that fact with an update that finally lets you whip out your wheel and pedals.
Ever since I gave it a go with a controller prior to letting my Game Pass subscription crumble into dust, this is a day I’ve yearned for. After all, what good are truck sims, be they Euro, American or something more Snowrunnery, if you’re not operating the controls of your great metal haulage beast by flicking flappy gearbox paddles, or sawing away at a circle clearly designed for something a bit sportier?
Well, who could have seen this coming: Hollow Knight: Silksong has taken Steam offline, or at least, laid waste to large swathes of it. Within seconds of its release this afternoon, Team Cherry’s Hollow Knight sequel brought Valve’s servers to a halt, cue endlessly loading pages when trying to access the checkout, browse the store or do much of anything.
Hollow Knight: Silksong has officially buzzed across the thin red line between “entirely hypothetical object of mass hysteria” and “existing videogame that you can play on your PC”. Team Cherry’s new metroidvania is live now on Steam and GOG. You can actually buy it with your actual money. Should you buy it? Sadly, I don’t yet have a Hollow Knight: Silksong review for you, because Team Cherry have decided not to distribute any codes in advance. If you’re reading a Silksong review right now, the reviewer is either a worryingly close confidant of the developers or a filthy bloody liar or some other, totally innocent third thing.
After rapidly declaring that they were looking into action the other day, Helldivers 2 developers Arrowhead have released a hotfix aiming to rectify some of the crashing that’s affected players diving Into the Unjust.
Unlike the giant worms I’ve still seen hide nor mandible of, it didn’t take the studio long to address reports of an uptick in technical issues for the shooter following the update’s arrival on Tuesday. Here’s hoping that these fixes’ll help keep thing a bit more stable.
Edmund McMillen and Tyler Glaiel’s funky cat breeder Mewgenics has meandered back into the kitchen and emitted the first in a series of informative meows that’ll build up to its release next year. McMillen has revealed that “all the big important bits” are now sorted, and to celebrate, has released a 50 minute-long video playthrough.
Mewgenics has been in development for a while, but efforts to finally have it emerge from the carrier have really begun to click into place this year. There have been a couple of trailers and the decision to push the release date back to February 10th, 2026, allowing Binding of Isaac developer McMillen and Glaiel more time to polish their strange fur baby.
Hitman hitmakers Io Interactive have just screened some extensive footage of their James Bond adaptation, 007: First Light, during Sony’s latest State of Play livestream. As you might expect, it looks and sounds a lot like Hitman, but the whole “James Bond” thing is a definite pace-changer. Catch the whole video below, plus a hasty, opinionated summary from me.
How are you feeling today? Relatively untroubled by visions of squirming, organic gunk clogging your vessel’s exhaust ports as you fall steadily toward an enormous ball of fire? We’ll see about that.
I’m here to tell you about Ultrasound, in which you are stranded aboard a spacecraft that has been colonised by growths of the Gigery persuasion. If you don’t purge critical systems pronto, you’re going to end up the wrong side of a photosphere. Here’s a trailer.
Right, where in the name of disposable infantry were you? Yes, I’m talking to you, Helldivers 2 hive lords, added into the shooter as part of yesterday’s Into the Unjust update with what looks like nary a patch note peep from Arrowhead. Why didn’t you unleash your big worminess on me when I dropped onto some Terminid hive worlds last night?
You missed out. I’m an easy target. Dressed head to toe in bright yellow Helldiver armour, because it’s always best to be highly visible on the battlefield. Armed with the trigger finger prowess of a sleeping librarian. Sometimes alone because no one’s answered my SOS beacon yet. I was right fugging there.
A company backed by the Saudi Arabian government’s Public Investment Fund have become the co-owner of the Evolution Championship Series (Evo) fighting game tournament.
Following Sony’s sale of their stake in Evo, with India-based esports company Nodwin gaming buying it up, the event’s co-owners have been Nodwin and talent management company RTS. Well, RTS have now been bought by Qiddiya Investment Company, a PIF-backed firm that’s also overseeing the building of Qiddiya City as part of Saudi ruler Mohammed bin Salman’s Vision 2030 initiative.
