Everyone’s heading back to Hollow Knight for one last go before Silksong comes out—the game’s all-time Steam peak is rising as I write this headline

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Are you ready for Hollow Knight: Silksong? Well, by my count, about 22,941 players are desperate for another fix of Team Cherry’s work, a number that’ll continue to rise over the intervening minutes of me sitting down and writing this article. Per SteamDB, Hollow Knight: Silksong’s release date of September 4 has driven swarms of … Read more

Amid sweeping changes, it’s refreshing to see that the Battlefield 6 beta was an actual playtest, and not a glorified demo

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Rory Norris, Guides Writer (Image credit: Future) Last week I was: playing way too much of the Battlefield 6 open beta. This week I’ve been: slogging my way through the Road to Battlefield event in Battlefield 2042, remembering why it’s my least favourite game in the series. The most significant difference between most playtests I’ve … Read more

By surrendering to an ‘open weapons’ default, Battlefield 6 is giving up the most special thing about Battlefield

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Almost a week removed from the Battlefield 6 beta, I wouldn’t blame you for being tired of hearing about weapons being open or closed. On its face, the debate appears moot as Battlefield Studios keeps saying it will support both rulesets in BF6 regardless of their popularity. New players coming over from Call of Duty … Read more

Marvel Rivals dev’s transparent, 18-minute breakdown of how ranked isn’t rigged fails to placate players who hate losing

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To prove to the growing number of players who think Marvel Rivals’ ranked mode is rigged or somehow unfair, the official X account dropped a video that reveals a surprising amount of detail about why that’s totes not the case. Lead combat designer Zhiyong spends a packed 18 minutes explaining the math that determines how … Read more

‘I think the United States should be given 10% of Intel’: US president Trump wants a piece of the action, says CEO Lip Bu Tan has already forked over $10 billion because he wants to ‘keep his job’

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US president Donald Trump says Intel should give the US government a 10% stake in the company, echoing a recent statement made by US commerce secretary Howard Lutnick, who said earlier this week that the US government should get an equity stake in Intel in exchange for CHIPS Act funding. Trump had actually called for … Read more