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Atari launched its own Metroidvania on the same day as Silksong, but it’s only hit 12 concurrent players on Steam

Atari launched its own Metroidvania on the same day as Silksong, but it’s only hit 12 concurrent players on Steam

Atari’s decision to release its own Metroidvania game on the same day as Hollow Knight: Silksong appears to have seriously harmed its initial momentum. Adventure of Samsara is a modern reboot of Adventure, the 1980 action-adventure title credited as one of the most influential games of all time. The game, which is developed by Brazilian studio Ilex Games and published …

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Oblivion Remastered Drops To Mixed Review Status On Steam

Oblivion Remastered Drops To Mixed Review Status On Steam

When The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion got its fancy new remaster earlier this year, fans of Bethesda’s open-world RPGs, myself included, were elated at the return of this vintage classic. Sadly, the enthusiasm wasn’t made to last. As seems befitting of its origins as a Bethesda-developed game, Oblivion Remastered is plagued by bugs and crashes on PC, especially following its …

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Hollow Knight: Silksong is breaking Steam, Nintendo’s eShop

Hollow Knight: Silksong is breaking Steam, Nintendo’s eShop

An influx of players excited for this morning’s launch of Hollow Knight: Silksong are encountering widespread errors purchasing and downloading the game from Steam this morning. Ars Technica writers have encountered errors getting store pages to load, adding the game to an online shopping cart, and checking out once the game is part of the cart. That aligns with widespread …

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Silksong’s release is hammering Steam, Xbox, PlayStation, and Nintendo stores

Silksong’s release is hammering Steam, Xbox, PlayStation, and Nintendo stores

Hollow Knight: Silksong launched today, and immediately afterward the major video game storefronts were struggling to stay online. Shortly after Silksong’s 10 AM ET release time, Steam, the Nintendo eShop, Xbox, and PlayStation stores all displayed error messages or failed to load entirely. The hype for Silksong has also been a boon to the original Hollow Knight. In the days …

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Silksong fans have brought down the eShop, Steam and Xbox Store

Silksong fans have brought down the eShop, Steam and Xbox Store

Hollow Knight: Silksong is officially available for purchase, after six long years of waiting. The anticipation is at a fever pitch. Fans have swarmed to Steam to purchase the game and, well, it looks like they overloaded the system and shut it down. The same thing seems to be happening to the Nintendo eShop and the Xbox Store. Multiple social …

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No Man’s Sky boss “so happy” as sim celebrates highest Steam player count since launch and fans go wild with new ship customisation

No Man’s Sky boss “so happy” as sim celebrates highest Steam player count since launch and fans go wild with new ship customisation

We’ve all heard the No Man’s Sky story by now: controversial launch followed by, as commenters often put it, the greatest redemption arc in the history of gaming. Somewhat remarkably, developer Hello Games’ exploratory space sim has now received almost forty major updates since its launch in 2016, all helping No Man’s Sky turn its initial “Overwhelmingly Negative” rating …

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‘Escape From Tarkov’ Coming To Steam Imminently

‘Escape From Tarkov’ Coming To Steam Imminently

Tarkov is coming to Steam Credit: Battlestate Games / Mike Stubbs Escape From Tarkov is finally set to come to Steam in the coming weeks, with a new tease from developers Battlestate Games giving us a first look at the Tarkov Steam page. As we head towards the full launch of Escape From Tarkov, the development team is starting to …

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