Erik Petrovich

I can finally talk about Outer Worlds 2!

Its really good!

It would be a top 5 of 2025 for me if it wasnt already such a stacked year. If you've been craving something like Fallout but with more humor and variety, it more than scratches the open world choice-driven RPG shooter itch.

With a little tuning for the later leveling brackets, Heroic World Tier could be the best thing added to WoW since... well I guess since Delves... which came in TWW...

...I've always loved the leveling journey in WoW, this makes it *so* much more engaging and rewarding. Its a lot like Classic, tbh.

Sad to hear about layoffs at Heart Machine. I feel like Hyper Light Breaker had a lot of potential but just never found the player base or gameplay loop it needed to pop off.

Just finished the true ending of Hades 2, after finishing Silksong's Act 3 and what's available for Deltarune rn. Rarely does a gamer get to experience three of their favorite pieces of media for the first time back to back like this, my gaming dopamine receptors are *fried* lmao.

Did not have Virtual Boy on NSO with required separate peripherals on my Nintendo Direct bingo card - what a world

These are calls for mass political violence, against all Democrats. They openly call for the bombing of "Democrat" cities and for the jailing or killing of Democratic politicians. They are from some of the most influential voices in right-wing politics. Will anyone say anything?

in a way aren't we all holding a barrel in the darkness

they should make silksong harder

Also, I'm gonna say it: the Last Judge runback isn't that bad.

After playing Expedition 33 and Deltarune this year, I didn't think Silksong would be able to break into my GOTY list. I knew it would be good, but I didn't think it could capture the magic of Hollow Knight again. BOY was I wrong. Unless something crazy happens, Silksong is my personal GOTY so far.

referring to metroidvanias as "hollowslop" to simultaneously piss off people who like metroidvanias, people who like hollow knight, people who want a better genre name for "metroidvania", people who are sick of the word slop being misused, and gradius fans who want to see more checkpoint recoveries

Legitimately feels like we're at the end of an era. No more "SKONG" comment chains in every indie game showcase, no more "SILKSONG TOMORROW" memes – Silksong *today*, Silksong in 39 minutes, even.

...Half-Life 3 when?

Four days until release! Hollow Knight: Silksong will be available on 4th September.

Release times:
7AM PT | 10AM ET | 4PM CEST | 11PM JST

Game price:
USD $19.99 | EUR €19.99 | JPY ¥2300

Everyone on Bluesky is poised like we're waiting for the DVD logo to hit the corner of the screen

"The Box Can Be Whatever We Want" Into the Unwell Dev Talks Influences, Dark Themes, & Studio Origins In a Game Rant interview, She Was Such A Good Horse co-founder Mårten Stockhaus explains the studio's origins and Into the Unwell's inspirations.

Had the chance to chat with Mårten Stockhaus, creative director of Into the Unwell and co-founder of She Was Such A Good Horse.

Check out my interview to learn about what influenced Into the Unwell, growing up in the Malmö game scene, and what the deal is with Pedro.

gamerant.com/into-the-unw...

I write a lot about miserable game development stories, so it sure was a pleasure to hear that one of the reasons Silksong took so long was that Team Cherry is having too much fun making it and didn't want to stop

Why ‘Silksong’ Took Seven Years to Make The highly anticipated indie game has been in production for so long that it’s become an internet meme

BREAKING: Silksong will be out on September 4. Two weeks from today. Really.

Often, games that take 7+ years to make are plagued by mismanagement and painful burnout. But for Silksong? Team Cherry was having a blast. They still are.

This is their story: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

literally impossible to tell what's going on with this anymore, just release it lol

YouTube video by Team Cherry Hollow Knight: Silksong - Special Announcement

Oh my god it's happening
youtu.be/6XGeJwsUP9c?...

YouTube video by Team Cherry Hollow Knight: Silksong - Special Announcement

Here we go. Silksong will have a "special announcement" on Thursday at 10:30am ET.

AND coming from me on Thursday, the story behind why Silksong took seven years to make...

Stay tuned! www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGe...

I was planning to wait to play Deltarune until it's done, but I couldn't wait any longer. This Toby Fox guy is a real jokester, huh?

Adolph Menzel (1815-1905), “Blind Man's Buff” (1867), gouache on paper, 22.7 x 29.4 cm.

we built orc city
(we built orc city)
on rocks
and
bones

Xbox Producer Criticized For AI Comments After Mass Layoffs A producer at Xbox Game Studios is criticized for comments that recommended AI tools to workers affected by recent layoffs across the gaming industry.

Just ghoulish and completely tone-deaf, in my humble opinion as a normal human being. Don't get me wrong, I think AI has its use cases, but there are countless better ways to seek emotional support than to turn to the soulless plagiarism machine.

gamerant.com/xbox-produce...

There has to be a better way than this. There has to be a better games industry than this happening to so many people, over and over and over. This isn't good enough.

An idea for the Everdark Tricephalos in Nightreign

> Starts as one gigantic new-model boss with nine heads

> Splits into three normal three-headed Gladius bosses

>Splits into nine smaller single-headed Gladius bosses

>Splits into 27 dogs from the Capra Demon fight

FromSoft, you know what to do

Donkey Kong Bananza Development Team Confirmed By Nintendo Nintendo reveals the development team behind Donkey Kong Bananza, confirming fan speculation since the game's reveal earlier this year.

Still left wondering who *exactly* is at the helm for DK Bananza, but hey, this puts the rumors to rest!

gamerant.com/donkey-kong-...

If you were too young in 2003 here is what Bush told the American people:

1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money
3) We won’t need a lot of troops
4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq
5) We’ll find WMDs
6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators
7) It will be easy
8) It won’t take long

All lies.

Update: @jusdberube.bsky.social has produced VIDEO of the Luigi world record spaghetti tub incident. This is easily the most unhinged thing I have watched this year

Nobody is rioting. Nobody is breaking any laws. These are cops in my city of Las Vegas just assaulting and arresting anyone on Fremont Street who looks at them. This is fascism.