Ask me what I’m thinking about, at a random moment any hour of the day. There’s a good chance that however you time it, the answer will be either Roma youth academy players, Goncalo Ramos’ egregious salary demands, or that time Maurizio Sarri bodied me in a press conference following our Derby della Capitale. By rights this should not be the case.
Including the implementation of a fan mod.
Team Cherry has announced a new update for Hollow Knight: Silksong, and while it’s already available for Steam users, it’s been submitted for approval on console and will be available very soon.
Primarily, the update addresses the Chinese translation issues present in the game by implementing a fan mod from Team Cart Fix. Team Cherry praises the team’s work, stating that the individuals involved “are well-versed in the (quite dense) narrative and lore of both Hollow Knight games, and understand the subtle links and connections that should be retained in the text”
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Arc Raiders has had another bumper weekend, once again breaking its own concurrent record on Steam.
Within a day of its release, Embark Studio’s new extraction shooter hit a Steam concurrent peak player count of 264,673, making it one of the biggest extraction shooters ever on Valve’s platform. And now it’s topped even that record over the weekend, hitting a concurrent peak of 462,488 players according to Valve’s official figures.
Yesterday, November 9, Arc Raiders had a higher concurrent peak than Battlefield 6 (441,035), and placed behind only the eternally popular Counter-Strike 2, Dota 2, and PUBG. Of course, Arc Raiders’ true concurrent player peak will be higher, given the game is also available on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X and S, but neither Sony nor Microsoft make their player numbers public.
As Arc Raiders tears up Steam’s most-played games list, streamer Shroud has continued to call on his fans to vote for it as Game of the Year 2025 over Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, calling multiplayer gamers “the minority” (even though research shows that it’s mostly multiplayer games that retain high player counts).
“I thought I was only going to play five or six hours of Arc Raiders on launch day before sitting down to write this initial review in progress, but after just a handful of matches, I suddenly couldn’t pull myself away – and before I realized it, I’d been playing for 10 hours,” we wrote in IGN’s Arc Raiders review-in-progress.
“This is without question the most hooked I’ve found myself on an extraction shooter (and I’ve played a lot of them), with clean and tense gunplay, a progression system that’s been incredibly satisfying so far, and a loot game that has me sweating over what to put in my backpack and what to leave behind.”
Vikki Blake is a reporter for IGN, as well as a critic, columnist, and consultant with 15+ years experience working with some of the world’s biggest gaming sites and publications. She’s also a Guardian, Spartan, Silent Hillian, Legend, and perpetually High Chaos. Find her at BlueSky.
Elden Ring Nightreign developers FromSoftware are planning to release some DLC for the action RPG by March 2026. That’s according the latest financial report of FromSoft parent company Kadokawa, which has attached a window to the add-on Nightreign‘s promo material had already hinted would be in the pipeline.
Call out to the people who’re deep in the night of Nightreign’s last addition so they hear. Tell them to scrabble around for a light switch so they can read the info. Remind them not to accidentally fondle a big boss as they paw along the walls. Actually, I’m sure they’ll remember that anyway, since it’s s-oh no.
November goes on. The cavalcade of belles, brutes and barons that is Videogaming continues its push through the midnight forest. Spiderwebs wrap the axles of the gala coaches in which the optimates of Ubisoft, Microsoft and EA drink from lavender flutes, turning their bloodshot eyes from the QA staff powering their barrows through the ruck. The faces of the common developers are a moth-eaten ribbon of quiet striving and terrible hope. The guards form a torchlit embroidery. Every so often, a torch goes out, and the wych elms generate new fruits. The stones in the road cant against our strides. The skulls of live service games burst beneath our wheels, and the analysts in the pageant wagons moan that the future lies behind us now.
Get it while you can!
If you’ve been keeping an eye out for the SNES controller for Nintendo Switch Online, your time has come, friend.
Yes, the iconic controller is now back in stock via the UK ‘My Nintendo Store’ for £26.99. You’ll need to ensure you’re logged in before you add it to your basket (and be subscribed to NSO), and orders are limited to four per customer (which, to be honest, is pretty generous).
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Find out if the Switch game you want to play is compatible.
Since the launch of the Switch 2 in June, Nintendo has released game upgrades, updates, and system firmware patches to make more games compatible with its new hybrid system.
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Mlem!
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie officially launches on 3rd April 2026, and Nintendo will be keen to ensure its marketing is on top form for the upcoming sequel. This will no doubt include keeping certain characters under wraps until the opportune moment.
Well… sadly, it seems someone’s let the cat out of the bag a little bit too soon… or should that be the Yoshi out of the bag?
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Metroid shred.
The cultural consciousness loves the ‘Akira Slide’; a single moment in the 1988 anime movie Akira where Shōtarō Kaneda, following a bike race, skids across the tarmac to slow himself down, facing the screen, his bike side-on, trails of smoke billowing up from the road. Of course, he could use his brakes, but it wouldn’t be as flashy now, would it? Distributors Toho knew what they were doing when they slapped Kaneda and the bike on the movie poster.
Even if you’ve never seen the movie, you’ve almost definitely seen the physics-defying Akira Slide. 37 years later, TV showrunners, animators, and directors can’t get enough of that effortless skid. It’s featured in everything from Batman: The Animated Series to Adventure Time to Jordan Peele’s 2022 sci-fi horror Nope to even adorable shows like Doraemon and the Pokémon anime.
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Give Chun-Li and Ken a new look.
Following the arrival of Chun-Li in the SNK title Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves earlier this week, Capcom has released some free “special EX” colours for the same character (and the previous CotW DLC character, Ken) in Street Fighter 6.
This will change the colours of Outfit 1 on both characters. You can redeem these colours from the game’s ‘News’ section in the ‘Notices’ menu and no code input is required. Here’s a look:
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