Video games weekly: Silksong and Gamescom

Welcome to the weekly video games on Engadget. A new story is expected every Monday or Tuesday (or Wednesday, whatever), divided into two parts. The first is a space for short articles and retreating about Mee, Jess Conditt, a reporter who covered the industry for more than 13 years. The second contains video game stories last week you need to know, including some main titles from outside Engadget.

Please enjoy – and I will see you next week.

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On a planet shrouded in legend, in a land surrounded by tradition, on a mountain committed to mystery, in a cave strangled by the secrets, the legend sleeps. For six years, the legend grew while wild stories revolve around, widen and similar. New words and old words filled with advanced meanings were born: the believer. Severe. Silkpost. Thick lies have become so physical, spreading deception with a dead smile and smile.

For six years, the legend slept while the masses were wandering, all of whom were waiting for the signal to wake up and know the truth. They are all waiting for a ringing bell, finally and clarity, on Thursday, August 21, 2025.

Skong. Skong. Skong.

It is a special time in Silksong subreddit. After years of silence about the continuation, Faris Faris: SilksongCherry team Live broadcast is scheduled With a “special advertisement” about the game on August 21 at 10:30 am East time. This is not only a stroidvania fans everywhere, but this announcement can also represent the last moments of Silksong Subreddit as we know it. A strange cocktail was delayed the game, unprocessable updates, and excessive worship that focuses on the wonderful small universe in R/Silksong, with its bases, bad guys and heroes. It is the place where a common wig of clown and the shareholders have turned into unifying the art of playing roles. A Larpform, if you will. It is a place that made me laugh constantly every time I appeared in my summary during the past year or so.

Before the private announcement on Thursday, this branch witnesses another fragile manufacture of desperate myths and expected a hopeless before it turns into something else, armed with actual information about the video, and perhaps until the date of a fixed release. Or, I dare say that, sudden release. For a moment longer in R/Silksong, everything is possible.

Then it will end. Regardless of what happens during the live broadcast on Thursday, it will come today when Silksong The drip feeding is completely dried out of Silkposts. But at the present time, our face coating is ready. Sometimes, it is good to get to know the madness and the beauty of the moment, before it slips forever.

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News

News from on 2025

Gamescom 2025 began on Tuesday with the opening of Night Live, which is a GEOFF KeIGHLEY Hosting offer and people behind game prizes, and there were many cheerful players. The head of the Engadget UK Mat Smith office on the ground in Gamescom in Cologne, Germany, to play the next headlines and speak with the developers, but for the time being, here are our main addresses directly from Onl 2025:

And our addresses from Gamescom 2025 to date:

Gamescom 2025 until August 24.

Rog Xbox Ally Lands in October

Microsoft slowly creates its mobile age with news that Rog Xbox ALY and Rog Xbox ally X will be available on October 16. Wario64Best Buy recently included Xbox ally at $ 550 and Xbox ALY X at $ 900, and this is in line with our predictions, which were based on the prices of the current ROG ally. Besides the date of release, Microsoft announced Hand compatibilityIt is an initiative aimed at improving games for mobile devices and informing the players of the quality of their performance. The deck was mainly verified, but for portable portable Xbox, which is another sign that Microsoft’s portable games extend beyond only one devices factory.

It will cost PS5 more than it costs today

First Nintendo and Microsoft raised the prices of the latest keyboards, and now it’s the role of Sony. Sony announced on Wednesday the following price increases for the PS5 family:

• Standard PS5 with drive: $ 550, up from $ 500

• PS5 Digital Edition: $ 500, up from $ 450

• PS5 Pro: $ 750, an increase of $ 700

Sony blames the increases in a “difficult economic environment”, echoing feelings from its contemporaries. The high prices come simultaneously in generating devices when we are used to seeing keyboards become cheaper, which makes this entirety more frustrated.

Rod Ferguson is responsible for Bioshock again and is already making major changes

There were signs of turmoil in Bioshock 4 Studio cloud room for a while now, including news Earlier this month The game failed to review with 2K executives and a full narrative renewal was scheduled. Now, we see more repercussions. Prior war gears and Diablo Rug Virguson The left is a snowstorm To lead a development Bioshock 4 In Cloud Ramber, his appointment comes alongside the news that 80 people in the studio It is demobilized. This is in fact the second time that Ferguson joined the development of the Bioshock game in the last second – and likewise it has pounced on aspects and cut them Bioshock: Infinite In IRINALITY in 2012.

The race through hell development between Judah and Bioshock 4 Continues.

Blizzard Film and Sinking team is the union

Microsoft is the home of another video game. Workers with the Blizzard Entertainment team, which deals with the cinema in the game and the addresses process, including Overwatch and The world of boxesThis week voted on the union under the telecommunications workers in America. This covers about 169 developers and represents the fourth union effort from Microsoft Games, and joins quality assurance workers in Activisionand Zenimax and RAVEN program.

Steam censorship PayPal

PayPal is not a good way to buy games on Steam in some countries anymore. steam In July Hundreds of games are removed with adult topics and NSFW from the store interface, and updating their policies to ban “content that may violate the rules and standards” for their payment processors. This was incredibly mysterious and the effects Thousands of games from Itch.io. Now, it has been emphasized that Paypal has ended its partnership with Steam in multiple countries, which affects any sect.Unlike EUR, Cad, GBP, JPY, Aud and USD. “

Valve says he is under pressure by payment processors including Visa, MasterCard and PayPal to remove some games and implement late control policies, and this has already led to at least one game to be one game It was unjustly removed From the platform. That game, Dunaya: It was extractednow Available as experimental.

Robox It changes its rules after that, many children’s safety claims

Robox His system is stopped to share and display games created by users A wave of lawsuits Accusing developers of failing to protect the base of young users. All non -classified experiences, or games created by the user, will be restricted to the developer and anyone who actively working on it, instead of being available to anyone over 13 years old, is currently the case. This change and others, including a new system that discovers and tracking “violation scenes” on individual servers, will appear in the coming months.

The analog is delayed again N64 again

It is now decided in Q4 2025. 🙁

Additional reading

• Kris Holt’s Indie Roundup game

• More procedures from RPG, vampires: deny – blood lines 2 struggle to persuade a few hours after playing Written by Robert Sraz in Eurogamer