I still remember telling everyone I’d mastered Hollow Knight. Then Hollow Knight: Silksong came along in 2025, and by 2026 it has officially become my favorite kind of humiliation. This game is a thrilling follow-up to the indie smash, but it is also a much tougher evolution of the formula. Even if you breezed through the first game without many issues, you will likely find yourself stuck...

Hornet’s quest to carry more silk in Hollow Knight: Silksong is less about needlework and more about hoovering up every shiny Spool Fragment hidden across Pharloom. There are 18 of these little upgrades, and grabbing all of them isn’t just satisfying for pack rats—it unlocks the Extended achievement. Players who ignore them will spend the late game with a very modest silk...

Patch 1.06.00 introduced the Sigil of Valor, a dog-exclusive accessory that lets your canine pets join combat by attacking enemies. The best part: your pet cannot be killed during these fights, so you can enjoy the extra help without worrying about losing a companion. How to Obtain the Sigil of Valor To purchase the Sigil of Valor, you first need access to Pororin Village. This area becomes...

Deep within the forgotten bowels of Pharloom, where light fears to tread and silence reigns supreme, a dark secret slumbered. Hornet had heard whispers—fragmented tales spun by frightened bugs—of a creature so dangerous it was locked away beyond the reach of even the most zealous jailers. They called it the First Sinner. Few had ever seen its prison, and fewer still had returned to...

He had been refreshing the classifieds for months. Sam, a thirty-something gearhead from Austin, wanted a V8. A real one. He wanted the rumble, the stance, the theatre of roaring past a Prius as if it were standing still. The problem was the budget. The first golden age of muscle cars—those chrome-bumpered icons of the late sixties—now sat behind museum ropes or six-figure auction...