In today’s Daily Fix:
Hollow Knight: Silksong is barely two weeks away, and gamers seem to be flooding back to the original in preparation. According to SteamDB, 2017’s Hollow Knight hit an all-time concurrent high with 23,840 players this week. While it’s not the most concurrents across all Steam games, it is a franchise peak. In other news, Donkey Kong Bananza’s somewhat controversial control scheme came at the suggestion of Donkey Kong creator Shigeru Miyamoto. Bananza’s game director, Kazuya Takahashi, revealed that it was Miyamoto’s idea, but they left the option to swap the ‘punch down’ and ‘jump’ buttons in case players had a hard time re-wiring their muscle memory. And finally, take to the skies with the cast of How to Train Your Dragon in Hiccup’s Wing Gliders at Universal Epic Universe.
Presented by Universal Orlando Resort and its new theme park, Universal Epic Universe.
