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Linn Grant made history by becoming the first female player to win an event on the European tour.

Fans have been waiting years for more about Hollow Knight: Silksong, and with the 2022 Xbox Showcase, we finally learned some new information about the game.

Jeppe Carlsen’s new game has a distinctly different vibe than his previous releases. As the lead gameplay designer of Limbo and Inside, Carlsen is known for building spooky side-scrollers with morbid visuals, but his latest original project features a bug-like explorer in a mysterious, neon-speckled planet system. 

The main character resembles an anthropomorphic firefly as it picks up orbs and uses them to traverse the environment, leaping among worlds and exploring ancient alien technology. 

“Each world exists within an orb that you can carry on your back,” Cocoon‘s description reads. “Wrap your head around the core mechanic of leaping between worlds — and combine, manipulate, and rearrange them to solve intricate puzzles.”

It’s not all light and airy, though — Cocoon features a large, overwhelming world and plenty of shadowy areas, much like Limbo and Inside.

Cocoon is due to hit Xbox One, Xbox Series X and S, Game Pass, Steam and Switch in the first half of 2023. It’s published by Annapurna Interactive and in development at Carlsen’s studio, Geometric Interactive.

If you’re looking to fight ants, scale fences, zip wire across grass and wear questionable helmets, Grounded is finally out of Game Preview and coming to Xbox Game Pass this September. 

Obsidian Entertainment’s first-person survival game is adding new bosses (including a giant mantis), the freedom to roam the entire backyard — please remember you’ve been shrunk — expansive armor customization options, base defenses and more biomes to discover.

The main upgrade from the preview will be a full story campaign, which appears to include creepy robots, lasers and ’90s era computer interfaces. 

And if you don’t like bugs, you might want to skip this one.

The former “Reading Rainbow” host said banned books are “where the good stuff is.”