Silksong Act 1 Impressions, Hell Is Us Review, Borderlands 4 Interview

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🗓️ 12 September 2025

⏱️ 112 minutes

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Summary

Hollow Knight: Silksong is finally available, and we've been playing the highly anticipated Metroidvania. In this week's episode of The Game Informer Show, we dive into our impressions of Silksong's first act (roughly the first eight hours until the Greymoor area) and boss fights. Beforehand, Marcus interviews Gearbox leads Graeme Timmins and Andrew Reiner (big disclaimer: Reiner was formerly EIC of Game Informer) about Borderlands 4, which was released a few days ago. Finally, we round out the show by breaking down our Hell is Us review, a fascinating investigation puzzle game with action elements. Notably, it's not a Soulslike.

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00:00 - Introduction
03:35 - Borderlands 4 Interview
50:32 - Hollow Knight: Silksong Act 1 Impressions
01:27:17 - Hell is Us Review
01:50:39 - Outro

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody, welcome back to the Game Informer Show, a weekly podcast covering the video game
0:11.9	industry. Join us every week for a discussion about the latest gaming news, reviews, and
0:16.7	exclusive reveals alongside Game Informer staff, and special guests from around the industry.
0:22.2	I'm one of your hosts today, Alex Van Aiken, and today I'm joined by Marcus Stewart.
0:27.7	How you doing, Marcus?
0:28.8	I'm doing well, ready to hunt some vaults.
0:32.5	Yeah, yeah, it's about that time now.
0:36.6	Borderlands 4, of the time that you are hearing this is out in the wild.
0:41.7	We've been playing it.
0:43.8	But before we get into that, Eric Van Allen.
0:46.8	How are you doing, Eric?
0:47.9	I'm ready to hunt some bugs, you know?
0:50.2	Yeah.
0:51.0	Hunter's Marsh.
0:52.7	Yes.
0:53.3	The evil, evil place of Hunter's March. Yeah, the hell season of games reviews is upon us. But it's a very exciting time. Some people look at it as Christmas, video game Christmas. We've got all the releases coming out this week. We've got Borderlands 4 out uh we've even played some silk song that dropped last
1:11.4	week and having a blast uh and this is a packed episode uh in just a moment we're gonna transition
1:18.2	marcus you sat down with some folks from the borderlands team didn't you to uh ask them some questions
1:23.1	about the game yeah i spoke with the uh creative director of the game, Graham Tim, so I believe you also spoke
1:29.2	to during our cover story coverage.
1:31.3	Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
1:33.1	And good old Andrew
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