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Sony has released a new PlayStation Family App on iOS and Android, giving you more – and more immediate – control over a number of aspects of your child’s gaming.

What catches my eye is the ability to manage how much time a child is spending on their PlayStation machine, and to do it dynamically. This means your child has a time balance per day to play, which you can up or down whenever you wish, and you can see how much they have used in real-time. They can even pitch you for more playtime via the app, so you don’t even need to talk to them! You need only approve or decline.

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Also useful: real-time notifications that show what they’re playing, spending controls, customisable content filtering, and managing access to social features. And graphs, which are always useful, I think.

“We’re excited to bring an easy way for parents to manage their children’s gaming directly from their mobile devices,” said Sony on the PlayStation Blog. “This is just the beginning with our new mobile app – we’ll plan to continue adding enhancements to the PlayStation Family app to evolve the experience over time.”

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While Hollow Knight: Silksong’s cute character designs may suggest something light and effortless, do not be fooled. Silksong is not an easy game to play. In fact, it is darn difficult, requiring plenty of precision, be it platforming of fighting.

Thankfully, developer Team Cherry has popped a number of benches throughout Silksong, where the game’s protagonist Hornet (and the player), can take some weight off and recover from the perils that have come before, before heading once more out into the fray. Except, when the team hasn’t…

You see, many players have come to realise that Team Cherry has in fact planted at least one trick bench in the depths of Silksong, that doesn’t really play fair (please read no further if you do not want to know where).

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Silksong’s trick bench can be found in Hunter’s March, which itself is found off The Marrow. As with many other areas in Silksong, it is tricky. It’s an area you can do early on, but should probably come back to with more upgrades to actually have a better chance of getting through. Needless to say, when you get to a bench, you will likely feel a sense of relief, and want to finally pause and take a breather. Except this trick bench will scupper that breather, and when Hornet sits on it she will activate a spike trap that will whop a load of health off. Ouch!

A post on the Hollow Knight reddit titled ‘I have no words. This is the most anger I have ever felt for any game ever. I had one mask’, with an accompanying picture of the offending bench, has been commented on by many other players who feel a similar amount of anguish (though largely in good humour).

“I was like ‘finally, a bench’, sat down at two masks and let go of my keyboard.. Died,” one reply reads. “My partner was spectating the whole thing and we just laughed for five minutes.

“Damn, the developer had fun making this game for seven years.”

You can check out Silksong’s bench trap in action via the posts below.

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Thankfully, you can disable the trap, and the trick bench then becomes a regular safe bench. If you head to the left side of the bench before sitting on it, you will come across a lever. Swing Hornet’s needle at it, and you will deactivate the spikes (phew).

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Parents: the new PlayStation Family App is out, and there are excellent opportunities for inter-family trolling

Hollow Knight: Silksong developers are trolling players with a seemingly safe haven