Latest articles by Catherine Lewis
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 devs warn players have "1 more day to enjoy" the JRPG's most broken skill before it's nerfed, after they "clearly overdid it" with a last-minute damage boost
News The devs "still want you to be able to break the game," but "Stendhal was making it a bit too easy"
Death Stranding 2 will "allow players that want to fight to do so more freely," Hideo Kojima says, like how Metal Gear Solid 2 "made it a little easier to use weapons"
News Kojima says "we first had to get people accustomed" to "games about delivery" in Death Stranding
Palworld studio makes "yet another compromise" amid Nintendo lawsuit by changing the survival game's gliding mechanic
News Pocketpair continues to "dispute these claims and assert the invalidity of the patents in question"
FromSoftware had to adjust the difficulty in Elden Ring Nightreign after the beta to make sure it's "challenging as you progress, but still manageable," and yes, some things are harder now
News One of the Nightlords, Gladius, is getting even tougher
"Chat did we cook?": GTA 6 devs are "so proud" as Rockstar drops trailer 2, saying that "working hard pays off"
News "WE'RE COOKINGGGGG"
"We got a PS6 tease before GTA 6": Everyone's making the same joke about this 5-second shot in Rockstar's new Grand Theft Auto trailer, which features a mysterious new console
News It's not quite a PS5, but it sure looks familiar
GTA 6's Lucia and Jason get full names and backstories as trailer 2 drops and Rockstar shares loads more details about its protagonists
News Meet Lucia Caminos and Jason Duval
"I hate it": Former Assassin's Creed, Far Cry lead says that with Switch 2 game-key cards, "we're losing some of what made the business special"
News Even though game-key cards aren't popular with everyone, Alex Hutchinson thinks "Nintendo is going to get away with it"
Borderlands fan determined to bring back dead MMO gets past the first hurdle – the login screen: "I'll make sure the community gets to experience this game one way or another"
News Borderlands Online was killed off in 2015
GTA 6 delay is a "bummer," former Rockstar technical lead says, but the release date announcement shows the devs are "clearly confident" in the new deadline
News "A second trailer would be nice now to wash away the disappointment," he adds
Analysts react to GTA 6 delay: "2025 will clearly be the year of Nintendo now" and "the delay isn't a stumble – it's Rockstar doing what it always does"
News "The double whammy that was supposed to revitalize the game industry overall is now called off," one analyst says
"I don't think anyone benefits in 2025 from this": GTA 6 delay is bad news for the games industry, analyst says, adding to "nightmare scenario territory" following Xbox price hike
News Mat Piscatella says GTA 6 "was going to be a big driver of what success potential the holiday season had"
Deadlock streamer accidentally unveils 10 new heroes on the way to Valve's MOBA, as well as updated character designs for multiple existing favorites
News There appears to be some big developments happening behind the scenes
GTA 6 release date set for May 2026 as Rockstar's long-awaited open-world blockbuster is delayed out of this year
News Rockstar is "very sorry that this is later than you expected"
Nintendo swiftly rolls out another Switch update after the last one trapped some users on an error screen when loading up their consoles
News Those hit with error code 2206-1015 need to put their console into Maintainence Mode to apply the new update
Nintendo makes a big change to the eShop ahead of Switch 2, pushing down shovelware but potentially hurting good indies too
News The eShop charts may now be ranked in a way that prioritizes expensive AAA games
Bethesda giving out Oblivion Remastered keys to Skyblivion modders is "exactly what I'd like to see more of," says CEO of retro remaster studio as devs reflect on game preservation
News Bethesda made it clear it's not shutting down the Skyblivion project
An Xbox Series X now costs $600 as Microsoft raises prices on hardware, with "some" first-party games also jumping to $80 this year
News The new prices for consoles and accessories are in place right now, worldwide
After more than 4 years, Fortnite is coming back to iOS in the US, and Epic has a "peace proposal" for Apple which could see the battle royale return to the App Store worldwide
News Fortnite will be back on iOS next week for players in the United States
Pokemon TCG Pocket community is in shambles as a cheerleading chicken threatens to destroy the meta with an ability that makes it almost completely immune to the game's strongest cards
News Oricori-oh no
Nintendo Switch's new Steam Families-like digital game loaning feature is here, but some are unhappy as functionality for an old sharing method has seemingly been ruined
News The Virtual Game Cards feature lets you lend digital games to friends, but there are some restrictions in place
GTA 6 has nothing to do with Borderlands 4's new release date, as Gearbox CEO insists it's "100% the result of confidence," not "any other product's actual or theoretical launch date"
News Gearbox is clearly feeling very good about Borderlands 4's development up to this point
Fortnite brings back long-forgotten Borderlands collab skin for the first time in almost 5 years, right on cue for Borderlands 4's new, earlier release date
News The skin will be leaving the item shop again in a few days
