Latest articles by Iain Harris
Our latest look at Life is Strange: Reunion sees Max and Chloe try to infiltrate a mysterious party
News Let us in, please
Quite a Ride is a Stranger Things-like horror where you don't want to "stop moving for too long"
News "This is a game about dread, tension, and enigma"
Overwatch lead says using Steam player counts to dunk on Marathon is "big unemployed, maidenless behavior"
News He's got a point
"Slay the Spire 2 has taken over his life": Palworld CEO gets a telling off for playing too much of the deckbuilder
News "Next time I'm confiscating his Steam Deck"
Assassin’s Creed Hexe will be a "darker" installment "set during a pivotal moment in history"
News "We'll be quiet for a while longer"
WoW Midnight's Prey system is a "don't AFK mode" on its nastiest difficulty, Blizzard says
News Be careful where you park your World of Warcraft character when the next expansion comes out
Starfield was a "bat**** crazy idea" for a studio that's "never made a space sim," Bethesda lead admits
News Shoot for the stars, and all of that
Bethesda didn't think Fallout 4 having voiced protagonists in the RPG would be so controversial
News Lead producer Emil Pagliarulo says "there's still so much choice" in the RPG
Calling games like Peak and REPO friendslop "devalues" the skill of the developer, industry investor says
News "'Slop' to me means that something is sloppy, not well done and a bit junky""
Divinity trailer isn't that shocking because it's "not that different from what you see on HBO or on Netflix"
News The trailer is "aspirational" and what the Baldur's Gate 3 studio wants "the game to look like"
"It's really fateful" – Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth director on charting a new course for the JRPG series with a return to Nintendo, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, and outdoing AI
Features Interview | Square Enix's Naoki Hamaguchi answers all of our questions - then several more
Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth director says "however much AI might try and intrude and take part in the creative side of things," his team would want to be "good enough creators" that "we could do better than AI"
News Naoki Hamaguchi says that using AI for the creative side of development is "not something that I could really go ahead with"
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 devs love to see players "outsmarting" them with obscene builds that break the French JRPG wide open: "The best reward you can get"
News I'm not sure Simon feels the same way
20 years later, cult classic PS2 JRPG Tales of Rebirth is finally fully playable in English thanks to a fan translation that's been in the works for nearly 4 years
News Another Tales game has been, well, rebirthed
Former PlayStation boss Shuhei Yoshida has one regret from the PS1 era: the US and Europe missed out on too many Japanese classics
News "So some Japanese games, especially from third-party companies, didn't see release in the US and European regions"
The Outer Worlds 2 lead says players want "deeper RPGs," and that the team has looked to "older Obsidian games" to deliver just that: "How can we bring that back to the forefront"
News Game director Brandon Adler wants to "really get back to those sensibilities of a really strong RPG"
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is only 85% of its creative director's original vision for the French JRPG, and he "would have loved" to do more with a specific fan-favorite character
News Justice for Esquie is "something that we might want to do later," says Sandfall Interactive lead Guillaume Broche
