Latest articles by Jordan Gerblick
Nintendo legend says Shigeru Miyamoto's industrial design education caused him to view his games as "products" instead of "works of art", and that's why they're "more closely aligned" with players
news Not the 'games as art' discourse
Blizzard puts the nerf bat down, reaches for a dash of buffs instead, then says screw it and buffs literally every Diablo 4 class in the next update
News Diablo 4's 2.3.1 update is buffathon
Borderlands 4 narrative director reveals his biggest uncertainty, and looking at the script, yeah, I get it: "The crowd falls apart like that guy in the cube that gets cubed in the movie Cube"
News Vex's gory story trailer was "the biggest 'I have no idea what's going to happen when I turn in this script' moment" for the Borderlands 4 story lead
I thought Kojima filmed Death Stranding 2's opening sequence in my Arizona backyard, and now that people are confusing pictures of a real-life desert for screenshots, I know I haven't lost my marbles
News "Safe to say Kojima Productions managed to achieve photo realism with DS2"
Gorgeous limited edition Ghost of Yotei PS5 consoles and controllers draw inspiration from traditional Japanese art and "one of the core aspects within the game"
news My old PS5 is looking pretty dusty right about now
Sucker Punch says "the best way to play" Ghost of Yotei is to "find something interesting on the horizon and enjoy the ride," and thankfully since Breath of the Wild that's the only way I play open-world games
News The new spyglass feature lets you pick out landmarks far in the distance
Subnautica 2 owner Krafton says "former leadership abandoned the responsibilities entrusted to them" in response to concerns over sudden changes and official delay: "We feel a profound sense of betrayal by their failure"
News Krafton says it "made multiple requests to Charlie and Max to resume their roles as Game Director and Technical Director, respectively, but both declined to do so"
Pokemon voice actor behind OG rival Gary, Professor Oak, Meowth, and James dies at 71
News James Carter Cathcart was a veteran Pokemon voice actor of 27 years
Krafton says the Subnautica 2 delay had nothing to do with money and was already being discussed before last week's leadership shakeup, and oh, here's a 90-second gameplay teaser
News Krafton has denied that the Subnautica 2 delay had anything to do with "any contractual or financial consideration" and says "the decision had already been under discussion prior to recent leadership changes at the studio"
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle being a first-person only game "was a given" from the start because "if you're going to be Indiana Jones, you need to look through his eyes"
News "It took years" to nail that element of the game, says MachineGames
BioShock creator says "audiences reward" single-player games that don't have "other methods of monetization," like Baldur's Gate 3, Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
News "I'm just grateful that we're allowed to not do that because that just frees us to purely design the game for the player's experience"
Subnautica 2 reportedly delayed to 2026 "against the wishes" of devs and ousted leaders who stood to receive a $250 million bonus from publisher Krafton if it came out this year
News It seemed bound to happen
The 15 best VR games you can play right now
List Thanks to the best VR games, you can literally step into the shoes of your heroes
Former Xbox boss says Microsoft was "disadvantaged" before the Xbox 360 era where it was able to "flex its muscles" in third-party gaming: "Having developers feel good, make money on your platform was key"
news "Microsoft was a platform way before we started talking about platforms in video games"
Final Fantasy 14 director Yoshi-P admits recent raid was "a misstep in development" that "wasn't meant to be hardcore," says Square is "trying to satisfy both" casual and hardcore MMO players
News "We made it too difficult for players to even get into" the Forked Tower: Blood raid
The Last of Us Part 2 is fast becoming Sony's Skyrim: Naughty Dog has come up with yet another excuse to revisit it – a "chronological experience" update that rearranges the story
news You can dress up Joel as Nathan Drake from Uncharted if you play The Last of Us 2's new story mode
Hideo Kojima's favorite vtuber found herself in Death Stranding 2, and her immediate reaction was a mix of happiness and self-cringe: "I'm so embarrassed. She's still yapping"
News Watch Pekora talk to Pekora
$700,000 in Kickstarter booty says Sid Meier's Pirates! sickos are fully on board with this first-person, open world, and "most importantly - authentic" take on nautical history that's lacking in Sea of Thieves and Black Flag
news Capstan Games aims to release Ahoy's closed alpha in 2026
Subnautica studio co-founder speaks on "shock" dismissal, says "we know that the game is ready" – "To find that I'm no longer able to work at the company I started stings"
News "And I also want you to know that this is not where the story ends"
The 20 best anime games to play in 2025
Best List From Genshin Impact to Dragon Ball FighterZ, here are the 20 best anime games to play right now
Phil Spencer reportedly had so much fun playing the Elder Scrolls Online dev's unannounced MMO that Xbox's Matt Booty had to take his controller from him — 4 months later it's canceled
news What could've been
The Mario Party developer's first new game on Switch 2 is already out: it's Welcome Tour, the weird and divisive tech demo
News Nintendo Cube has been in charge of Mario Party since Mario Party 9
"No subscriptions. No loot boxes. No battle pass": Subnautica 2 devs address concerns following major leadership changes, insist "it will remain a single-player first experience"
News "When it comes to Subnautica 2, the team that has been working on the game day-to-day over the last few years remains completely unchanged"
