Latest articles by Jordan Gerblick
Palworld dev's new publishing label isn't interested in AI slop: "If you're big on AI stuff ... we're not the right partner for that"
News Pocketpair Publishing boss John Buckley says "we don't believe in" AI-generated games
The physical Xbox edition of remastered JRPG darling Tales of Xillia seemingly canceled a week before release: "All preorders will be canceled and refunded"
news "We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this may cause, but it is beyond our control"
Microsoft says the next Xbox console "will be a very premium and high-end curated experience," and you can see "some of the thinking" in the Xbox Ally handheld
news It's good to have confirmation that there even will be another Xbox console
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 lead says "it would be harder to embrace our Frenchness even more" unless Sandfall "put snails and frogs everywhere in the next game"
news Clair Obscur might've created a new genre: the FRPG
Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth director thinks "Nintendo will put more effort into popularizing" the Switch 2's controversial game key cards, which he calls "a really amazing new idea"
News Square Enix's Naoki Hamaguchi is fully on-board with Switch 2 game key cards
After asking for $50,000 and getting almost $4 million, the Don't Starve board game is running out of stretch goals on Kickstarter: "With a community like yours, is anything impossible?"
news Don't Starve: The Board Game almost has the funds necessary to unlock every stretch goal
Bethesda's Fallout bundle is 70% off and gets you every main Fallout game and all DLC for $43 in one of the best Steam RPG deals of the season
news They wouldn't have believed this in 1997
Screw up too hard in The Outer Worlds 2 and your companions may fight you "to the death" because Obsidian wanted the RPG's cast to feel "like they're their own people"
News "We wanted to make sure that the companions felt more realistic with how they dealt with the player"
After 7 long snowless years, the League of Legends Winter map is coming back this year "because you really asked for it"
news Riot says its "tech and tools need some work," but because of fan demand, the Winter map is returning for 2025
The original Little Nightmares devs basically made their own Little Nightmares 3, and I had more fun playing its Steam Next Fest demo than I did reviewing the actual sequel from Supermassive
news It seems the future of Little Nightmares, in all but name, is at original studio Tarsier
God of War Ragnarok lead says AAA studios should "diversify into double-A and single-A, and then perhaps indie" even if blockbuster releases result in "potentially really large" payoffs
news "I think gamers right now are a little bit desensitized to beautiful graphics and size and scale and scope"
Game dev union blasts EA buyout, asks the government to scrutinize the daylights out of it: "If jobs are lost or studios are closed due to this deal, that would be a choice, not a necessity"
News "We, the very people who will be jeopardized as a result of this deal, were not represented at all when this buyout was negotiated or discussed"
A Short Hike dev's free "seasonal pumpkin carving MMO" with "new areas and new secrets" now supports 800 players at once and it's hard to think of a better way to get into the Halloween spirit
news The thing with real-life jack-o'-lanterns is, they rot and stain your front porch. These ones don't
29 years later, cult classic horror game I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream gets "definitive update" from retro powerhouse Nightdive with bonus content, achievements, and "modern menu options"
news Time to relive the depression all over again
Battlefield 6 Conquest tickets get reduced, players revolt: "If I wanted ten-minute chaos with zero teamwork and no room for tactics, I’d go play COD"
News "Battlefield has never been about short, twitchy, run and die matches"
The Battlefield 6 movement saga reaches new heights as players find glitch that lets you fly into the clouds on a drone, preferably with a sniper for taking out enemies from the sky
News Forget the ladder exploit, this is straight up criminal
GTA 6 "deserves to be $100," says original Saints Row designer: "The scope and magnitude of this production deserves that price tag"
news "I think that there'll be a tremendous amount of backlash if everyone switched to $100," but in GTA 6's case, "I really hope it's $100"
Elder Scrolls Online devs make their bets on the world-first clear of the MMO's Writhing Wall event, watching entire servers fight a rift in the world map itself
News ESO's lead encounter designer says he's "pulling for Xbox EU" as the "dark horse" of the race to take down the Writhing Wall
Battlefield 6 devs locked in a tug-of-war with players are "looking at adjustments" to movement "to find a good in-between" following nerfs and exploits
News "We already have some changes that are cooking on our side"
Battlefield 6 players are using ladders to fly around maps in defiance of movement nerfs, and EA already says "we will" patch this out too
News Sadly, this should probably be fixed
This cosmic horror action RPG basically turns my home state of Arizona into the Upside Down from Stranger Things, and it's my first must-play Steam Next Fest demo
news I beat up my high school bully and then hacked demons to death in the Steam Next Fest demo for Kingdom of Night, and I recommend you do the same
Gearbox's Randy Pitchford is pretty happy with Borderlands 4 story feedback: "Isn't it weird to ship a game where the biggest complaint isn't how we f***ed up the story?"
News "Everyone's like, 'nah, story's awesome, characters, we love it'"
Sandfall says Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 winning GOTY "isn't something we aim for," and even though it would be a "nice little bonus," it's rooting for Megabonk
News Clair Obscur director Guillaume Broche can't stop playing Megabonk: "Help me!"
