Latest articles by Jordan Gerblick
Almost 200 members of Blizzard's Overwatch 2 team have unionized: "The biggest issue was the layoffs at the beginning of 2024"
news This is the second wall-to-wall union to form at Blizzard since the World of Warcraft team organized in July 2024
The creator of XCOM has high hopes for Switch 2's mouse Joy-Cons and strategy games: "Mouse control RTS might work really well here"
News Switch 2's "co-op style game chat feature" and mouse controls have a big fan in XCOM's creator
Silent Hill 2 movie from the director behind the controversial 2006 Silent Hill will be a "faithful adaptation" of the "masterpiece of a game" that is the PS2 classic
news Return to Silent Hill is set for a theatrical release
JRPG sickos, I hate to get your hopes up again, but Yuji Horii says he's "starting to contemplate" a Chrono Trigger remake
news Don't give me hope, Yuji Horii
23 years and 3 sequels later, Mafia: The Old Country is abandoning its open-world roots, but a $50 "linear, narrative-driven" game sounds like heaven in 2025
News Mafia: The Old Country won't be a "massive time commitment"
Eric Barone can't say if Haunted Chocolatier will be out by 2030, but "that's the goal" and "it has to be better" than Stardew Valley
News "There's a lot that still needs to be done"
Eric Barone says "if there was gonna be another" Stardew Valley update after 1.6, he wouldn't announce it until it was "completely finished" on all platforms
news If Stardew Valley 1.7 is ever a thing, it sounds it'll release on PC, console, and mobile at the same time
Rockstar says GTA 6 trailer 2 was "equal parts gameplay and cutscenes," and I'm wondering where the gameplay was
News There was gameplay?
Ex Rockstar dev says GTA 6 would be worth the "$80 bucks or whatever" for its detail and realism: "You think Mario Kart competes with a game like this"
News "No other game has the detail and the amount of realism that this does"
EA CEO won't call out the GTA 6 delay by name, but says the new Battlefield release window is "clearer than it was before"
News "We feel very good about launching Battlefield in FY 2026"
EA says "it hasn't always" understood what Battlefield players want, but the response to the new entry has "far exceeded our expectations" after "thousands of hours" of playtests
News More than 600,000 playtesters have signed up to play Battlefield 6, and there's about to be more
It sure seems like Rockstar is still salty over that GTA 6 mega leak as trailer 2 opens with protagonist Jason "just fixing some leaks"
News Either that or it's an incredible coincidence
GTA 6 brings back a classic location from Vice City, this time even more ridiculously American
News "Phil's Ammunation"
It took Oblivion Remastered a single week to become the third best-selling game of 2025 behind Assassin's Creed Shadows and Monster Hunter Wilds
News Oblivion Remastered was also the best-selling game of that week, but that's less surprising
After 25 years, a weird Sega icon is back with a new game from the "entire original team," remasters, and a countdown website that only has 8,529 hours to go
news Ecco the Dolphin is back, baby
Ex PlayStation boss says $50 Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is the "perfect balance" of AAA ambition, AA budget, and "independent vision" – "This is the path the industry should be pursuing"
News "I hope the game gets the success it deserves, because it’s time for AA games to regain their market share"
Chrono Trigger remake reportedly revealed by Dragon Quest and JRPG pioneer Yuji Horii, who seemingly didn't know it was a secret: "You have heard nothing"
news Whoopsie-daisy
This Oblivion Remastered Easter egg is forcing me to confront a difficult truth about early 2010s meme culture: It was never funny, actually
News Millennial humor just doesn't hit like it used to
"Even though I worked on Oblivion Remastered, I'm still excited for Skyblivion": Bethesda shows more love to the modders who've been remaking Elder Scrolls 4 for 12 years
News Not only are they not shutting down Skyblivion; they're big fans of it
With GTA 6 delayed to 2026, Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 star celebrates: "We're in with a shot" to win Game of the Year 2025
News I imagine a lot of game devs with new releases are thinking the same thing right now
JRPG legend Yuji Horii is teaming up with the Blue Lock manga writer for a new Nintendo Switch game literally designed to ruin your friendships
news "The closer you get to victory, the more your friendships will be destroyed"
"An entirely new department is spinning up at Larian" focused on the Baldur's Gate 3 studio's greatest strength: RPG storytelling
News Larian is staffing up for the two new games it's working on
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 publisher says Oblivion Remastered "didn't seem to harm us at all," it just "drew attention to quality RPGs"
News Clair Obscur publisher Kepler "always knew that Expedition 33 had a very specific identity"
