Latest articles by Kaan Serin
Xbox's Phil Spencer leaves it up to developers to decide if they want to use AI, and any top-down mandate "is not really a path to success"
News "On the creative side, I really leave it up to the teams"
Next-gen Xbox console will focus on "connecting all your devices in one place," Phil Spencer teases, with the handheld ROG Xbox Ally a sign of things to come
News Lining up with Sarah Bond's recent comments
Take-Two CEO calls generative AI "the future of technology" that "will increase employment," months after saying GTA 6's "creative genius is human"
News "AI is a great thing. It's a great thing for every industry."
Mario Galaxy and Astro Bot-inspired 3D platformer demolishes its Kickstarter funding goal in just 47 minutes, now smashing through multiple stretch goals
News Home Paige is set in an old school OS' recycling bin
Still embroiled in Subnautica 2 drama, PUBG and Hi-Fi Rush owner Krafton announces it's an "AI first" company now as it plans to spend $70 million on the tech
News It's sinking a lot of money into the tech to make it happen
Super Mario Bros speedrunner is now just 11 frames away from the absolute perfect playthrough of the 40-year-old classic, after beating the world record for the third time this year
News 4:54.448 is the new Any% record
Helldivers 2 patch "marks a big step forward" for Arrowhead, which "made a bunch of changes behind the scenes" to fix over 200 bugs and finally tackle the game's performance woes
News "While new features are coming, this patch marks a big step forward: both in the game itself and in how we work to improve it"
A co-op open-world crafting game with a road trip twist is rising up the Steam charts and with 1 million wishlists already, this might be a monster at launch
News Outbound is set up for success
Simpsons: Hit & Run might be stuck in rights purgatory, but fans of the classic open-world game can dry their tears with a beautiful Futurama conversion mod
News And it even caught the attention of Hit & Run's OG lead designer
Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth director defends the JRPG's overlong filler, but says he’s "striking a balance" with Part 3: "Players just have too much to do and too much to play"
News Naoki Hamaguchi doesn't think certain sections were longer than needed.
Don't Starve but now you're a cute little mouse is the pitch for the hit Steam Next Fest demo that's about to give me another survival game obsession
News A perfect escape from the cold
Help, I fed the black hole in A Game About Feeding A Black Hole and now I can't stop the approaching galactic entropy of its Steam Next Fest demo
News Does what it says on the tin
Former Nintendo of America lead says leaving to help set up Sega of America is "probably the biggest mistake I ever made"
News From the NES to the Master System
Pokemon Friends sure does look like another game from the same developer, as fans accuse the puzzler of being a 2016 reskin
News Not very friendly
Helldivers 2 players defended a Halo Reach-esque planet so hard that Arrowhead has declared a new "Avengement Day" annual holiday to honor the brave Beach warriors
News Remember Beach
Arc Raiders devs already patch Server Slam disconnect errors as Steam players queue to get in: "This time around, it's a full redownload of the game"
News "This isn’t the norm, but it should be the last hotfix of its kind."
Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 Metacritic score lives up to its messy development cycle, failing to beat the original cult RPG thanks to divided reviews
News 3 points away from greatness
Rumored Pokemon Winds and Waves budgets are likely much larger than leaks, former Nintendo marketing leads say, because they don't cover "significant" marketing costs
News The $20 million figure flating around doesn't paint the full picture
Marvel Rivals pulls another Overwatch, adds PvE "Marvel Zombies-inspired" mode in time for its first Halloween event with 5 playable heroes
News And two zombified bosses
Former Call of Duty director Glen Schofield says "I hate doing this, but since I left Sledgehammer, none of the games have been very good"
News The Callisto Protocol director still thinks Treyarch's got it
After conquering YouTube, Kirby and Super Smash Bros' Masahiro Sakurai is now getting a 160-page manga about his life and art
News And it's out next month
Another studio known for single-player games takes the live service gamble: Heavy Rain dev is making a competitive multiplayer game even as "development of Star Wars: Eclipse continues"
News Quantic Dream's Star War has been missing for four years
Pokemon Legends: Z-A only needs to sell 200k units to break even, former Nintendo marketing leads estimate, so "they should inject a bit more money into these things"
News "Just so you don't have crappy trees and windows"
