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Menace is an XCOM-Warhammer hybrid that makes turn-based strategy feel like an immersive sim, and for the first time in my life I'm playing a game that seems made for me

Final Fantasy 14 devs have "quite a big plan for jobs moving forward," Yoshi-P teases, cooking up "major changes" for the MMO to "make jobs more interesting for players to use"

Borderlands 4 boss Randy Pitchford says "Nintendo just had the most successful new console launch in the history of video game consoles" with the Switch 2, so of course he wants to "bring more games to it"

Resident Evil Requiem's director was always curious to return to Raccoon City: "It was like rice I'd left forgotten in the rice cooker for a week... eventually curiosity makes you lift the lid"

Indiana Jones and the Great Circle director says gameplay has been one of the most "challenging aspects" of development because even Wolfenstein was "very linear"

Hell Let Loose: Vietnam devs say their new shooter isn't a replacement for the OG World War 2 game, and don't want fans to "feel like we've abandoned them in any way"

Lego Batman devs have "never" adapted older movies, TV shows, and comics before, but Legacy of the Dark Knight will create "one definitive, essential, epic story of Batman"

We asked Obsidian about romance in The Outer Worlds 2, and now I'm a little hopeful the RPG may follow Avowed's example: "It truly does need to be something that's organic"

"You could go and keep beating up people on top of buildings" forever in Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2, but devs say "we're not making GTA" because even vampires need to sleep

I can't get enough of the cute cat-like companion in this puzzle platformer, even if some block pushing is a little business as usual

Indiana Jones and the Great Circle devs love feedback, but will stick to their guns when it comes to game direction: "Yeah, but no thanks, because we already have a very good idea that we believe in"

"The shorthand is New Vegas in space": The Outer Worlds 2 directors double down on Fallout comparisons, and Obsidian isn't worried about setting expectations too high: "It's our pedigree"

Todd Howard apparently "rolled his eyes" at the thought of Troy Baker playing Indiana Jones and the Great Circle's protagonist, but the game's lead says it "wouldn't have been what it is" without the Last of Us star

Beyond These Stars is the weirdest city-builder I've ever seen, thanks to a giant space whale that can go rogue if it gets too hungry

Nearly 30 years ago, an RPG veteran walked away from Fallout 2 after just a few conversations – with The Outer Worlds 2, he's finally "doing a sequel to a game that I created the IP for"

The stealthy spirit of Arkham Knight returns in Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight, and I never believed a Lego game could pull this off

Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford feels like "we're just getting started" with Borderlands spin-off Tiny Tina's Wonderlands: "I would bet that we are going to spend more time on that"