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"Everyone knows GoldenEye, it's a legendary game": 007 First Light boss says his goal is to make an all-timer James Bond game, even if the result is "very different" to Hitman

007 First Light is more than just Hitman: James Bond edition, and I'm over any fears I might have had that IO couldn't deliver

For the Hitman devs, 007: First Light felt like "coming home" because James Bond has been an "inspiration" for so long

Octopath Traveler 1 and 2 are two of my favorite turn-based RPGs, but I'm not sure how I'm going to go back to them after falling in love with Octopath Traveler 0's town-building mode

Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles director open to revisiting the series' Game Boy Advance sequels if the remaster does well, but thinks the strategy RPG playerbase is currently a "bit small"

Final Fantasy Tactics remaster makes Cloud easier to use, Square Enix promises, and even gives him the Materia Blade right off the bat, so you'll want to see the secret hiding where it was in the original RPG

Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles devs "haven't made any changes to characters that were powerful," because they "didn't really want to disappoint" OG fans with nerfs

45 minutes of Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles has me certain that Square Enix "rebuilding" the remaster after losing the original source code was worth the effort

Ghostrunner devs abandon parkour for Valor Mortis, a first-person soulslike that might explain why the rest of the genre follows Dark Souls' lead

"We tend to commit to the bit": Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford talks Borderlands 4, the evolution of looter-shooters, and $80 game discourse

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"