Latest articles by Alex Raisbeck
As The Witcher 3 prepares for its 10th anniversary, Geralt's voice actor explains why its popularity still endures: "There are very few games since that have approached that level of immersive storytelling"
News "It was a milestone in game development for all kinds of reasons"
The game dev legend who programmed the first 3 Final Fantasy games says "I'd never seen any role-playing games until Final Fantasy"
News "It was a challenge, but at the same time it was exciting to be able to do something different."
In a huge win for niche games, this solo dev's 4-hour software adventure has racked up $1 million in revenue
News Crime doesn't pay, but solving it does
Final Fantasy creator plans to make another game before he retires, and this one is inspired by Final Fantasy 6
News "It'll be part two of my farewell note."
Palworld dev says he's swamped with offers for Pocketpair's new publishing company, which is all about "giving devs the financial freedom to make games they want"
News "We give you money. You make game."
Baldur's Gate 3 dev continues to champion indie games, begging Steam to let him overpay the creators of his favorite games
News "I want to give this dude €30 because his game f***ing slaps."
Doom: The Dark Ages is id Software's "biggest" game world ever: "It's a dramatic expansion for our world."
News "The world that you're exploring is like nothing we've done before."
Marvel Rivals announces crossover with Marvel Snap and other mobile titles
News A multiverse of madness
Solo developer behind The Falconeer and Bulwark explains why Game Pass is so great for indies: "If you get in it's generally a very positive thing for a dev."
News "I'd be on Game Pass the moment they could fit me in, no questions asked."
WoW Hardcore streamer receives $7k donation on one condition: he has to delete everything he owns
News Back to square one
The Soul Reaver remaster's director was hired after creating their own fan remaster for free
News "Because I already had these original textures assembled, it saved so much on the whole process."
Yoshi-P and Hiroshi Takai jokingly clash as they react to Clive's lewd Tekken 8 outfit: "You OK'd this?"
News "I might have been out of it at the time."
The original Kingdom Hearts was initially "more hardcore" until Square Enix toned it down: "We had some puzzles in there that would make you go, 'what is this, Takeshi's Challenge?'"
News "It's a bit of a wolf in sheep's clothing."
Metal Gear Solid's former art director once said he spends "a lot of time fussing over the details of the characters' backside since that's the side the player sees most in-game"
News "Especially the butts."
Cut content for Final Fantasy 15 reveals developers originally had different plans for the game's final chapter
News Penultimate Fantasy 15
Veteran Yakuza dev praises Sega for not settling for "safe" games: "It accepts the possibility of failure"
News "You could say that is Sega's DNA."
During the original Final Fantasy 7's development, the devs considered Tetsuya Nomura "the Demon King of retakes" - "He was always making the designers re-do things"
News "Yeah, I stuck my nose into everyone's work there."
Final Fantasy 14 battle designer admits the team "vetoed some interesting ideas" for Endwalker fight mechanics "so melee players wouldn't be frustrated by periods of downtime"
News "We removed them regardless of how interesting the mechanic could be."
Despite "a rocky couple of years," analyst reckons Xbox's console war is "actually looking pretty bright" - "If you look at the PlayStation sales chart, you see a lot of Microsoft on there"
News "You look at their results in their earnings reports, and you go, okay, that looks pretty darn good"
"If we spoiled Arcane, it would have been heartbreaking": League of Legends spin-off Teamfight Tactics had scripts 2 years ago, and went to extreme lengths to keep them secret
News "It was very, very stressful. But I'm glad we didn't do it."
Dragon Quest 3 lead Yuji Horii once said that the original JRPG "had to be four times as interesting as DQ1," otherwise "people wouldn't say it was fun"
News "They'd say it was boring if it was just the same."
The devs behind "the biggest PC strategy game on the market" say their main aim is "to be everyone's second favorite game"
News Striving for silver
