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Reducing the "burden" of open-world games, Ghost of Yotei replaces Ghost of Tsushima’s journal menu with a "wolf pack" of important characters that meet you under the stars: "The game comes to you"
News That's convenient
Former Square Enix exec says the developer "has spent two decades slowly moving away from being a content business" after accidentally predicting the rise of AI: "But the sun set on their opportunity to transition"
News "In the meantime, we just made content"
GTA 6 rumor suggests GTA Online server player capacity could double, even triple, and it's making me want to lock my doors and stockpile guns like I'm in a doomsday bunker
News Good grief
Subnautica 2 reportedly delayed to 2026 "against the wishes" of devs and ousted leaders who stood to receive a $250 million bonus from publisher Krafton if it came out this year
News It seemed bound to happen
"What happened with Microsoft was clear": Former Square Enix exec says Game Pass, "a service with barely any growth," didn't cause layoffs – competition with AI did
News "Get on board, or perish"
"SILKSONG IS IMMORTAL AND SO ARE WE": Desperate for answers, Hollow Knight Silksong fans are ritualistically banning mods in savage sacrifice to their fickle god Team Cherry
News "We made the choice, there's no alternative"
I hope you're ready for round 2, because Elden Ring Nightreign is bringing back 3 weeks of mega-bosses – except this time they come in pairs for more varied pain: "F*** my life"
News Ow, ow, ow, ow
Former Microsoft exec says if Xbox hadn't shelled out $1.15 billion to fix its infamous red ring of death, "I'm not sure the Xbox brand would be around today"
News Peter Moore did what he had to do
I hope you're not squeamish, because Elden Ring Nightreign lets you find and loot your own corpse to steal back your best gear on your next run: "I couldn't have even imagined that was possible"
News Just a little desecration is OK
EU publisher group addresses Stop Killing Games movement in early double down: killing online games "must be an option," and this proposal would make them "prohibitively expensive to create"
News Video Games Europe's board include executives from EA, Microsoft, and Warner Bros.
Horse girl gacha gamers are so obsessed with pink racer Haru Urara that the farm that owns the real-life horse she's based on, who never won a single race, had to respond
News Umamusume: Pretty Derby is pro-loser
The best new game I've played all year is a 30-minute demo where I just climbed rocks and ate chocolate bars – and I still care about it more than Borderlands 4 and GTA 6 combined
Hands-on Summer Preview 2025 | Cairn is improbably good
This insomnia simulator has Outlast enemies, Alan Wake dream sequences, and "evil" music by a Nine Inch Nails guitarist, and I already need to watch about 50 lore videos on it
Hands-on Summer Preview 2025 | Just thinking about Sleep Awake makes me tired
Hideo Kojima celebrates his new delivery sim with the official Death Stranding 2 Giga Meat pizza, complete with can of Red Bull
News Fuel up, delivery boy
Nostalgic indie game from publisher Annapurna is a "respite from the current cursed reality" inspired by real-life, dev says: "Ended about as well as you can expect, including a nice scar, and cow s***"
News Mixtape takes the berries with the bruises
Deus Ex lead's new game offers a Baldur's Gate 3-grade commitment to cheese where friends can betray each other over a wheel of parmesan
News I'd do anything for burrata
David Cronenberg says he's "never been a great games player" — the only "game" in movies like eXistenZ and Videodrome "is to try to understand what life is now"
News Cronenberg visited the Tribeca Film Festival red carpet for the 50th anniversary of Shivers
Until Dawn studio's first sci-fi game is a body horror fest inspired by John Carpenter with tons of Lethal Company tension, and I've never been so excited to turn into a pile of sludge
Hands-on Summer Preview 2025 | Directive 8020 is my dream nightmare
You can cure Elden Ring Nightreign's most annoying random event for free by simply making it to Day 3 and jumping off a bridge and into a black pit of death
News Dying with dignity
Warner Bros. triples down on Harry Potter, Game of Thrones, Mortal Kombat, and DC in organization restructure, putting Batman: Arkham Origins and NetherRealm studio heads in charge
News "We are very fortunate"
PlayStation explains Death Stranding in 6 minutes to remind hopeful Death Stranding 2 players where they came from, but now I'm so confused I forgot where I was born
News So, where do the fetuses come in?
Hyper Light Drifter studio's new 2D side-scroller is a chimera of my favorite things: the mythology of Neon White, Metroidvania tension from Animal Well, and perfect Smash Bros. combat
Hands-on Summer Preview 2025 | Heart Machine knows how to make me obsess
Stellar Blade director promises the sequel will add more narrative substance to the game that received practically a billion "adult" mods as soon as it released on Steam
News Beauty and brains!
