Latest articles by Iain Harris
Everything announced at the Xbox Games Showcase 2025
Recap All the announcements, surprises, reveals, and bits of news out from Microsoft
Upcoming dark action-adventure game Hell is Us is channeling "old Zelda games" by giving you "just enough to know where to go but not too much"
News Hell is Us releases September 4
Trade goods and mastermind ferocious naval battles in this historically accurate sea-faring adventure game set in the late 18th-century Caribbean
News You can back Ahoy on Kickstarter now
Set the stage for the hero in narrative-driven exploration game The Bureau of Fantastical & Arcane Affairs
News Available to wishlist on Steam now
How to the watch the Future Games Show Summer Showcase 2025
News You want stream links? We got 'em
Mario Kart World almost cut iconic items like the banana peel and green shell, because Nintendo wasn't sure if they still made "sense" in the Switch 2's new generation
News Thankfully, they survived
Witcher 4 tech demo shows swapping to Unreal Engine was "worth it," CDPR says, and that "it's not like we lost things because of the transition" away from Cyberpunk 2077's RED Engine
News "Obviously, it was a well-thought-out decision to move over"
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 publisher says GTA 6 and Rockstar can make ballooning AAA budgets and team sizes work, but "there's been a lot of irresponsible practices in the industry" from others who can't
News "There is a human cost to running things that way"
It's not just Final Fantasy and Persona – Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is also inspired by my favorite JRPG gem Shadow Hearts, confirming a theory I've been sitting on for weeks
News Judgment Ring, is that you?
Nintendo says Mario Kart World isn't called Mario Kart 9 because simply adding more courses wasn't the plan "this time" – "We wanted to take the series to the next level"
News Mario Kart World has been cooking for eight years, and it shows
Death Stranding 2 technical director says that the jump from PS4 to PS5 "isn't so great," it's just "more efficient"
News "It’s more a case that on PS5 there are more efficient ways of arriving at similar goals"
Square Enix considered shutting down the original Final Fantasy MMO years ago, but the devs received "a lot of support" to keep it going
News Final Fantasy 11 owes plenty to its fans
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 director's first experience playing a JRPG was getting stuck on Final Fantasy 8's first boss because he and his brother "couldn’t read"
News "The only thing we knew how to do was just auto-attack, which is really bad"
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 boss clarifies no DLC is planned – instead, they're focusing on improving the base game
News The game's lead writer previously said "chances are good," but that's far from confirmation
GTA 6 trailer 2 live coverage - all the analysis and reactions
LIVE Rockstar is making the GTA 6 delay news a bit easier to swallow with another look at the long-awaited game
GTA 6 2026 release delay live blog - All the information and reactions live
Everything we know so far about the GTA 6 2026 delay and the reactions from the industry
ConcernedApe regrets making Stardew Valley's fishing minigame "too hard" when you start out, but still thinks it's good overall: "I know it's controversial"
News "I think there should have been a better curve"
