Latest articles by Iain Harris
Months after porting GTA 3 to Dreamcast, the same devs are repeating the trick with Vice City, and they already have rough progress to show
News After 22 long years, the wait for GTA Vice City on Dreamcast might soon be over
Doom: The Dark Ages features "the largest spaces we've ever made,” but id Software knows you don't want to spend 2 hours in a single level
News Game director Hugo Martin says each level aims for that "sweet spot" of one hour to complete
Doom: The Dark Ages devs looked to everything from Star Wars to Batman Year One to shape the iconic shooter's next game
News "You follow the IP development rulebook that was created by a lot of great people"
Dragon Age and Anthem producer says stop harassing developers "because you don't know the circumstances that resulted in the thing that you're mad at"
News Former BioWare executive Mark Darrah says "be a human being, have some empathy"
Still plagued by Gwent memes, The Witcher 3 director's new vampire RPG makes you think twice about playing mini-games while the world burns
News Blood of Dawnwalker wants to retain some urgency
Sony finally managed to pry Final Fantasy 7 away from Nintendo thanks to a "schmoozer" of a former employee who hung out with Square Enix executives at his parties, according to one former PlayStation boss
News The Nintendo 64 sticking with cartridges over CDs certainly helped, too
Square Enix kills Final Fantasy game's mobile version after being unable to "completely fix" a bug stopping fans from accessing their additional paid content
News So long, Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles remaster (iOS)
Final Fantasy creator says the original JRPG's programmer was "like a god" to him: "I still strongly feel that the core program itself is the ‘life’ of a game"
News "I think that respect for Nasir helped to make the first Final Fantasy an amazing game"
The years-long GTA 6 debate over what happens to GTA Online has been addressed by Take-Two's CEO: "We've shown a willingness to support legacy titles when a community wants to be engaged with them"
News A GTA Online 2 wouldn't, theoretically, mean the end of GTA Online
Microsoft veteran and former Blizzard president knows "loyal Xbox gamers are mad" about exclusives launching on PS5 and Nintendo Switch but "that isn't going to change anything"
News Mike Ybarra says "embrace and move on"
Monster Hunter Wilds director defends its freakiest new monster from players hoping to hunt it to extinction: "There are people who find Rompopolo cute, I just want to say!"
News I'm still going to hunt the freak to extinction
Monster Hunter Wilds director thinks the weapon balance is much closer this time: "They're all hopefully nearly as viable as each other," but he's "confident, not cocky"
News That said, don't expect to find one weapon that slays all monsters
Elden Ring Nightreign network test starts with a stumble as PlayStation servers go down for maintenance just as it begins
News FromSoftware promises updates as they come
Elden Ring Nightreign director says it wasn't always a PvE battle royale game: "That's something that we tried and we thought it worked well, so it stuck"
News Where we droppin'?
Playing Elden Ring Nightreign solo sounds like a bad idea to me, but the director says "you don't have to babysit one another" and "you can all go your different ways"
News Y'all will play it solo anyway, won't you?
Everything announced at the PlayStation State of Play February 2025
Recap All the PS5 reveals, announcements, and news out of the major showcase
Elden Ring Nightreign network test times – here's when you can play the beta
News The beta for FromSoftware's next game runs from February 14 to February 17, but you can only play at these specific times
Elden Ring Nightreign launches this May, costs $40, and already has DLC cooking
News The Elden Ring Nightreign release date is closer than expected
The director of Monster Hunter Wilds was sneaking around the beta: "There are players out there who'd have no idea to this day that they were actually playing with the director"
News Thankfully, it was all for a good cause
Monster Hunter Wilds feels more like a traditional RPG, but the director says that just sort of happened: "It was a natural outcome of our other decisions that hopefully makes sense"
News Director Yuya Tokuda says Wilds makes sense for how Capcom wants to tell its story
After 3 years of playing Final Fantasy 14 "almost every single day," series creator Hironobu Sakaguchi reckons the MMO "might be the game that I've played the most in my life"
News Happens to the best of us
Elden Ring Nightreign's map will sometimes see "large-scale changes" to terrain including procedurally appearing volcanos, forests, and yes, swamps
News The FromSoftware tradition lives on
Zelda and Star Fox veteran says the Nintendo Switch has been a global success, but thinks the House of Mario still has "something" up its sleeve for the Switch 2
News All eyes on the Nintendo Switch 2 Direct in April
