Jesse Vitelli

Jesse Vitelli

Contributor

Jesse is a freelance games journalist with almost a decade of experience. He was the Associate Editor at Prima Games for three years and then moved into the world of freelancing where you might have seen his work at the likes of Game Informer, Kotaku, Inverse, and a few others. You can find him playing the critically acclaimed MMORPG Final Fantasy XIV or whatever hot new multiplayer game his friends are playing.

Latest articles by Jesse Vitelli

Nora Vasconellos grabs some air in the College stage in Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 + 4
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 + 4's new levels impress me as much as the rebuilt classics: "This needs to feel like we found this on a hard drive for THPS4 and we revitalized it"

By Jesse Vitelli Published

Hands-on Hands-on | Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 + 4 makes me feel young again, and plenty of new additions make Iron Galaxy's loving restoration even more exciting

Hands-on
Dying Light: The Beast is blending atmospheric horror with over the top co-op absurdity in 2025: "It's almost unachievable to keep the horror vibe and still have four players when one is teabagging a zombie"

By Jesse Vitelli Published

Big in 2025 Big in 2025 | Dying Light The Beast is building the tension in 2025 through its new locations: "we pull some strings to surprise with zombies"

Big in 2025
A zombie jumping at a player during the upcoming game, Dying Light: The Beast.
Dying Light: The Beast dev says the smaller spinoff is a dream game that "remotivated us to work" on the Dying Light series

By Jesse Vitelli Published

News Director Tymon Smektala talks about the DLC turned standalone title

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Ghost of Tsushima sequel Ghost of Yotei reveal trailer screenshot
Ghost of Yotei gives you guns and swords this time, and the devs want to avoid the "repetitive nature" of some open-world games

By Jesse Vitelli Published

News Bringing a gun to a sword fight

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Dragon Age: The Veilguard reveal trailer screenshot showing two of the companions, Varric and Harding
Dragon Age: The Veilguard only carries over 3 decisions from Inquisition, but luckily your romance option is one of them

By Jesse Vitelli Published

News Never forget your one true love

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Stellar Blade x Nier: Automata crossover DLC trailer screenshot
The Nier Automata devs are thrilled to be part of Stellar Blade: "We will gladly say yes to anything for money"

By Jesse Vitelli Published

News Cash rules everything around machines

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Zelda
Nintendo had a 9-day Zelda "boot camp" with devs "working from morning until night" to figure out what the heck they were going to do with Echoes of Wisdom

By Jesse Vitelli Published

News Protecting Hyrule from inconsistency

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An upclose picture of the Uth Duna and it's scaly skin
New Monster Hunter Wilds trailer reveals 3 more new monsters including the apparent flagship, and also fishing if you need a bit of a break

By Jesse Vitelli Published

News More monsters more problems

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The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
Tears of the Kingdom coach recreates the Olympic decathlon in Hyrule to force Link to compete and find out if Zelda's hero could take home the gold

By Jesse Vitelli Published

News Leveling stamina pays off

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A recreations of Lord of the Rings' Rivendell using Tiny Glade. The tall green towers and brownish rooftops can be seen.
Steam's chillest new city-builder pushed to its limits with 30-hour recreation of Lord of the Rings' Rivendell

By Jesse Vitelli Published

News What do your elf eyes see

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Henry Cavill
Noted Warhammer sicko Henry Cavill is loving Space Marine 2, and like many players can't beat it on the highest difficulty – "which I love"

By Jesse Vitelli Published

News Superman and Geralt wish they had Cavill's true heart

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Stardew Valley character known as Elliott, a man with long auburn hair and a red coat
Stardew Valley creator explains that releasing 1.6 update on PC first was to avoid "critical bugs," but "never intended for the delay to be this long"

By Jesse Vitelli Published

News Not the types of bugs found in the mines

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Zelda in The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom
Breath of the Wild's most notorious shrine exploit was key for Echoes of Wisdom, series producer says: "If this kind of solution isn't allowed, then it's not fun"

By Jesse Vitelli Published

News Games can be fun, as a treat

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Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero Gogeta
Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero voice actor says they "spent a full year recording" the game, which makes sense given that it has 182 playable characters

By Jesse Vitelli Published

News That's a lot of Krillin murder

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Project Artemis early render
PUBG creator says his massive new open-world game is like "building a Holodeck" where players can "create whatever experience they want"

By Jesse Vitelli Published

News Project Artemis is only the beginning

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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Dev of French JRPG that stunned at the Xbox Showcase "not hiding" influence of Persona and Final Fantasy 8, 9, and 10, but wants to "find our own direction"

By Jesse Vitelli Published

News Clair Obscur: Expeditions 33 is carving its own path

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A giant onster hulking in the center frame with our character grappling onto it
10 years later, the Monster Hunter-style action-RPG Freedom Wars is finally escaping Vita jail with a PS5 and Switch remaster

By Jesse Vitelli Published

News Freedom Wars Remastered is coming to PS5, Switch, and PC in January

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Cloud Strife
Kingdom Hearts and Final Fantasy veteran says he started making hot characters after a friend said he didn't want to be "ugly" in games, and then never stopped

By Jesse Vitelli Published

News Tetsuya Nomura thinks back on a crucial high school memory

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Laezel BG3 evil ending
Baldur's Gate 3 devs love the Ultima RPGs, and boss Swen Vincke says "never say never" on Larian reviving the series

By Jesse Vitelli Published

News So you're saying there's a chance

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The Elder Scrolls 6
Skyrim and Starfield veteran says it's "almost impossible" for The Elder Scrolls 6 to meet expectations

By Jesse Vitelli Published

News It's a high bar to clear

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a group of vampire hunters by candelight standing on top of a van
This new FPS is like Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines meets Borderlands and we can't wait to sink our teeth into it

By Jesse Vitelli Published

News Trust could be your new obsession

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GTA Online The Criminal Enterprises
GTA Online gets the anti-cheat support on PC it's sorely needed for the last 9 years, but Steam Deck players are paying the price

By Jesse Vitelli Published

News Public lobbies are so back

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Overthrown
Indie dev removes fall damage from their 6-player city builder "because it's annoying" and also because their mom said they can't

By Jesse Vitelli Published

News Overthrown is changing the game

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Core Keeper characters using tools to craft, fish, and fight
Core Keeper dev celebrates going "from being called a 'fat nerd' as a child, to making maps for Heroes 3 and WarCraft 3, to now having a game that has more than 3 million players"

By Jesse Vitelli Published

News You never know what might happen

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Concord in Amazon Prime Video's Secret Level trailer (2024)
Concord died with a perfect 69 players holding its Platinum Trophy, but a surprise 70th just came out of nowhere to make it less nice

By Jesse Vitelli Published

News Still nice, just not as

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